bug#55537: Guix pull after many months fails: substitutes for git-minimal-2.36.1 failed

[Rafa Gálvez]

Hi,



On 2022-05-25 17:27, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Rafa Gálvez schreef op wo 25-05-2022 om 13:37 [+0200]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Rafa Gálvez <rafa@esat.kuleuven.be> writes:
> > >
> > > Toggle quote (7 lines)
> > > > ./guix/store.scm:1428:15: ERROR:
> > > >    1. &store-protocol-error:
> > > >        message: "some substitutes for the outputs of derivation
> > > > `/gnu/store/6rbibj988j90d8gyccvxrqmkfr0l3mk6-git-minimal-2.36.1.drv'
> > > > failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to
> > > > build derivation from source "
> > >
> > > This seems to be a transient network issue, I was able to substitute
> > > that on my own computer.  Can you please retry again, and see if that
> > > fixes the problem?
> >
> > I tried multiple times, everyday since it first happened, to no avail.
> >
> > I also ran guix gc just in case there was something there very old 
> > that
> > was messing something up, but that didn't help either.
>
> Given that error reporting in "guix pull" is rather basic, maybe try
> substituting or building git-minimal outside "guix pull", like this:
>
> $ guix build 
> /gnu/store/6rbibj988j90d8gyccvxrqmkfr0l3mk6-git-minimal-2.36.1.drv
>
> Maybe that will have more information (also easier to attempt to 
> reproduce for
> other people)?

This is the result of that command:
~> guix build 
/gnu/store/6rbibj988j90d8gyccvxrqmkfr0l3mk6-git-minimal-2.36.1.drv
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 
100.0%
20.4 MB will be downloaded:
   /gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33
   /gnu/store/4jdghmc65q7i7ib89zmvq66l0ghf7jc4-glibc-2.33-static
   /gnu/store/d7k34kpyggyaw70y7b85vgvi9wvwwwil-git-minimal-2.36.1
substituting 
/gnu/store/d7k34kpyggyaw70y7b85vgvi9wvwwwil-git-minimal-2.36.1...
downloading from 
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/d7k34kpyggyaw70y7b85vgvi9wvwwwil-git-minimal-2.36.1 
...
Backtrace:
           1 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/aiq72f37a9z7jx24mxf7p600sgx…")
In guix/ui.scm:
  1747:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)

guix/ui.scm:1747:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
unsupported compression scheme lzip
substitution of 
/gnu/store/d7k34kpyggyaw70y7b85vgvi9wvwwwil-git-minimal-2.36.1 failed
guix build: error: some substitutes for the outputs of derivation 
`/gnu/store/6rbibj988j90d8gyccvxrqmkfr0l3mk6-git-minimal-2.36.1.drv' 
failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to 
build derivation from source

> Also, I'm wondering if it's case-related somehow, could you run
>
> $ guix build echo
> > something like 
> > ‘/gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12’
> $ /gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12/bin/HELLO #
> type HELLO, not hello!
>
> and tell use the output of that?

~> guix build /gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 
100.0%
substituting /gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12...
downloading from 
https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/gzip/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12 
...
 hello-2.12  61KiB                                                       
                                                                         
 1.4MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%

~> /gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12/bin/HELLO
fish: Unknown command: 
/gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12/bin/HELLO
~ [127]> 
/gnu/store/x2byq2a04pij2m2gqbcy11mqikz07i1m-hello-2.12/bin/hello
Hello, world!

> Greetings,
> Maxime.

Thanks Maxime for your help!

Rafa