Re: Hurd bootstrap breaks guix building binutils-boot0@2.34

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I did build the bootstrap binaries some time ago. They were corrupt. As well as
the pre-built ones that were available at 
http://berlin.guix.gnu.org/guix/bootstrap/i586-gnu/20190508

Down-grading from guile-2.2 to guile-2.0 did not improve the situation.

Now I have a project to cross-build Hurd from a GNU/Linux box: hurd-cross, using
the latest versions of the gnumach, hurd, glibc, gcc, etc. The built Hurd boots
and runs fine in a VM :) The project will soon be available on Savannah. From
there I will again cross-build the bootstrap binaries for Hurd, in due time
though. (Other packages, like ones not yet available natively, can also be
cross-built. That's an interesting extension.)

See 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-08/msg00198.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00000.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00014.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00225.html
for some of the efforts to make Guix work on GNU/Hurd.

Thanks!
(and sorry for top-posting)

On Sat, 2020-02-29 at 10:36 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been looking at the recent work of Efraim and others wrt the Hurd
> bootstrap.  On the Hurd, make-boot0 v4.3 did not work for me so I
> reverted to make-boot0 v4.1 for now.  Now I'm stuck on building
> binutils-boot0
> 
>     ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) binutils-
> boot0)'
> 
> It almost fully builds but fails with this error
> 
>     phase `compress-documentation' succeeded after 0.4 seconds
>     error: cannot kill processes for uid `999': Operation not permitted
>     guix build: error: cannot kill processes for uid `999': failed with exit
> code 1
> 
> after which my Hurd setup is broken; I haven't been able to build a new
> package and had to reinstall my Hurd VM.  This error is reproducible for
> me however: I tried again and broke my Hurd setup in exact the same way.
> Any ideas what may be going wrong and how to fix this?
> 
> I am now looking to revert bootstrap-guile to v2.0
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-09/msg00106.html)
> and possibly binutils-boot0 to v2.32.
> 
> Find my notes attached for how I am setting up Hurd development for Guix.
> 
> Greetings,
> janneke
>