From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sree Harsha Totakura Subject: Re: guix package: error: build failed: unable to fork: Invalid argument Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:42:14 +0100 Message-ID: <5303D3B6.9060104@totakura.in> References: <87y5181j1i.fsf@del.uriel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFsQo-0007J7-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:42:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFsQi-0005OI-VO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:42:22 -0500 Received: from mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.8]:49238 helo=smtp1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFsQi-0005Nd-Om for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:42:16 -0500 Received: (Authenticated sender: totakura) by mail.in.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EDA3E24028F for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:42:14 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87y5181j1i.fsf@del.uriel> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 02/18/2014 05:29 PM, David Knight wrote: > it downloads about 277M of files (up to guile-2.0.9.tar.xz) into > /nix/store then errors with "guix package: error: build failed: unable > to fork: Invalid argument". Rerunning the command gives the same error > message. It is common to install those many files. They come from bootstrap packages and are required. > > The same error shows on two different distros (LFS and Gentoo on i686), > and with both Guix 0.5 and cloned from git. Guix 0.5 'make check' > passes all tests, and the git version from today passes all tests except > 'topologically-sorted, more difficult' in store.scm. Other guix package > commands such a --search= and --list-available seem to work as expected. I am suspecting that this is a problem with you kernel configuration. Do you have the namespaces available (the following options) in your config? CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y CONFIG_UTS_NS=y CONFIG_IPC_NS=y CONFIG_USER_NS=y CONFIG_PID_NS=y CONFIG_NET_NS=y -- Sree