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bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is packa
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raingloom |
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bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure |
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Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:59:34 +0200 |
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:41:00 +0200
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>
wrote:
> Hi bo0od,
>
> Your subject was quite dramatic and probably not true. Try to
> avoid both.
>
> bo0od writes:
> > 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.
>
> Take a look at (and next time, attach)
>
> $ bzless
> /var/log/guix/drvs/5a/8xxi15g20iqr78daw3w1c7xyqmmd1k-vigra-1.11.1.drv.bz2
>
> the log file mentioned in the error message. You'll probably find
> the string ‘Killed’ near the end. If you haven't rebooted yet,
>
> $ grep oom /proc/vmstat
>
> will probably return something non-zero.
>
> If so: you ran out of memory while building a heavy package. This
> causes your system to become unresponsive whilst it tries to
> postpone that for as long as possible. This is a fact of Linux.
>
> You can try to work around it by adding RAM, passing ‘-{M,c}1’ to
> the guix command that failed, and/or enabling swap, but the root
> cause is you simply don't have enough memory to build this package
> at its default settings.
>
> Or, you can make sure you download a substitute instead of trying
> to build everything locally. At the time of writing (commit
> d14f213) there's a libreoffice substitute on ci.guix.gnu.org. Are
> substitutes configured and enabled?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
Also this is an issue in general with the Linux OOM killer. I recommend
installing earlyoom. It's already packaged in Guix and there is even a
service description for it.
It will help with the freezing issue.
bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2021/04/12
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure,
raingloom <=
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, bo0od, 2021/04/13
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2021/04/13
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, bo0od, 2021/04/14
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/15
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, bo0od, 2021/04/16
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Maxim Cournoyer, 2021/04/20
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Mark H Weaver, 2021/04/22
- bug#47717: guix outrageously exhaust itself (freeze) when there is package build failure, Efraim Flashner, 2021/04/25