Re: Bootstrapping Guix on HPC without Root

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

Just read the script. I think this is actually the hard way of doing
it and 'guix pull' should not work if you are not on /gnu/store.

How about using proot (Ludo has some info here) and to bootstrap guix
instead with guix and configure the build system like 

   https://github.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/INSTALL.org#building-gnu-guix-from-source-using-guix

That way you get a reproducible build environment and then build guix
in a non-root path. I have not tried this yet, but I can try it this
weekend (I am on the road right now).

Pj.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 05:46:15PM -0700, Wm Salt Hale wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been attempting to install Guix on the University of
> Washington's HPC using a modified bootstrapping script based on
> https://github.com/pjotrp/nix-no-root
> 
> The script can currently be found here (to be forked and pushed to GH
> when verified as working):
> 
> https://communitydata.cc/~salt/guix-bootstrap.sh
> 
> 
> This produces a semi-working installation, it can spit out a version
> and spend a good deal of time trying to complete `guix pull`
> 
> The first run was logged via `|& tee -a`
> 
> https://communitydata.cc/~salt/guix_first_run.log
> 
> 
> As you can see, the build fails. Subsequent runs fail at the same
> point. I've tried a variety of debugging steps including: side-load
> libstdc++ directly from the Store with not effect, reduce number of
> cores daemon is allowed, and imitate linux-2.6.
> 
> Any assistance or direction would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> --
> Wm Salt Hale

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