Harry Prevor skribis: > On 2016-05-16 17:10, ludo@gnu.org wrote: >>> I tried to install emacs on guix recently, and I actually got a kernel >>> panic in the middle of installing so I had to do a hard reboot. >> >> Are you installing GuixSD, or are you installing Guix on another >> distro? > > I'm trying to install emacs on GuixSD, which is running on a Thinkpad > X200. [...] >> Can you try: >> >> guix build emacs --substitute-urls=http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org > > It seems to have succeeded: > > @ build-succeeded > /gnu/store/p5bhpqf6zj1kg55p4gyndrppswbskh8k-emacs-24.5.drv - > /gnu/store/35nvlacqcl3wv5al5lj3077h0hx4bn2q-emacs-24.5 > > After doing this, I tried doing "guix package -i emacs" again, and it > installed successfully! Thank you for your help; unfortunately I don't > know exactly what fixed this but I'd be happy to continue debugging if > it's of use to someone. Frustrating, but a good outcome. ;-) It could be that the thing was using http://hydra.gnu.org, and that this server was overloaded and dropped the connection, or something. In 0.10.0 we switched the default substitute server to https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org, a mirror that is much faster than hydra.gnu.org. If you reconfigure GuixSD from a recent Guix, GuixSD’s guix-daemon service will use mirror.hydra.gnu.org. Thanks, Ludo’.