Subject: Re: bug#24053: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:14:20 +0200

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

> scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix)
> scheme@(guile-user)> (define s (open-connection))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store s "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz" #f "sha256" "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz")
> mhw@jojen:~$ echo $?
> 141

(status:term-sig 141) = 13 (SIGPIPE), which makes sense: the daemon’s
child process at the other end received SIGKILL due to an OOM condition.

We don’t see that from the CLI because commands ignore SIGPIPE (see
‘initialize-guix’ in (guix ui)).

Ludo’.