From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Knight Subject: Re: guix package: error: build failed: unable to fork: Invalid argument Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:53:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4700yhj.fsf@del.uriel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34754) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFuTg-0006tr-7T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:53:35 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFuTY-0004wN-Qj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:53:28 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:65258) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WFuTY-0004wJ-Hy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:53:20 -0500 Received: from del.localdomain ([79.159.175.68]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M2nfO-1X73KC0uzW-00sf8v for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:53:18 +0100 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 Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: > 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 Wonderful, setting these solved the problem. Now guix package -i hello works for me! Many thanks, David.