Re: "profil-drv" error or what am I doing wrong?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Adam Pribyl <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>
>>>> What error does it report?
>>>
>>> This is what is at the end:
>>>
>>>  makefile:550: recipe for target 'install.perl' failed
>>>             make[1]: *** [install.perl] Error 28
>>>             make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> /tmp/nix-build-perl-5.16.1.drv-0/perl-5.16.1'
>>>             makefile:535: recipe for target 'install' failed
>>>             make: *** [install] Error 2
>>>             phase `install' failed after 90 seconds
>>>             builder for
>>> /gnu/store/pg7qk32dirrqwagwd12n533v483hyipx-perl-5.16.1.drv' failed
>>>              with exit code 1
>>
>> All this means that it failed to build Perl.  Since it happens during
>> the install phase, it may be a no-space-left condition; could you check
>> if this is the case?
>>
>> Could you check the tail of the log file returned by
>>
>>  guix build --log-file 
>> /gnu/store/pg7qk32dirrqwagwd12n533v483hyipx-perl-5.16.1.drv
>
> This produces a log file in .bz2 compressed archive. First I thought
> bzip2 is not there, but then I found it is just not linked into any
> PATH.

Right.

> But you are probably right, as the qcow is already 1.5GB.
> df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory
>
> df /dev/sda1 confirms there is not much space left, it is then pretty
> hard to use guix when there is not a plenty of space to compile. It
> could be I first tried to build packages as user and it consumed
> additional space.

OK.

>>> guix pull
>>> prints few messages and then just sits there, doing nothing.
>>
>> At this point it is probably building all of the above dependencies, but
>> I understand this can be confusing because there are no messages being
>> printed.
>
> I think it gets stuck for the same reason as any other build - not
> enought space, because the load of the system was 0

Could be.

> guix pull on a clean qcow ends with
>  guix pull: error: build failed: build of
> /gnu/store/ffixc7nqdf5rlydkzi9bv5ylx9y8blh0-guix-latest.drv' failed
>
>  guix build --log-file 
> /gnu/store/ffixc7nqdf5rlydkzi9bv5ylx9y8blh0-guix-latest.drv
>  accepted connection from pid 13623, uid 0
>  guix build: error: no build log for 
> '/gnu/store/ffixc7nqdf5rlydkzi9bv5ylx9y8blh0-guix-latest.drv'

That ‘guix build --log-file’ fails is weird, unless there was not even
enough space for the log itself.  You could check whether
/var/log/guix/drvs is already filled.

> As everything remains on the disk it looks to me like it is building with
> "keep build tree of failed builds"

The --keep-failed option, which I think is what you’re referring to,
keeps build trees under /tmp/nix-build-*.  If you used that option, you
may want to remove those directories.

> guix gc cleaned it up.. right? but no clue what gets wrong this time.

‘guix gc’ won’t clean /tmp, only /gnu/store.

> However I am probably doomed to not get this rolling.
>
>> But I’m sure you’ll find other things that are under-documented or
>> undocumented.  Don’t hesitate to report them.
>
> Of course, as soon I am not drowning myself.

We won’t let you drown, but you’ll have to be a good swimmer, and be
prepared to occasionally swallow water.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.