Hello, Thank you for your reply. The GuixSD version is 0.8.1. I figured part of the problem was with libarchive not being the pre-built binary. I even tried reassuring that hydra was authorized, which apparently had no effect on the outcome. Also, while using Guix as a package manager on my host system (Fedora 21), I attempted to install the package 'dfc' from source (not binary) and I encountered the libarchive-3.1.2.drv error there as well, so I checked the build log located at /tmp/nix-build*-libarchive-3.1.2.drv/.../test_option_b.log, and it mentioned that "File archive1.tar has size 3072, expected 2048" and that "bsdtar does not pad archives written directly to regular files". I hope this information helps narrow down the issue. Do you have any suggestions as to how this could be resolved?
Best Regards, Jeffrey On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 11:48:32PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Jeffrey Serio <[email protected]> skribis: > > > "I've attempted installing GuixSD a few times on the same PC (Different > > USBs, re-downloaded the image, etc.) > > and always get the same error-- that the build of system.drv failed. > > I'm not exactly sure where to go from > > this error message, though, and I was wondering if someone did... > > http://pastebin.com/3vG5GE4f"; > > The log at pastebin.com reads: > > 55. builder for 'gnu/store/[... long string of characters > ...]-libarchive-3.1.2.drv' failed with exit code 1 > [...] > 62. cannot build derivation '/gnu/store/[... long string ...]-system.drv': > 1 dependencies couldn't be built > > This means that, to build the system configuration, Guix tried to build > libarchive, which failed. > > It also means that somehow hydra.gnu.org was not providing pre-built > binaries for libarchive & co., perhaps because they have been GC’d. > > What GuixSD version is it? > > Thanks for your report! > > Ludo’.
