From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Fri Jul 24 09:06:57 2020 Received: (at 41362) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Jul 2020 13:06:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47280 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jyxPd-0005H5-GC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:06:57 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45636) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jyxPa-0005Gn-2i for 41362@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:06:55 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51612) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jyxPU-0006dW-CG; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:06:48 -0400 Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=49568 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jyxPT-0003j8-Na; Fri, 24 Jul 2020 09:06:48 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Mayeul Cantan Subject: Re: bug#41362: error when running guix pull on i686-linux References: <87o8q620gm.fsf@gnu.org> <874kpzi9b2.fsf@gnu.org> <98ab03d7-c172-03bb-481e-0021f3af30fe@cantan.eu> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 7 Thermidor an 228 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:06:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <98ab03d7-c172-03bb-481e-0021f3af30fe@cantan.eu> (Mayeul Cantan's message of "Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:25:39 +0200") Message-ID: <87a6zp9i55.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 41362 Cc: 41362@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hello, Mayeul Cantan skribis: > Thanks to your comment regarding a possible memory corruption issue, I > ran my memory module trough memtest86+, which identified several > problematic addresses. So this was likely a hardware issue. > > I tried blacklisting them with the memmap kernel command-line option, > but that didn't fix the issue. Looking at the addresses, I reduced my > memory to 600 MiBs (mem=3D600M, which seems to solve the issue, though > it makes `guix pull` extremely slow. > > I haven't touched that system in a while, so my recollection is a bit > fuzzy. I am going to try again, though. (I would have loved to > experiment on another computer on top of another distro, but wasn't > ready to give guix root access back then). > > I think this really was a HW issue, but I will keep you posted. It does look like a hardware issue from what you describe. Thanks for the update, Ludo=E2=80=99.