bug#47717: guix becomes unresponsive while building the 'vigra' package

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 05:39:11AM +0000, bo0od wrote:
> I have used "guix pull" then "guix upgrade" one of the packages couldnt be
> built but thats not the real issue, The real issue it caused guix to freeze
> for like not less than 2+ hours and i couldnt do anything with the distro
> until guix cut out the build/upgradation by itself.
> 
> check the uploaded content.

[...]

> building /gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv...
>  42% [#############################                                         
> ]builder for `/gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv' 
> failed with exit code 1
> build of /gnu/store/5a8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv failed
> View build log at 
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/5a/8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv.bz2'.

So, it failed to build 'vigra'. This package is notoriously expensive to
build, although it's not expected that your computer would stop
responding.

What kind of computer are you using? Are you using swap?

Ideally, we'd have a substitute for this...