bug#60694: Issue building derivations in 1.4.0

[Tom Parker-Shemilt <palfrey@tevps.net>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 03:35, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:

> How much memory (RAM) do you have available on the machine?
>
> Guix pull consumes close to 2 GiB peak, if I recall correctly.

That was with 4GB. Tried upping to 8GB and now getting a different
error. My channels.scm is

(list (channel
    (name 'guix)
    (url "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git")
    (commit "8e2f32cee982d42a79e53fc1e9aa7b8ff0514714"); tag v1.4.0
    (introduction (make-channel-introduction
   "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"     ;2020-05-26
   (openpgp-fingerprint
    "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))

==> virtualbox-iso: guix system: error: aborting reconfiguration
because commit 8e2f32cee982d42a79e53fc1e9aa7b8ff0514714 of channel
'guix' is not a descendant of 989a3916dc8967bcb7275f10452f89bc6c3389cc
==> virtualbox-iso: hint: Backtrace:
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/ui.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:    2275:7 19 (run-guix . _)
==> virtualbox-iso:   2238:10 18 (run-guix-command _ . _)
==> virtualbox-iso: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   1752:10 17 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/status.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:     835:3 16 (_)
==> virtualbox-iso:     815:4 15 (call-with-status-report _ _)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/scripts/system.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:    1281:4 14 (_)
==> virtualbox-iso: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   1752:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/store.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:    661:37 12 (thunk)
==> virtualbox-iso:    1300:8 11 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure
7f4224220990 at g…> …)
==> virtualbox-iso:   2170:25 10 (run-with-store #<store-connection
256.99 7f4224010780> …)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/scripts/system.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   1305:15  9 (_ _)
==> virtualbox-iso:     835:5  8 (perform-action reconfigure #<<image>
name: #f format:…> …)
==> virtualbox-iso: In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:     634:9  7 (for-each #<procedure 7f42203ef4e0 at
guix/scripts/sys…> …)
==> virtualbox-iso: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   1685:16  6 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
==> virtualbox-iso:   1685:16  5 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/ui.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:    802:16  4 (_ _)
==> virtualbox-iso:    311:42  3 (display-hint "Use
@option{--allow-downgrades} to forc…" …)
==> virtualbox-iso: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   1747:15  2 (with-exception-handler #<procedure
7f42203f2300 at ic…> …)
==> virtualbox-iso: In guix/build/syscalls.scm:
==> virtualbox-iso:   2299:35  1 (_)
==> virtualbox-iso:    2288:8  0 (terminal-window-size _)