Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> writes:
> I have an armhf marsboard that I'm trying to run guix on top of debian. I
> started by flashing a debian wheezy image, stripping out most of the
> packages, and upgrading to jessie. I installed using the 0.8.2 armhf binary.
> `guix pull` failed with the error "unable to fork: Invalid argument", and
> likewise `guix build hello` also failed.
This is probably because your kernel lacks the necessary features to
create the build containers needed by guix-daemon. The above error is
printed if the 'clone' system call fails when invoked with the following
flags:
CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWIPC | CLONE_NEWUTS
You need PID namespaces, private mount namespaces, private network
namespaces, IPC namespaces, and UTS namespaces. You will also need
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES.
We should document this better, but I guess you need at least the
following options enabled in your kernel build-time configuration:
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_UTS_NS=y
CONFIG_IPC_NS=y
CONFIG_USER_NS=y
CONFIG_PID_NS=y
CONFIG_NET_NS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y
Mark
