bug#55059: bug in `guix pull`

[Maxime Devos]

Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix schreef op zo 24-04-2022
om 09:25 [+0200]:
> > Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... /guix pull: error:
> > You
> > found a bug: the program
> > '/gnu/store/lb30npcazqfbw8cbkk9kf8pcf17c2sl6-compute-guix-
> > derivation'
> > failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version:
> > "eb34ff16cc9038880e87e1a58a93331fca37ad92"; system: "x86_64-linux";
> > host version: "1.3.0-1.771b866"; pull-version: 1).
> > Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to < 
> > bug-guix@gnu.org>.
> 
> How much RAM does your machine have?  The derivation computation
> famously takes quite a bit of memory.  If that's the issue, you
> could add some swap space.

If <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50238> was applied, we wouldn't have to
guess what is the cause, instead "guix pull" would just tell us if it's
a networking error or a stack overflow or an oom(*) ...

(*) Except on Linux due to overcommit, though that could be worked-
around by setting the appropriate variable in /proc/sys or by doing
'setrlimit' like some of Guile's OOM tests do.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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