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critical error during 'guix pull'

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From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
To: GUIX Bugs <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: critical error during 'guix pull'
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 15:33:56 +0100

Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
 master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
/gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
/gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code

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Message #8 received at 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
Cc: 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 15:53:17 -0500

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:
> 
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
> unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code

Since the capabilities of hydra.gnu.org are sometimes outstripped by
user demand, users sometimes experience repeatable network failures
while downloading. We have raised the funds to buy a more powerful
machine for hydra.gnu.org and to host it.

Do you know if this succeeded for you during the period while the Guix
git repository's HEAD was unchanged? Althought, I don't see how state of
HEAD could make a difference to whether or not the gzip encoding was
successful.

> 
> -- 
> ng/ni*
> vcard: http://krosos.sdf.org
> 
> 
> 

Message #11 received at 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 22:19:03 +0100

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:
>> 
>> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
>> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>>  master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
>> unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
>> 
>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
>> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code
>
> Since the capabilities of hydra.gnu.org are sometimes outstripped by
> user demand, users sometimes experience repeatable network failures
> while downloading. We have raised the funds to buy a more powerful
> machine for hydra.gnu.org and to host it.
>

I tend to forget this, thanks for the reminder.

> Do you know if this succeeded for you during the period while the Guix
> git repository's HEAD was unchanged? Althought, I don't see how state of
> HEAD could make a difference to whether or not the gzip encoding was
> successful.
>

I'm not sure, and maybe I should raise my personal level for reporting
things hydra related. I tried 5-8 times with failures, and minutes later
it succeeded. I can't point anymore what was going on, the logs tell me
the only commit ~7 hours ago was icecat.

As this is not really a bug it could be closed if there's nothing more I
could provide?

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ng/ni*
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Message #14 received at 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
Cc: 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 17:20:30 -0500

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:19:03PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> >> Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:
> >> 
> >> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
> >> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
> >>  master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
> >> unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> >> 
> >> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> >> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
> >> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> >> guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code
> >
> > Since the capabilities of hydra.gnu.org are sometimes outstripped by
> > user demand, users sometimes experience repeatable network failures
> > while downloading. We have raised the funds to buy a more powerful
> > machine for hydra.gnu.org and to host it.
> >
> 
> I tend to forget this, thanks for the reminder.
> 
> > Do you know if this succeeded for you during the period while the Guix
> > git repository's HEAD was unchanged? Althought, I don't see how state of
> > HEAD could make a difference to whether or not the gzip encoding was
> > successful.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure, and maybe I should raise my personal level for reporting
> things hydra related. I tried 5-8 times with failures, and minutes later
> it succeeded. I can't point anymore what was going on, the logs tell me
> the only commit ~7 hours ago was icecat.

It's really annoying when this happens!

> 
> As this is not really a bug it could be closed if there's nothing more I
> could provide?

Sure, you can close the bug by emailing NNN-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, where
NNN is the number of the bug.

> 
> -- 
> ng/ni*
> vcard: http://krosos.sdf.org

Message #19 received at 22573-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
To: 22573-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: closed
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 02:08:05 +0100

Problem solved,
problem wasn't really a problem and details couldn't be provided.

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Message #22 received at 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 22573 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nils Gillmann <niasterisk <at> grrlz.net>
Subject: Re: bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:34:26 +0100

Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
>> Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:
>> 
>> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
>> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>>  master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 100.0%
>> unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
>> 
>> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
>> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned status 1
>> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>> guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code
>
> Since the capabilities of hydra.gnu.org are sometimes outstripped by
> user demand, users sometimes experience repeatable network failures

This is true, but the tarball above is served by a completely different
machine, which is unlikely to be overloaded.  But yeah, maybe there was
a transient networking error on either side of the connection.

I’ve tried just now and it works fine currently, FWIW.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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