Subject: bug#27476: guix pull fails on powerful server

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:15:58 +0200

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Is there another work-around I could try on this machine?
>
> Using Guile 2.0 worked for me:
>
> guix package -r guix guile-git -i guile2.0-guix guile2.0-git

Unfortunately, this didn’t work for me.  I tried this:

   guix package -i guile2.0-guix --with-source=/path/to/guix/checkout

This printed a lot of repetitions of “warning: unknown warning type
`macro-use-before-definition'” and eventually failed with this
backtrace:

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Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 160: 9 [catch #t #<catch-closure 8c6c00> ...]
In unknown file:
   ?: 8 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 8c6c00>]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  66: 7 [call-with-prompt prompt0 ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
 432: 6 [eval # #]
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
2412: 5 [save-module-excursion #<procedure 9057c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4084:3 ()>]
4091: 4 [#<procedure 9057c0 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4084:3 ()>]
1734: 3 [%start-stack load-stack #<procedure 916b60 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:4080:10 ()>]
1739: 2 [#<procedure 9176c0 ()>]
In unknown file:
   ?: 1 [primitive-load "/tmp/guix-build-guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-4.f1ddfe4.drv-0/source/./build-aux/compile-all.scm"]
In ice-9/threads.scm:
  99: 0 [loop (("guix/base16.scm" "guix/base32.scm" "guix/base64.scm" ...))]

ice-9/threads.scm:99:22: In procedure loop:
ice-9/threads.scm:99:22: In procedure fport_write: Bad address
make[2]: *** [Makefile:5252: make-go] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-4.f1ddfe4.drv-0/source'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4383: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-4.f1ddfe4.drv-0/source'
make: *** [Makefile:2973: all] Error 2
phase `build' failed after 149.5 seconds
builder for `/gnu/store/aqz4d2bbihvdmxqb6rlb71c853jb4dp3-guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-4.f1ddfe4.drv' failed with exit code 1
guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/aqz4d2bbihvdmxqb6rlb71c853jb4dp3-guile2.0-guix-0.13.0-4.f1ddfe4.drv
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Ricardo

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