GNU bug report logs - #43763
guix deploy sometimes fail with error "failed to start Guile on remote host 'myhost'"

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: guix deploy sometimes fail with error "failed to start Guile on
 remote host 'myhost'"
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:09:12 -0400

Hello,

Sometimes 'guix deploy' ends up failing near the end, with what looks
like:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix deploy: sending 180 store items (1,094 MiB) to 'myhost'...
[...] (progress bar)
guix deploy: error: failed to deploy mymachine: failed to start Guile on
remote host 'myhost'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Upon retrying the same 'guix deploy' command, it usually succeeds, e.g.:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix deploy: sending 8 store items (5 MiB) to 'myhost'...
guix deploy: successfully deployed mymachine
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,

Maxim

Message #8 received at 43763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43763: guix deploy sometimes fail with error "failed to
 start Guile on remote host 'myhost'"
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:41:53 +0200

Hi Maxim,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Sometimes 'guix deploy' ends up failing near the end, with what looks
> like:
>
> guix deploy: sending 180 store items (1,094 MiB) to 'myhost'...
> [...] (progress bar)
> guix deploy: error: failed to deploy mymachine: failed to start Guile on
> remote host 'myhost'
>
>
> Upon retrying the same 'guix deploy' command, it usually succeeds, e.g.:
>
> guix deploy: sending 8 store items (5 MiB) to 'myhost'...
> guix deploy: successfully deployed mymachine

I’ve seen it too, and I think it might be the same issue as described
here:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/commit/?id=cdef930632d0a94b0d92bf4f5fc7227e75c6eb10

If that happens again, could you log in the target machine as root and
run:

  find ~/.cache/guile | xargs ls -lrtd

That way you’ll see if some .go files have just been compiled, and also
if there are temporary .go.XYZ files in there (stemming from an
interrupted compilation process due to the timeout.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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