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Subject: bug#19248: installation of 0.8 stops at guile prompt.
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:18:18 +0100
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To: th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za>
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th3kent <tembokm@mweb.co.za> skribis:

> hardware: 8-year-old hp nx6125 with 512mb memory and 60gb h.d.d
>
> first attempt at installation failed with the following:
>
> unionfs invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=3D0x...
> unionfs cpuset=3D/ mems_allowed=3D0
> [...]
> Out of memory: Kill process 2068 (guix) score 526 or sacrifice child
> Killed process 2068 (guix) total-vm:829080kB, anon-rss:201792kB, file-rss=
:0kB
> guix system: error: build failed: unexpected end-of-file
> 2470 operations

This is a sign that too much data was written to the unionfs that sits
on the root file system.

Could it be because you forgot to run =E2=80=98deco start cow-store /mnt=E2=
=80=99?=20=20

> second attempt at installation failed with "no permissions" when copying
> pata_* kernel modules to /gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/.

That is weird.  Do you remember at what point that happened?  Was it at
the end of the =E2=80=98guix system init config.scm /mnt=E2=80=99 run?

Files and directories under /gnu/store are meant to be immutable.

> on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stops
> at the guile-user prompt.  the backtrace shows the following:
>
> In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:
>   385:7  2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...
> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>   619:17  1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...

Does it show an actual error below that?

Could you post your OS config?

Thanks for the report!

Ludo=E2=80=99.