Subject: Re: bug#18553: Hydra: failures to create GC root /home/hydra/offload-*

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:53:45 +0100

Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I've seen several failed builds on Hydra where the build log ends with
> something like this:
>
> phase `strip' succeeded after 0 seconds
> @ build-succeeded /gnu/store/b20viwrr0h5y2mqdpx9bpi21snb4fv5c-xkeyboard-config-2.6.drv -
> /gnu/store/sp60mrd8hashvh0v8l17gn2mz87a34kl-xkeyboard-config-2.6
> guix build: error: failed to create GC root `/home/hydra/offload-20121227-hydra.gnu.org-18304': File exists

This particular issue no longer exists with the Guile-SSH-based version
of the offload hook, which does not rely on “indirect GC roots”:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-11/msg00227.html

Ludo’.