Subject: bug#63451: Guix pull not successful

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 11:04:35 +0200

Hi,

On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 23:31, a <[email-masked]> wrote:

This:

> ~ guix pull -l
>
> Generation 1 Feb 05 2023 20:46:03
>   guix 4b9e1e8
> Generation 2 Feb 06 2023 10:23:38
>   guix a582d86
> Generation 3 May 08 2023 07:32:24
>   guix e118b92
> Generation 4 May 11 2023 13:02:21
>   guix d6f6b57
> Generation 5 May 14 2023 21:53:47 (current)
>   guix c5fa9dd

is inconsistent with the initial report:

> λ ~ guix pull
>                                                          [1259]
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to d6f6b57 (667 new commits)...

[...]

> guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program
> '/gnu/store/s2rl9h1zmxx84iyk25ndmn7rmy9508dj-compute-guix-derivation'
> failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version:
> "d6f6b57766e95d2fa8af63d4460a2b303ca4d867"; system: "x86_64-linux";
> host version: "1.4.0"; pull-version: 1).

And as pointed previously, this last message is also inconsistent by
itself.

>> Well, can you share the output of “guix pull -l”?  It would not explain
>> why the Guile ’module-gensym’ failed though.

Well, since the error seems from:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
\Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
   222:29 19 (map1 (#<syntax ((#<syntax lambda> (#<syntax x>) #<syntax x>)
#<syntax:packages.scm:609:30 %supporte?> ?))
   222:29 18 (map1 (#<syntax ((#<syntax lambda> (#<syntax x>) #<syntax x>)
(#<syntax quote> ()))> #<syntax (#<syn?> ?))
   222:17 17 (map1 (#<syntax (#<syntax:packages.scm:615:31
sanitize-location> (#<syntax:packages.scm:614:22 curre?> ?))
In ice-9/psyntax.scm:
Exception thrown while printing backtrace:
Wrong type to apply: 129
ice-9/boot-9.scm:3165:6: In procedure module-gensym:
Invalid read access of chars of wide string: "m-1bcbf699e1749862-28a08"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Well, I do not know if it’s possible to investigate more.  Especially,
when you re-run “guix pull” and it passes.

As Csepp is saying, maybe it comes from your hardware or your
filesystem.

Cheers,
simon