Testing 0.8

Testing 0.8

[Adam Pribyl]

I am testing the 0.8 Guix release as announced. Installation went pretty 
smooth from USB. Noticed network devices are now renamed to "unique" 
names. Fine, but one should be careful when starting networking and "eth0" 
is missing.

Just tried
guix package -i mc

to test it. Without substitutes this fails after long build at dependency 
"perl after 3600 seconds of silent". There is plenty of disk space this 
time (200GB) but I am probably still missing something essential to use 
guix as source based distro.

From substitutes "mc" installs OK.

Regards

Adam Pribyl

Re: Testing 0.8

[Ludovic Courtès]

Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:

> I am testing the 0.8 Guix release as announced. Installation went
> pretty smooth from USB. Noticed network devices are now renamed to
> "unique" names. Fine, but one should be careful when starting
> networking and "eth0" is missing.

Right, we should probably add a note in the manual.

> Just tried
> guix package -i mc
>
> to test it. Without substitutes this fails after long build at
> dependency "perl after 3600 seconds of silent". There is plenty of
> disk space this time (200GB) but I am probably still missing something
> essential to use guix as source based distro.
>
> From substitutes "mc" installs OK.

It sounds that either mc or one of its dependencies deadlocks,
presumably in a non-deterministic fashion.

Can you still see which build failed exactly?  You may be able to find
it out using “bzgrep -r silence /var/log/guix/drvs/”.

Thanks for testing!

Ludo’.

Re: Testing 0.8

[Adam Pribyl]

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On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> skribis:
>
>> I am testing the 0.8 Guix release as announced. Installation went
>> pretty smooth from USB. Noticed network devices are now renamed to
>> "unique" names. Fine, but one should be careful when starting
>> networking and "eth0" is missing.
>
> Right, we should probably add a note in the manual.
>
>> Just tried
>> guix package -i mc
>>
>> to test it. Without substitutes this fails after long build at
>> dependency "perl after 3600 seconds of silent". There is plenty of
>> disk space this time (200GB) but I am probably still missing something
>> essential to use guix as source based distro.
>>
>> From substitutes "mc" installs OK.
>
> It sounds that either mc or one of its dependencies deadlocks,
> presumably in a non-deterministic fashion.
>
> Can you still see which build failed exactly?  You may be able to find
> it out using “bzgrep -r silence /var/log/guix/drvs/”.

Either it is rewritten by subsequent installs or not there at all as I did 
not found any.
BTW: bzgrep does not work recursively on my 0.8 install, have to use 
find..

> Thanks for testing!
>
> Ludo’.

Adam Pribyl