crash running 'guix pull'

I tried running 'guix pull' on a VPS running guix and it crashed. The

output said to email the log to this address, so I am.

I'd appreciate any pointers towards a solution; I did a bit of googling

and didn't see how to get unstuck.

Thanks!

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Peter Bhat Harkins - https://malaprop.org

-bash-5.0# time guix pull -v 1

Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...

Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 386adb6 (505 new commits)...

Building from this channel:

guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 386adb6

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

building /gnu/store/vgv0hn6b3l03wr8n7gkr1w1544av3qch-module-import.drv...

building /gnu/store/yh914wm3zydmmymks3dhavznlkn3g7g1-module-import.drv...

building /gnu/store/lwnsg6xzwjrmqh4v6bhhkipg86zmhw8b-module-import-compiled.drv...

building /gnu/store/d53a8rwws8sjfyl55dzknr8w0ywpri1g-module-import-compiled.drv...

building /gnu/store/z9nsgksn1wv1p189sarxw2lp9d498bbv-compute-guix-derivation.drv...

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

glibc-2.33 8.2MiB 5.6MiB/s 00:00 [ ] 3.1%guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/7z9q1plaj7f0pa4znz350aa9qg969r80-compute-guix-derivation'

failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "386adb6df0e00e7170df0cdfaf0e04c38d0f3e11"; system: "x86_64-linux";

host version: "6417b97c7e10de8592ac9fda15774ee711d3dc25"; pull-version: 1).

Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.

real 9m20.124s

user 4m28.800s

sys 0m2.990s

Peter Bhat Harkins schreef op vr 18-03-2022 om 13:56 [-0500]:

These kind of problems are often transient and can be resolved by

trying again.

Anyways, I have a patch to make "guix pull" print more descriptive

error messages (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50238),which should in the

future help with investigating the cause of these failures, but it

needs a little more work ... (maybe tomorrow)

Greetings,

Maxime.

Unfortunately, I have tried four or five times over the last three weeks

and always gotten this crash.

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Peter Bhat Harkins - https://malaprop.org

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 02:01, Peter Bhat Harkins <peter@push.cx> wrote:

Do you have enough free space on your VPS? Or enough RAM memory?

Cheers,

simon

How much is required? I don't see it documented in the man page or manual.

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 20:13, Peter Bhat Harkins <peter@push.cx> wrote:

Well, it depends. :-) Is it because the free space or because of the

RAM? I mean, what is the value of the free space? Have you already

succeed with "guix pull" or is it the first time you are running it?

Cheers,

simon

The VPS was created almost two years ago, and 'guix pull' was run many

times, though not in the last few months.

Is there documentation anywhere of what system resources a guix system,

or this particular command, requires? Is there any method for

estimating? It sounds like you're suggesting the requirements have

changed over time. Do running guix systems require more disk and RAM as

they age, or does this undocumented requirement also apply to new

systems?

At this point I'm less concerned about this individual crash bug and

more concerned that running any guix system is unsustainable.

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 16:23, Peter Bhat Harkins <peter@push.cx> wrote:

Did you garbage collect “guix gc”? For instance with the option ’-F 5G’

or this option ’-d 9m’.

Because if you pull again and again, the store is growing. And

depending on the size your VPS, you can reach the limit of the available

space.

No, I am not suggesting a change. I am trying to identify why your

setup is failing and emit hypothesis.

You are drawing hard conclusions from some hypothesis when they are just

hypothesis.

Over this 2 years, how many times did you garbage collect?

Cheers,

simon