guix pull: guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1, In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

> I'm having trouble pulling on a aarch64-linux machine, both from master

> and core-updates-frozen, and they fail with similar output.

> \builder for `/gnu/store/g55hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1

> build of /gnu/store/g55hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv failed

> View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/g5/5hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv.bz2'.

> cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pdbv64gcy97cm3xw9iwnxzd6npazvp5s-guix-4fd6aabea.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

> cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pa2apwy1nypkxggh3p75yi9rmghn0xjy-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

> guix time-machine: error: build of `/gnu/store/pa2apwy1nypkxggh3p75yi9rmghn0xjy-profile.drv' failed

>

> cbaines@hatysa ~$ bzcat /var/log/guix/drvs/g5/5hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv.bz2

> Backtrace:

> 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/h9n0ssml2v8j9bzxxx1zjj0swn3?")

> In ice-9/eval.scm:

> 619:8 3 (_ #f)

> In ice-9/ftw.scm:

> 505:39 2 (loop _ _ #(66306 8660889 16749 2 0 0 0 4096 # 1 # # ?) ?)

> In guix/build/utils.scm:

> 345:27 1 (_ "/gnu/store/4wfkj6z151b97f54415g39apc58chsx7-guix-t?" ?)

> In unknown file:

> 0 (copy-file "/gnu/store/4wfkj6z151b97f54415g39apc58chsx?" ?)

>

> ERROR: In procedure copy-file:

> In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

> Hi,

>

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

>

>> I'm having trouble pulling on a aarch64-linux machine, both from master

>> and core-updates-frozen, and they fail with similar output.

>

> FWIW I’ve successfully upgraded on aarch64-linux to current ‘master’:

>

> ludo@overdrive1 ~$ guix describe

> Generation 12 Dec 10 2021 14:24:21 (current)

> guix 18c406d

> repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git

> branch: master

> commit: 18c406df973d24fa8adb9cdaf58d73769da44937

> ludo@overdrive1 ~$ uname -om

> aarch64 GNU/Linux

>

>

> [...]

>

>> \builder for `/gnu/store/g55hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv' failed with exit code 1

>> build of /gnu/store/g55hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv failed

>> View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/g5/5hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv.bz2'.

>> cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pdbv64gcy97cm3xw9iwnxzd6npazvp5s-guix-4fd6aabea.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

>> cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/pa2apwy1nypkxggh3p75yi9rmghn0xjy-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built

>> guix time-machine: error: build of `/gnu/store/pa2apwy1nypkxggh3p75yi9rmghn0xjy-profile.drv' failed

>>

>> cbaines@hatysa ~$ bzcat /var/log/guix/drvs/g5/5hf0qbs3yhwrvi3lq5v4xaj1bw9mrd-guix-manual.drv.bz2

>> Backtrace:

>> 4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/h9n0ssml2v8j9bzxxx1zjj0swn3?")

>> In ice-9/eval.scm:

>> 619:8 3 (_ #f)

>> In ice-9/ftw.scm:

>> 505:39 2 (loop _ _ #(66306 8660889 16749 2 0 0 0 4096 # 1 # # ?) ?)

>> In guix/build/utils.scm:

>> 345:27 1 (_ "/gnu/store/4wfkj6z151b97f54415g39apc58chsx7-guix-t?" ?)

>> In unknown file:

>> 0 (copy-file "/gnu/store/4wfkj6z151b97f54415g39apc58chsx?" ?)

>>

>> ERROR: In procedure copy-file:

>> In procedure copy-file: Permission denied

>

> Are you still experiencing this?

> If yes, could you share the .drv file name and maybe strace -f the child

> guix-daemon process to get the file names that the backtrace is

> hiding?

> I've had a go at debugging this further, I'm not confident I've found

> the relevant part of the strace output, but I think it could be this bit:

>

> 14403 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/vcgx18jbb4dyk8kxx2gn8046jsavlgf8-guix-translated-texinfo/guix.de.texi", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=925279, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0

> 14403 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/vcgx18jbb4dyk8kxx2gn8046jsavlgf8-guix-translated-texinfo/guix.de.texi", O_RDONLY) = 15

> 14403 fstat(15, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=925279, ...}) = 0

> 14403 openat(AT_FDCWD, "./guix.de.texi", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0444) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

> There's more information below. I wonder if this could somehow be

> connected to guix.de.texi being both in the -doc store item, and

> -guix-translated-texinfo. Reading the builder, it looks like it copies

> it first from -doc, then again from -guix-translated-texinfo, and that's

> the point at which it fails?

> Hi,

>

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

>

>> I've had a go at debugging this further, I'm not confident I've found

>> the relevant part of the strace output, but I think it could be this bit:

>>

>> 14403 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD,

>> "/gnu/store/vcgx18jbb4dyk8kxx2gn8046jsavlgf8-guix-translated-texinfo/guix.de.texi",

>> {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=925279, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) =

>> 0

>> 14403 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/gnu/store/vcgx18jbb4dyk8kxx2gn8046jsavlgf8-guix-translated-texinfo/guix.de.texi", O_RDONLY) = 15

>> 14403 fstat(15, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=925279, ...}) = 0

>> 14403 openat(AT_FDCWD, "./guix.de.texi", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0444) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

>

> It could be that ./guix.de.texi already exists and is read-only, or that

> “.” is read-only.

>

>> There's more information below. I wonder if this could somehow be

>> connected to guix.de.texi being both in the -doc store item, and

>> -guix-translated-texinfo. Reading the builder, it looks like it copies

>> it first from -doc, then again from -guix-translated-texinfo, and that's

>> the point at which it fails?

>

> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from

> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not

> checked in.

>

> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine

> checkout of Guix with that extra file?

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from

>> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not

>> checked in.

>>

>> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine

>> checkout of Guix with that extra file?

>

> That looks like the issue.

> That outputs 259 other files as well. Maybe it's worth running git clean

> on the cache directory, or only pulling files in from the cache

> directory if they're tracked by git.

> Hi,

>

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

>

>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>

> [...]

>

>>> Ah yes, that looks like a problem: “doc”, which is taken straight from

>>> the checkout, normally does not contain *.LANG.texi; those files are not

>>> checked in.

>>>

>>> Could it be that ~/.cache/guix/checkouts contains a non-pristine

>>> checkout of Guix with that extra file?

>>

>> That looks like the issue.

>

> Ah, good to know.

>

> [...]

>

>> That outputs 259 other files as well. Maybe it's worth running git clean

>> on the cache directory, or only pulling files in from the cache

>> directory if they're tracked by git.

>

> (guix git) does a hard reset in ‘switch-to-ref’, which is normally

> enough as long as the user doesn’t manually fiddle with the checkout.

>

> Should we add something there?

> I don't know enough about these Git operations, but I guess that's

> probably fine if things happen normally. I do wonder if it's possible to

> get in to states where there are some untracked files left around if

> operations are cancelled or stop part way though.