Re: Assertion failure while building libtool

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

Hi Ludovic,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I did a clean rebuild of guix from git master (make clean; ./bootstrap;
>> make), and then attempted to upgrade all packages.  After several
>> successful builds, the daemon printed this:
>>
>> guix-daemon: nix/libstore/local-store.cc:526: void
>> nix::canonicalisePathMetaData_(const Path&, uid_t,
>> nix::InodesSeen&): Assertion `!((((st.st_mode)) & 0170000) ==
>> (0040000))' failed.
>
> Yes, this is a daemon bug pending a fix:
> <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122>.
>
> In the meantime, you can hopefully work around it by deleting the
> already-present output–i.e., by running either:
>
>   guix gc --delete /nix/store/wbsypglflcy7fi08h4finffjy9mqzh12-libtool-2.4.2

This command fails because there are still references:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mhw@tines:~/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix gc --delete /nix/store/wbsypglflcy7fi08h4finffjy9mqzh12-libtool-2.4.2
finding garbage collector roots...
removing stale temporary roots file `/usr/local/var/nix/temproots/18019'
guix gc: error: build failed: cannot delete path `/nix/store/wbsypglflcy7fi08h4finffjy9mqzh12-libtool-2.4.2' since it is still alive
mhw@tines:~/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix gc --references /nix/store/wbsypglflcy7fi08h4finffjy9mqzh12-libtool-2.4.2
/nix/store/gk8dpqzml7n6ah0nxi59hrpwjaqqml64-gcc-4.7.3
/nix/store/wbsypglflcy7fi08h4finffjy9mqzh12-libtool-2.4.2
/nix/store/ybdv89csf4sn7wbmgj9kfjjk1b0mhrlb-glibc-2.17
/nix/store/zch43a56qdchdw0xm3lwpr8ydg8ksx25-bash-4.2
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

> or
>
>   guix gc --delete /nix/store/g1wl3hkiykindg7xjl05r57vim6jsyki-libtool-2.4.2-bin

This command succeeds, but does not solve the problem for me.

Any other suggestions?

     Thanks,
       Mark