Re: error building grub during update

[John Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>]

I’m I’m sorry I assumed too much there. Guix pull will grab the newest changes if there are any which is exactly what I’m talking about. 

> On Mar 25, 2019, at 7:10 PM, nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org> wrote:
> 
> How do you rebase to a newer commit?
> 
> 
>> On 2019-03-24 11:47 pm, John Soo wrote:
>> Hi nightowl,
>> I had this error recently too. I think rebasing to a newer commit
>> fixed it for me. Since fixing the problem did involve reconfiguring
>> again It could be something else though. maybe something
>> nondeterministic in the test?
>> John
>>> On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:32 PM, nightowl <nightowl@members.fsf.org> wrote:
>>> I was attempting to update my system using guix pull followed by a system reconfigure, and I get the following error reported when it is attempting to build grub:
>>>   root@mypc ~# guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>>>   substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0%
>>>   building /gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv...
>>>   | 'check' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv' failed with exit code 1
>>>   build of /gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv failed
>>>   View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/9c/fzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv.bz2'.
>>>   guix system: error: build of `/gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv' failed
>>> I am just doing an update here, did not make any changes to the config file.  Could there be somthing wrong with my system, or is this something on the repository end and maybe I just need to try again at a later time?  Also, the last lines of the log file show the following:
>>>   legacy_password_test:
>>>   legacy_password_test: PASS
>>>   TEST FAILURE
>>>   Backtrace:
>>>              4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/wx3j5qg7gazg6gvamvl7may1gm9…")
>>>   In ice-9/eval.scm:
>>>      191:35  3 (_ _)
>>>   In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>>>      863:16  2 (every1 #<procedure 93b500 at /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvq…> …)
>>>   In /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvqbh7ysc9ay9slhijvmal-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
>>>      799:28  1 (_ _)
>>>       369:6  0 (check #:target _ #:make-flags _ #:tests? _ # _ # _ # _)
>>>   /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvqbh7ysc9ay9slhijvmal-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:369:6: In procedure check:
>>>   Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &invoke-error [program: "make" arguments: ("check" "-j" "2") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 7d6600>)'.