Re: Guix on aarch64

[Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>]

Hi Benjamin,

Benjamin Slade <beoram@gmail.com> writes:

> Though, unfortunately, when I try `guix package -i hello` (or any other
> package), I get the following error:
>
> ````
> ............
> /gnu/store/qzdabl7b02cp4xsfkz4znxpy482gsgh8-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: /gnu/store/4ka60wq7j51ywy7pmpwy7fqqnzk12ay6-binutils-2.30.tar.xz: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes
> /gnu/store/qzdabl7b02cp4xsfkz4znxpy482gsgh8-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: Child died with signal 9
> /gnu/store/qzdabl7b02cp4xsfkz4znxpy482gsgh8-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[...]
> ./guix/build/utils.scm:616:6: In procedure invoke:
> ./guix/build/utils.scm:616:6: Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &invoke-error [program: "/gnu/store/qzdabl7b02cp4xsfkz4znxpy482gsgh8-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/tar" arguments: ("cvf" "/gnu/store/4ka60wq7j51ywy7pmpwy7fqqnzk12ay6-binutils-2.30.tar.xz" "--use-compress-program=/gnu/store/qzdabl7b02cp4xsfkz4znxpy482gsgh8-bootstrap-binaries-0/bin/xz --threads=0" "--mtime=@0" "--owner=root:0" "--group=root:0" "--sort=name" "binutils-2.30") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] d7ff00>)'.
> builder for `/gnu/store/8bkfchbibkfflp72vvdf39hdbv362vm7-binutils-2.30.tar.xz.drv' failed with exit code 1

I looked in the GNU tar source code to see what could produce that
message during archive creation.  The message would seem to indicate
that an error occurred during a kernel-level 'write' call to the archive
file.  The code is written to retry in case of short writes or EINTR.

What kind of filesystems are running on /tmp and /gnu?  How much free
space is on those filesystems?

       Mark