GNU bug report logs - #19976
Cannot install texlive

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: request <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 19976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19976: Cannot install texlive
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:06:20 +0100

merge 19939 19976
thanks

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

> found valid signature for '/gnu/store/6rz8gpy7ax6334ihw87zyaxyibz96hc3-texlive-2014-data', from 'http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/6rz8gpy7ax6334ihw87zyaxyibz96hc3-texlive-2014-data'
> downloading `/gnu/store/6rz8gpy7ax6334ihw87zyaxyibz96hc3-texlive-2014-data' (3392.6 MiB installed)...
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 1986744320 bytes
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 1986220032 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 6 MiB. Returning NULL!

When running:

  strace -s 234 -o t wget -O /dev/null \
     http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/6rz8gpy7ax6334ihw87zyaxyibz96hc3-texlive-2014-data

we see:

  write(5, "GET /nar/6rz8gpy7ax6334ihw87zyaxyibz96hc3-texlive-2014-data HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: Wget/1.16.1 (linux-gnu)\r\nAccept: */*\r\nAccept-Encoding: identity\r\nHost: hydra.gnu.org\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\n\r\n", 194) = 194

  [...]

  recvfrom(5, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nServer: nginx/1.6.2\r\nDate: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:41:09 GMT\r\nContent-Type: application/x-nix-archive\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n76634478\r\nBZh91AY&SYDH\330\5\0S\n\177\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377\377! \0\2\345\10\0\20\10\0\210t\204\260\320'c\264="..., 511, MSG_PEEK, NULL, NULL) = 511

  [...]

  read(5, "76634478\r\n", 10)             = 10

This is telling us that this is chunked encoding, and that the first
chunk’s size is #x76634478 B = 1986217080 B = 1.9 GiB.  Ouch!

You could buy more RAM.  ;-)  We’ll fix <http://bugs.gnu.org/19939>, see
whether we can backport it in Guix, and also see if we can ask nginx to
provide reasonable chunks.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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