Daemon fails to create build environment when /etc/nsswitch.conf is missing

applying 3 grafts for

/gnu/store/cdnrvbr03nhg8ly1msi65lz4m8k5l3cl-curl-7.76.0.drv ...

building /gnu/store/lam6h0qnr7bj7mr5hlix4glnf5f2wymk-zip-3.0.drv...

Backtrace:

          13 (primitive-load

"/gnu/store/cb3nbg7bw5g483i71qs62jv1vy0gg00z-compute-guix-derivation")

In ice-9/eval.scm:

    155:9 12 (_ _)

    159:9 11 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<directory (guile-u?>

?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?) ?))

In ice-9/boot-9.scm:

    152:2 10 (with-fluid* _ _ _)

    152:2  9 (with-fluid* _ _ _)

In ./guix/store.scm:

  2066:24  8 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7f8c78b4ebe0> _

#:guile-for-build _ #:system _ #:target _)

   1900:8  7 (_ _)

In ./guix/gexp.scm:

   256:18  6 (_ _)

   1137:2  5 (_ _)

   1003:2  4 (_ _)

    849:4  3 (_ _)

In ./guix/store.scm:

  1948:12  2 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7f8c78b4ebe0>)

   1362:5  1 (map/accumulate-builds #<store-connection 256.99

7f8c78b4ebe0> _ _)

  1373:15  0 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7f8c78b4ebe0> _ _)

./guix/store.scm:1373:15: ERROR:

  1. &store-protocol-error:

      message: "while setting up the build environment: getting

attributes of path `/etc/nsswitch.conf': No such file or directory"

      status: 1

guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program

'/gnu/store/cb3nbg7bw5g483i71qs62jv1vy0gg00z-compute-guix-derivation'

failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version:

"82543e9649da2da9a5285ede4ec4f718fd740fcb"; system: "x86_64-linux";

host version: "1.2.0"; pull-version: 1).

Please report it by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>

Hi,

Mikko Räsänen <mikko@a22.dk> skribis:

[...]

It looks as though /etc/nsswitch.conf disappeared while ‘guix pull’ was

running. Could it be what happened?

The daemon currently assumes that this file exists. We could remove

that assumption since I think glibc is happy when it doesn’t exist, but

that still looks weird.

Thanks,

Ludo’.

I have no idea what happened. Only that I was encouraged to send the bug

report - so I did.

On 2021-04-16 22:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

Mikko Räsänen via Bug reports for GNU Guix schreef op ma 19-04-2021 om 03:20 [+0200]:

Does the file /etc/nsswitch.conf exist on your system?

Also, what distribution are you using? Guix System, or a foreign distro

like Debian, Fedora, ...?

Greetings,

Maxime.

retitle 47760 Daemon fails to create build environment when /etc/nsswitch.conf is missing

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Hi,

I can confirm this issue on a foreign install with alpine base. Alpine

do not provide /etc/nsswitch.conf file by default, I have found plenty

docker/go issues about it. I think alpine should provide this file,

OTOH guix-daemon should not fail just because this one is missing.