Using 'guix system disk-image' on a non-GuixSD OS

[Edouard KLEIN <edouardklein@gmail.com>]

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Hi all,

I do not know whether the "guix system disk-image" command is supposed to
work on a non GuixSD system.

If it is, then I'm running into an error while trying to create a disk from
a system declaration on my Arch Linux OS.

I run:
$ guix system disk-image --fallback config.scm

with config.scm copied at the end of this email.

I get the error message at the end of this emai.

I do not really know where to start looking. It appears that the error is
in the qemu package, which is necessary for grub. I tried removing the
bootloader part of the system declaration, as I can boot from the ext4
partition directly, but it seems necessary to have one such part in the OS
declaration.

Any help would be appreciated. In the meantime I'm running the command in a
GuixSD VM, but it's taking forever and it's way more cumbersome than being
able to run it on any system.

Thanks in advance,

Edouard.



---------------config.scm

;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "bare bones" setup, with no X11 display server.

(use-modules (gnu))
(use-service-modules networking ssh)
(use-package-modules screen ssh)

(operating-system
  (host-name "GuixSD_Base")
  (timezone "UTC")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  ;; Boot in "legacy" BIOS mode, assuming /dev/sdX is the
  ;; target hard disk, and "my-root" is the label of the target
  ;; root file system.
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                (target "/dev/sda")))
  (file-systems (cons (file-system
                        (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
                        (mount-point "/")
                        (type "ext4"))
                      %base-file-systems))

  ;; This is where user accounts are specified.  The "root"
  ;; account is implicit, and is initially created with the
  ;; empty password.
  (users (cons (user-account
                (name "edouard")
                (comment "boudoir")
                (group "users")

                ;; Adding the account to the "wheel" group
                ;; makes it a sudoer.  Adding it to "audio"
                ;; and "video" allows the user to play sound
                ;; and access the webcam.
                (supplementary-groups '("wheel"
                                        "audio" "video"))
                (home-directory "/home/edouard"))
               %base-user-accounts))

  ;; Globally-installed packages.
  (packages (append (map specification->package
                         '("tmux" "openssh"))
                    %base-packages))

  ;; Add services to the baseline: a DHCP client and
  ;; an SSH server.
  (services (cons* (dhcp-client-service)
                   (service openssh-service-type
                            (openssh-configuration
                             (authorized-keys
                              '(("edouard" ,(local-file "edouard.pub"))
                                ("root" ,(local-file "edouard.pub"))))
                       (permit-root-login 'without-password)
                             (port-number 22)))
                   %base-services)))
------------error message
c++
-I/gnu/store/pslvw8b4r0m5vmbz2ml7whcv2wbdpa57-pixman-0.34.0/include/pixman-1
-I/tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv-0/qemu-2.10.2/dtc/libfdt -pthread
-I/gnu/s[14/1947]
cagl47zbb6krfpmwm31m70s9pk00-glib-2.56.0/include/glib-2.0
-I/gnu/store/x9lfcagl47zbb6krfpmwm31m70s9pk00-glib-2.56.0/lib/glib-2.0/include
-DNCURSES_WIDECHAR -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_D
EFAULT_SOURCE -fPIE -DPIE -m64 -mcx16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wall -Wundef
-Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-p
rototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv  -Wendif-labels
-Wno-missing-include-dirs -Wempty-body -Wnested-externs -Wformat-security
-Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wignore
d-qualifiers -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition -Wtype-limits
-fstack-protector-strong
 -I/gnu/store/8679cp88yg5jrq2q1944xf14ibyp1kp7-libpng-1.6.34/include/libpn
g16 -I/tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv-0/qemu-2.10.2/tests -O2
-U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2  -Wl,--warn-common -Wl,-z,relro
-Wl,-z,now -pie -m64 -Wl,--warn-co
mmon -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -pie -m64 -lrt -o tests/test-replication
tests/test-replication.o block.o blockjob.o qemu-io-cmds.o replication.o
block/raw-format.o block/qcow.o
 block/vdi.o block/vmdk.o block/cloop.o block/bochs.o block/vpc.o
block/vvfat.o block/dmg.o block/qcow2.o block/qcow2-refcount.o
block/qcow2-cluster.o block/qcow2-snapshot.o
block/qcow2-cache.o block/qcow2-bitmap.o block/qed.o block/qed-l2-cache.o
block/qed-table.o block/qed-cluster.o block/qed-check.o block/vhdx.o
block/vhdx-endian.o block/vhdx-
log.o block/quorum.o block/parallels.o block/blkdebug.o block/blkverify.o
block/blkreplay.o block/block-backend.o block/snapshot.o block/qapi.o
block/file-posix.o block/linux
-aio.o block/null.o block/mirror.o block/commit.o block/io.o
block/throttle-groups.o block/nbd.o block/nbd-client.o block/sheepdog.o
block/accounting.o block/dirty-bitmap.o b
lock/write-threshold.o block/backup.o block/replication.o block/crypto.o
nbd/server.o nbd/client.o nbd/common.o block/dmg-bz2.o io/channel.o
io/channel-buffer.o io/channel-co
mmand.o io/channel-file.o io/channel-socket.o io/channel-tls.o
io/channel-watch.o io/channel-websock.o io/channel-util.o io/dns-resolver.o
io/task.o crypto/init.o crypto/hash
.o crypto/hash-glib.o crypto/hmac.o crypto/hmac-glib.o crypto/aes.o
crypto/desrfb.o crypto/cipher.o crypto/tlscreds.o crypto/tlscredsanon.o
crypto/tlscredsx509.o crypto/tlsse
ssion.o crypto/secret.o crypto/random-platform.o crypto/pbkdf.o
crypto/ivgen.o crypto/ivgen-essiv.o crypto/ivgen-plain.o
crypto/ivgen-plain64.o crypto/afsplit.o crypto/xts.o
crypto/block.o crypto/block-qcow.o crypto/block-luks.o qom/object.o
qom/container.o qom/qom-qobject.o qom/object_interfaces.o tests/iothread.o
libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a  -
lz -laio -lbz2 -lm
-L/gnu/store/x9lfcagl47zbb6krfpmwm31m70s9pk00-glib-2.56.0/lib -lgthread-2.0
-pthread -lglib-2.0  -lz -lz  -lutil
MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))} gtester -k
--verbose -m=quick tests/test-replication
TEST: tests/test-replication... (pid=14861)
  /replication/primary/read:                                           OK
  /replication/primary/write:                                          OK
  /replication/primary/start:                                          OK
  /replication/primary/stop:                                           OK
  /replication/primary/do_checkpoint:                                  OK
  /replication/primary/get_error_all:                                  OK
  /replication/secondary/read:                                         OK
  /replication/secondary/write:                                        OK
  /replication/secondary/start:                                        **
ERROR:tests/test-replication.c:117:test_blk_write: assertion failed:
(async_ret == 0)
FAIL
GTester: last random seed: R02Sb499c9e89b18bb967dd59acad1b2aaa8
(pid=14865)
  /replication/secondary/stop:                                         OK
  /replication/secondary/do_checkpoint:                                OK
  /replication/secondary/get_error_all:                                OK
FAIL: tests/test-replication
make: ***
[/tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv-0/qemu-2.10.2/tests/Makefile.include:849:
check-tests/test-replication] Error 1

Test suite failed, dumping logs.
Backtrace:
           4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/5v4cdxg9m4x6hax86g1q7jw5bch…")
In ice-9/eval.scm:
   191:35  3 (_ _)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
    640:9  2 (for-each #<procedure a06400 at /gnu/store/f95ghy8mx00…> …)
In
/gnu/store/f95ghy8mx00fc22nrvswvnpqlfdkf2nk-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
   799:31  1 (_ _)
    369:6  0 (check #:target _ #:make-flags _ #:tests? _ # _ # _ # _)

/gnu/store/f95ghy8mx00fc22nrvswvnpqlfdkf2nk-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") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f]
986a40>)'.
builder for
`/gnu/store/5q7ixx1qjf7msamr052jc5jyfilhpsai-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv'
failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation
`/gnu/store/5i56cl8c6608azkn67qy54nf2kqxfhkl-grub-2.02.drv': 1 dependencies
couldn't be built
guix system: error: build failed: build of
`/gnu/store/5i56cl8c6608azkn67qy54nf2kqxfhkl-grub-2.02.drv' failed

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