Package: guix;
Reported by: Rutherther <rutherther <at> ditigal.xyz>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 16:10:01 UTC
Severity: important
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From: hiecaq <this <at> hiecaq.org> To: 78356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, Rutherther <rutherther <at> ditigal.xyz> Subject: bug#78356: Broken system and home containers Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 10:08:17 +0800
Hi,
Rutherther via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Ludo
>
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> What command did you run, precisely? I cannot experience it:
>
> For home, I tried my own config, and since I was pretty sure any
> system
> container is affected (tried a simple one, my one and I know one
> other
> person reported this in Matrix channel), I didn't try anything
> simpler
> and just assumed all homes are going to be affected as well.
> Now trying simpler config you mentioned, that one works fine.
>
> The command was `guix home container -L ./home/modules
> ./home/home-container.scm`
> in my repository. It's here
> https://git.ditigal.xyz/~ruther/guix-config.
> Any idea what service could cause this behavior with
> lock-mounts? Would
> be good to isolate it, but I am not sure where to start.
>
> Here is the unshare error I was talking about earlier:
>> guix home: error: unshare: 268566528: Invalid argument
> Now I am getting it consistently, before it was missing
> sometimes.
> Currently on
> ```
>> ./target/guix/bin/guix describe
> guix 300d29e
> repository URL: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix-mirror
> branch: master
> commit: 300d29e69988caf23684f08effa51f621c7ec083
> nonguix 1940698
> repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
> branch: master
> commit: 19406981a9bf9d0b140180f1f3008cb91f716b4b
> ruther 1a49e47
> repository URL: https://git.ditigal.xyz/~ruther/guix-exprs
> branch: main
> commit: 1a49e4760bd922237532fa2eee44bc9e1fe42399
> rde bf8f628
> repository URL: https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde
> branch: master
> commit: bf8f628c4deb9acc94e261db80d301048ea1f0a2
> ```
>
> Thanks
> Rutherther
I'm getting this "unshare: 268566528: Invalid argument" error just
using `guix shell -C -m manifest.scm` when I was trying to develop
a local Haskell package today, and I think it might be relevant to
this bug. Here is the backtrace:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix shell: error: unshare: 268566528: Invalid argument
Backtrace:
16 (primitive-load
"/home/hiecaq/.config/guix/current/bin/…")
In guix/ui.scm:
2369:7 15 (run-guix . _)
2332:10 14 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1752:10 13 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In guix/status.scm:
839:4 12 (call-with-status-report _ _)
In guix/store.scm:
703:3 11 (_)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1752:10 10 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In guix/store.scm:
690:37 9 (thunk)
1331:8 8 (call-with-build-handler _ _)
1331:8 7 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f364c36aea0 at
g…> …)
In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
1184:11 6 (proc _)
In guix/store.scm:
2212:25 5 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.100
7f364cd41050> …)
In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
898:8 4 (_ _)
In gnu/build/linux-container.scm:
485:7 3 (call-with-container _ _ #:namespaces _ #:host-uids _
# …)
In unknown file:
2 (waitpid #f #<undefined>)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
Wrong type (expecting exact integer): #f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Here is my manifest:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-modules (guix)
(guix build-system haskell)
(guix git-download)
((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
(gnu packages)
(gnu packages xorg) ;; for libxpm
(gnu packages wm) ;; for ghc-xmobar
(gnu packages haskell)
(gnu packages haskell-apps))
(specifications->manifest
(list "ghc-xmobar" "ghc" "gcc-toolchain" "libxpm"))
(define %source-dir (dirname (current-filename)))
(define xmobar-hiecaq
(package
(name "xmobar-hiecaq")
(version "0.0.1")
(source
(local-file %source-dir
#:recursive? #t
#:select? (git-predicate %source-dir)))
(build-system haskell-build-system)
(inputs (list ghc-xmobar
libxpm))
(home-page "")
(synopsis
"")
(description
"")
(license license:gpl3+)))
(concatenate-manifests
(list
(specifications->manifest
(list "coreutils" "git" "which"))
(packages->manifest (list cabal-install))
(package->development-manifest xmobar-hiecaq)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
What I did is basically the following things in order (I believe
only the manifest is needed to reproduce):
1. `guix shell -C -m manifest.scm`
2. then I attempted `cabal build` but I realized that now I need
writable root. So
3. I quit the current shell and then `guix shell -C -m
manifest.scm --writable-root`, it failed with the above error.
4. After that, `guix shell -C -m manifest.scm` also failed, but if
I kept retrying sometimes it succeeded. With `--writable-root` it
failed consistently.
Output of `guix describe`:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Generation 26 May 17 2025 09:41:21 (current)
nonguix e4459f4
repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
branch: master
commit: e4459f4802e8b222eec55196d44c25dc7a5bc53b
guix 6465931
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 6465931bbc118d4ed9da652b0be74ed844b52b2a
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I had been using Guix at the commit
`d505cb960fd1e670be9a66d9fdbad94bc49e891d` before yesterday (so
`--writable-root` were not introduced yet) and I had never got any
similar error before. I hope my case is reproducible ;)
Thanks,
hiecaq
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