Subject: bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

From: bo0od <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:03:50 +0000

> What kind of computer are you using? Are you using swap?

4GB DDR3 rams, i7 4th generation , 20GB for Guix about 9GB swap

If this is not enough to install simple common used packages like 
libreoffice or onionshare..etc then this is big issue if guix considered 
to be targeting average users.

In Qubes distro 4GB is worthless/nothing the minimum is like 8GB and 
above. If guix is the same thing then no problem but for surely it need 
to be mentioned somewhere obvious(i didnt find it anywhere saying that).

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 05:39:11AM +0000, bo0od wrote:
>> I have used "guix pull" then "guix upgrade" one of the packages couldnt be
>> built but thats not the real issue, The real issue it caused guix to freeze
>> for like not less than 2+ hours and i couldnt do anything with the distro
>> until guix cut out the build/upgradation by itself.
>>
>> check the uploaded content.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> building /gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv...
>>   42% [#############################                                         ]builder for `/gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv' failed with exit code 1
>> build of /gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv failed
>> View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/5a/8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv.bz2'.
> 
> So, it failed to build 'vigra'. This package is notoriously expensive to
> build, although it's not expected that your computer would stop
> responding.
> 
> What kind of computer are you using? Are you using swap?
> 
> Ideally, we'd have a substitute for this...
>