Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install

My system administrator just installed guix for me thanks to it being so easy on Ubuntu.

To show it off, I wanted to make a quick demonstration to a colleague on how it makes it easy to create a reproducible python environment using `guix shell`. That command didn't seem to exist on the version of guix available from ubuntu (1.3.0). Not anticipating any problems, I thought I just needed to run `guix pull`.

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me@ubuntu:~$ guix pull

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

Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 8548ba5 (45,920 new commits)...

Building from this channel:

...

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That errored out for me at the "computing derivation" stage the first time I ran it.

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./guix/store.scm:1419:15: ERROR:

1. &store-protocol-error:

message: "`/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly"

status: 1

guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/4fcbgpasw95hrbz7n7pnx6wnsc174vds-compute-guix-derivation'

failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "8548ba5847417eabe14aa08fa9861f91743bd3a1"; system: "x86_64-linux";

host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1).

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

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Thankfully, running `guix pull` again immediately afterwards worked. This left me with the following familiar output.

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building profile with 1 package...

hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running:

GUIX_PROFILE="/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"

. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"'.

hint: After setting `PATH', run `hash guix' to make sure your shell refers to `/home/u548962/.config/guix/current/bin/guix'.

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Being that this is a foreign distro, I thought I needed to run the hint lines to get the updated guix executable in my current terminal.

Instead, now I see:

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me@ubuntu:~$ GUIX_PROFILE="/home/me/.config/guix/current"

me@ubuntu:~$ . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

me@ubuntu:~$ hash guix

me@ubuntu:~$ guix shell --help

*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated

Aborted (core dumped)

u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix --help

*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated

Aborted (core dumped)

u548962@mdu20prst01:~$ guix

*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated

Aborted (core dumped)

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I was hopeful, but now the guix command does nothing at all.

General Business

merge 60139 60141

thanks

merge 60140 60139

I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello

$ {{source the profile}}

$ hello

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

General Business

My system administrator let me know that the terminal I was presented with was sandboxed by RStudio Server (not running on Guix) and that this was responsible for causing the error.

I was able to run the hello command from an unsandboxed shell. I was also able to pull the latest version of guix using the same method.

General Business

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 5:28 PM

To: 60141@debbugs.gnu.org

I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello

$ {{source the profile}}

$ hello

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

General Business

Hi,

"Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews@dow.com> skribis:

Thanks for reporting back. My guess would be that RStudio Server was

setting ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH’, which in turn caused ‘guix’ to use the wrong

shared library at run-time, leading to that segfault.

I gather we can close this issue now, thanks.

Ludo’.

tags 60141 notabug

close 60141

quit