Subject: bug#63451: Guix pull not successful

From: a <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 21:31:13 -0500

hm. i will chalk it up to hardware/filesystem then! thank you for the time.

On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:04 AM Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> 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
>