Subject: bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:34:26 +0100

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> 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’.