Subject: Re: bug#65495: Error from compute-guix-derivation

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:24:17 +0200

Hi,

This old bug

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/65495

On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 at 17:01, Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> ./guix/store.scm:1417:15: In procedure loop:
>> ERROR:
>>   1. &store-protocol-error:
>>       message: "build of `/gnu/store/wfck89415b22gqq25fi0mypgrw8vw1c8-ghostscript-9.56.1.drv' failed"
>>       status: 1
>> guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/2h6lpkk5030gcaavxpa54lgss0n5g0vz-compute-guix-derivation'
>> failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "39fa1ef033fda82cb1d122e0d1675b51acb1db34"; system: "x86_64-linux";
>> host version: "a79950af1568c262a79fc0cdfd391b7328c058cf"; pull-version: 1).
>>
>> Complete output below. For what it's worth, I suspect this is related to
>> the disk running out of space during the build. After guix errored out,
>> df reports that my root partition is 100% full.
>
> Maybe you could run “guix gc” for collecting some free space.
>
> Well,
>
>     guix time-machine --commit=a79950af1568c262a79fc0cdfd391b7328c058cf \
>       -- time-machine --commit=39fa1ef033fda82cb1d122e0d1675b51acb1db34 \
>       -- describe
>
> runs for me.  Maybe we could detect if enough free space is around
> before launching the heavy computations and/or download.

…is a transient bug.

Closing.  Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
simon