bug#54944: guix pull hangs on 32 bit

[Csepp]

Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
>>
>>> It's been at 67% on guix-packages-base for at least an hour now. The
>>> system itself is responsive and with the swap I gave it, it has more
>>> than enough memory. Htop shows three guile processes at the top of the
>>> list when sorted by CPU%, their states are S, D, D.
>>> Both CPUs are practically idling.
>>> This looks like some kind of lockup to me.
>>>
>>> Fresh install based on bare-bones example on a 32 bit netbook, but the
>>> install image used is the latest tagged version, since apparently there
>>> is no 32 bit option for edge.
>>>
>>> I also tried pulling using channel-with-substitutes, since I'm not too
>>> keen on locally building everything on such an old machine. Although
>>> Guix itself should frankly not take this long to build if we want to be
>>> competitive with other distros. Anyways, pulling with that in
>>> channels.scm gives a cert related error, so that's great, means old
>>> images can't easily be used for installation.
>>
>> Have you been able to reproduce this?  If so, could you share the commit
>> you are starting from and the CPU architecture, so that we may hopefully
>> reproduce too?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Maxim
>
> CPU architecture is x86, commit it happened on last time is 347733b.
> Other possibly relevant factors:
> * spinning rust storage
> * 1GB RAM
> * encrypted BTRFS root
> * 4GB (encrypted) swap
> * 128MB zswap
>
> The last was not there when I originally submitted the bug.
>
> The swap is relevant because if it's a timing issue it's very possible
> some part of the code assumes reads are almost instant, which is not
> true with swap, and delaying a read might be exposing a race condition.

Happening again.
pulled to: 8320c0c
pulled from: 4501a50

Same system.

The system version is from november of last year due, because trying to
upgrade takes so damn long and often gets stuck on some package with no
substitute.
So... the situation is not great...