Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:
>>
>>> On Mon 07 Aug 2017 22:08, Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I've caught a couple other elusive grafting errors:
>>>>
>>>> grafting '/gnu/store/ccw7wzh9rbflc0fl968dbj2x0x9dn4y5-chromium-60.0.3112.90' -> '/gnu/store/b3f2d6l1c546xwcv4hg8619qh87cixhb-chromium-60.0.3112.90'...
>>>> ERROR: Wrong type to apply: "der */\n  max-width: 638px;\n  min" 
>>>
>>> This looks like a Guile 2.2 GC error somehow :-(
>>
>> Marius, Leo: was the failure on ‘core-updates’, where Guile 2.2 is used?
>> (On ‘master’ 2.0 is used to build derivations.)
>
> Pretty sure I've seen these on 'master' at least once, but the majority
> of grafting errors have been on 'core-updates'.
>
> However, I haven't had any since (very) recently, sometime between
> 09ec5a0f0c..2718a9cd09 in my local "fork".  ed464f48ef maybe?
>
> Or I've just been lucky.

Most likely just lucky, new grafting failure today.

I've noticed they are more likely to occur when the host system is busy.
Grafting a large package such as 'texlive' is almost guaranteed to fail
on a fully-utilized machine.

Maybe we should switch back to 2.0 for the time being?