Subject: Re: bug#27051: builder for glibc-intermediate-2.25 fails and ends guix pull

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:51:03 +0200

Hi Calvin,

Calvin Heim <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 'guix pull' fails with the Guix package manager on Trisquel 7.
>
> $ uname -p
> i686
>
> $ guile --version
> guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.0
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 20170430.04
>
> $ guix pull

[...]

> at /gnu/store/5vvzwh41q3l0fdjyjxiz105fsxcz35rs-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:649:9 (expr)> #]
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>  432: 1 [eval # #]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [system* "patch" "-p1" "--force" "--input" #f]
>
> ERROR: In procedure system*:
> ERROR: Wrong type (expecting string): #f
> builder for
> `/gnu/store/m7q6fhjy4zz8j36jvf7yihq65v6m3dnw-glibc-intermediate-2.25.drv' failed with exit code 1

There was a small time window during which glibc-intermediate was broken
on i686.  This was fixed on April 30th:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=c2e4f14ac8cd3e1ce7f46a192ad0c9acc084b210

One way to work around the issue might be:

  mv ~/.config/guix/latest{,.bak}
  guix pull

Could you try this?

Thanks for reporting the issue,
Ludo’.