Mark H Weaver writes: > On my i686 GuixSD machine, the following command consistently fails: > > mhw@jojen:~$ guix download file:///home/mhw/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz > guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe > > The file is 2071190200 bytes, which is about 73 MiB less than 2 GiB. > I have 2 GiB of RAM and 4 GiB of swap. > > My guix client is v0.10.0-1899-g0f971a0. My guix-daemon is 0.10.0. I tried adding the same file using 'add-to-store' directly from the REPL. 'guile' exited with status code 141, without printing an error message: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- mhw@jojen:~$ guix/pre-inst-env guile GNU Guile 2.0.11 Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix) scheme@(guile-user)> (define s (open-connection)) scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store s "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz" #f "sha256" "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz") mhw@jojen:~$ echo $? 141 mhw@jojen:~$ ls -l texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 mhw mhw 2071190200 Jul 20 01:08 texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Mark