Subject: Re: bug#30027: core-updates: guile build hung during tests with defunct guile process
From: Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
To: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:27:08 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

zimoun <[email-masked]> writes:

> This old bug #30027 is about core-updates and Guile (2.2).
>
>   <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30027>
>
>
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 at 11:35, Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> While building core-updates locally on my x86_64 system running GuixSD,
>> my first attempt to build guile-2.2.3 got hung up during the test suite.
>> There was no CPU usage or terminal output for over 30 minutes, and 'ps'
>> showed a defunct guile process at the bottom of the process tree.
[...]
>
> Is it still relevant?  Or can we close it?

I wouldn't be surprised if the underlying bug still exists, but I don't
remember seeing this particular failure mode since then.  We might as
well close this bug.

Thank you for working through these old bugs, zimoun.

     Regards,
       Mark