Subject: Re: bug#38379: guix pull crashing: Throw to key `bad-response'
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 11:35:38 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Today `guix pull` started crashing for me:
>
> $ guix pull --verbosity=9 --substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Building from this channel:
>   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git	5d297ca
> Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... -
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'...  15.9%Backtrace:
> substitute:            3 (apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 7f82f190f1e0>)
> substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> substitute:     705:2  2 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handler (k proc)>)
> substitute: In ice-9/eval.scm:
> substitute:     619:8  1 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f82f1585140>)))
> substitute: In guix/ui.scm:
> substitute:   1730:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> substitute: 
> substitute: guix/ui.scm:1730:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
> substitute: Throw to key `bad-response' with args `("Bad Response-Line: ~s" (""))'.
> guix pull: error: `/gnu/store/k76m7w6fmcy12iraz070sfw5ns410m42-guix-1.0.1-9.f63e493/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly

This is because we hit ENOSPC on ci.guix.gnu.org (a bug in itself).

This is fixed now, so you should no longer experience it (Cuirass is
still stopped on berlin while GC makes more space, though.)

Apologies for the inconvenience!

Ludo’.