Subject: bug#19248: installation of 0.8 stops at guile prompt.

From: th3kent <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 20:17:28 +0200

[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> th3kent <[email-masked]> skribis:
>> [...]
>> Out of memory: Kill process 2068 (guix) score 526 or sacrifice child
>> Killed process 2068 (guix) total-vm:829080kB, anon-rss:201792kB, file-rss:0kB
>> guix system: error: build failed: unexpected end-of-file
>> 2470 operations
>
> This is a sign that too much data was written to the unionfs that sits
> on the root file system.
>
> Could it be because you forgot to run ‘deco start cow-store /mnt’?  

i definitely ran ‘deco start cow-store /mnt’ after i created my o.s
config. 

>> second attempt at installation failed with "no permissions" when copying
>> pata_* kernel modules to /gnu/store/*-linux-libre-3.17.2/.
>
> That is weird.  Do you remember at what point that happened?  Was it at
> the end of the ‘guix system init config.scm /mnt’ run?
>
> Files and directories under /gnu/store are meant to be immutable.

yes, the "no permission" error was after running a second 'guix system
init ...' command.

>> on restarting the laptop and booting from the h.d.d, the reboot stops
>> at the guile-user prompt.  the backtrace shows the following:
>>
>> In /gnu/store/*-module-import/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm:
>>   385:7  2 (#<procedure 1e943c0 at /gnu/store/...
>> In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>>   619:17  1 (for-each #<procedure load-linux-module* (file)> ...
>
> Does it show an actual error below that?
>
> Could you post your OS config?

the last line of the backtrace starts with "In Unkown ...".

here is my o.s config:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-modules (gnu)
             (srfi srfi-26))

(operating-system
  (host-name "gnusys01")
  (timezone "Africa/Johannesburg")
  (locale "en_US.UTF-8")

  (initrd (lambda (file-systems . rest)
            (apply base-initrd file-systems
                   #:extra-modules '("pata_acpi.ko" "pata_atiixp.ko")
                   rest)))

  (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")))
  (file-systems (cons (file-system
                        (device "root")
                        (title 'label)
                        (mount-point "/")
                        (type "ext4"))
                      %base-file-systems))

  (users (list (user-account
                (name "kent")
                (comment "the wizard of gnu")
                (group "users")

                (supplementary-groups '("wheel"
                                        "audio" "video"))
                (home-directory "/home/kent")))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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