Subject: bug#30715: qemu-minimal fails its tests

From: Andreas Enge <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:04:34 +0100

Hello,

trying to do a "./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure" using the recent
git checkout 0ebc1b934d39b6c924cbe17fd37ceb2b201e9ac2 on my x86_64 virtual
machine results in the following error:

TEST: tests/qom-test... (pid=15434)
  /mips64el/qom/boston:                                                qemu-system-mips64el: cannot set up guest memory 'boston.ddr': Cannot allocate memory
Broken pipe
FAIL
GTester: last random seed: R02Sd3c0490c8b666ccab1db97138a9db879
(pid=15440)
  /mips64el/qom/none:                                                  OK
  /mips64el/qom/mips:                                                  OK
  /mips64el/qom/magnum:                                                OK
  /mips64el/qom/mipssim:                                               OK
  /mips64el/qom/malta:                                                 OK
  /mips64el/qom/pica61:                                                OK
  /mips64el/qom/fulong2e:                                              OK
FAIL: tests/qom-test
TEST: tests/test-hmp... (pid=15463)
  /mips64el/hmp/boston:                                                qemu-system-mips64el: cannot set up guest memory 'boston.ddr': Cannot allocate memory
Broken pipe
FAIL
GTester: last random seed: R02Sc4139b0a69c57a2ebaf419364d79262e
(pid=15469)
  /mips64el/hmp/none:                                                  OK
  /mips64el/hmp/mips:                                                  OK
  /mips64el/hmp/magnum:                                                OK
  /mips64el/hmp/mipssim:                                               OK
  /mips64el/hmp/malta:                                                 OK
  /mips64el/hmp/pica61:                                                OK
  /mips64el/hmp/fulong2e:                                              OK
FAIL: tests/test-hmp
make: *** [/tmp/guix-build-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv-0/qemu-2.10.2/tests/Makefile.include:837: check-qtest-mips64el] Error 1
phase `check' failed after 871.0 seconds
builder for `/gnu/store/d5mkvgcyix959dlgka43qf66d1252hv8-qemu-minimal-2.10.2.drv' failed with exit code 1
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/frr618fvww67npki8phxcxpcgg6l7dfh-grub-2.02.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix system: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/frr618fvww67npki8phxcxpcgg6l7dfh-grub-2.02.drv' failed

Andreas