Re: Problem with guix offload

[Marius Bakke]

Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed guix on top of Debian Buster using the installation script
> at guix.gnu.org. I did this on two machines, hat and wand, with the hope
> that I could offload compilation to wand.
>
> This is what I get:
>
> root@hat:~# guix offload test
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales'
> package and
> defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
>
>      guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
>      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
>
> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
>
> guix offload: testing 1 build machines defined in
> '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
> guix offload: Guix is usable on 'wand.pdc.kth.se' (test returned
> "/gnu/store/883yjkl46dxw9mzykykmbs0yzwyxm17z-test")
> guix offload: 'wand.pdc.kth.se' is running GNU Guile 3.0.1
> sending 1 store item (0 MiB) to 'wand.pdc.kth.se'...
> exporting path `/gnu/store/sd0wqvaffi1cbpvf0dq37mab34rmlnav-export-test'
> ;;; [2020/03/17 12:45:48.671038, 0] write_to_channel_port: [GSSH ERROR]
> Remote channel is closed: #<input-output: channel (open) 7f2c1c9831e0>
> Backtrace:
>            1 (primitive-load "/root/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
> In guix/ui.scm:
>   1833:12  0 (run-guix-command _ . _)
>
> guix/ui.scm:1833:12: In procedure run-guix-command:
> Throw to key `guile-ssh-error' with args `("write_to_channel_port" "Remote
> channel is closed" #<input-output: channel (open) 7f2c1c9831e0> #f)'.
>
> Any hints about what could be wrong?

'guix' must be available on GUILE_LOAD_PATH on the remote machine,
e.g. by installing the 'guile3.0-guix' package into the user profile.

IOW, for offloading to work, this command should succeed:

$ ssh wand guile -c "'(use-modules (guix config))'"

It can be useful to add a dedicated user account on the remote for
offloading to avoid clobbering your regular profile.

Hope this helps,
Marius

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