Subject: nar-error on pull

From: Brian Cully <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 16:09:46 -0400

I’m getting an error when trying to pull inside a docker 
container:

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guix# guix pull
substitute: updating substitutes from 
'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
0.0 MB will be downloaded
 le-certs-1  5KiB 
 552KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%Updating channel 'guix' 
 from Git repository at 
 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to f0e9048 (92 new 
commits)...
Building from this channel:
  guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git   f0e9048
substitute: updating substitutes from 
'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

[…]

 lz4-1.9.3  156KiB
 libxft-2.3.3  45KiB
 perl-5.34.0  15.1MiB
guix substitute: error: mkdir: File exists
Backtrace:
          18 (primitive-load 
          "/gnu/store/p411j4q9hjk639rwcy1p3s6v89c9bxhr-comput
In ice-9/eval.scm:
    155:9 17 (_ _)
    159:9 16 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#<directory 
    (guile-u?> ?) ?) ?)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    152:2 15 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
    152:2 14 (with-fluid* _ _ _)
In ./guix/store.scm:
  2155:24 13 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 
  7fe9ea44c140> #<procedure
   1983:8 12 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9ea44c140>)
In ./guix/gexp.scm:
   300:22 11 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9ea44c140>)
   1181:2 10 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9df0440f0>)
   1047:2  9 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9df0440f0>)
    893:4  8 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9df0440f0>)
In ./guix/store.scm:
  2040:12  7 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9df0440f0>)
  1395:13  6 (map/accumulate-builds #<store-connection 256.99 
  7fe9df0440f0> #<pr
   1391:5  5 (map/accumulate-builds #<store-connection 256.99 
   7fe9df0440f0> #<pr
  1406:15  4 (_ #<store-connection 256.99 7fe9df0440f0> 
  ("/gnu/store/8v8y8rc4rwd
  1406:15  3 (loop #f)
   711:11  2 (process-stderr #<store-connection 256.99 
   7fe9df0440f0> _)
In ./guix/serialization.scm:
   102:11  1 (read-int #<input-output: file 10>)
     80:6  0 (get-bytevector-n* #<input-output: file 10> 8)

./guix/serialization.scm:80:6: In procedure get-bytevector-n*:
ERROR:
  1. &nar-error:
      file: #f
      port: #<input-output: file 10>
guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program 
'/gnu/store/p411j4q9hjk639rwcy1p3
failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: 
"f0e9048e98f0789aa98de88984f
host version: "1.3.0-27.598f728"; pull-version: 1).
Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to 
<[email-masked]>.
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The container was made from this manifest:

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(use-modules (gnu))
(use-package-modules shells)

(operating-system
 (host-name "guix")
 (timezone "America/New_York")

 (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
              (bootloader grub-bootloader)
              (targets '("/dev/vda"))))

 (file-systems (list
                (file-system
                 (mount-point "/")
                 (device "/dev/vda1")
                 (type "ext4"))))

 (packages (append (map specification->package
                        '("zsh"))
                   %base-packages))

 (users (cons* (user-account
                (name "bjc")
                (group "users")
                (comment "brian")
                (shell (file-append zsh "/bin/zsh"))
                (home-directory "/home/bjc")
                (supplementary-groups
                 '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
               %base-user-accounts)))
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With this command:

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$ guix system image -t docker minimal-sysconf.scm
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-bjc