On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 08:59:03AM +0000, ng0 wrote: > Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 06:05:17PM -0400, Harry Prevor wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I'm running GuixSD on a Thinkpad X200. I typically run 'guix pull' > >> almost every day without any troubles, but about two days ago I > >> started getting this error every time I ran the command leaving me > >> unable to update my system: > >> > >> >Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.JNdnA7 > >> >From > >> >http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz... > >> > ….tar.gz 1.4MiB/s 00:07 | > >> >10.4MiB transferred > >> >unpacking > >> >'/gnu/store/q4zzpxpbbhwmwh4snisymlpf0p24ddk7-guix-latest.tar.gz'... > >> >guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code > >> > >> What's odd about this, is the actual file > >> /gnu/store/q4z...-guix-latest.tar.gz, appears to be a valid targz > >> archive, and I'm able to unpack and repack that using tar manually > >> just fine. 'realpath $(which tar)' returns > >> '/gnu/store/ggmmcw327ny831gqd7zvi3hpl5fm23mn-tar-1.28/bin/tar', and > >> I've done some basic tests which do confirm that binary seems to > >> work. I'm not having any network problems otherwise. > >> > >> What can I do to further debug / fix this? > > This was caused by a patch I sent which was applied on master. > Guix error messages could be more natural, as for me the error output I > got seemed just verbose and I decided it was okay to send this in. The > commit has since then be reverted and I will send in an updated patch. > > Simpler explanation: a license I added was already inherited by another > loaded module, this caused some "hick up" and make broke (while it did > not break locally on my side).
I don't think this is the cause of this bug. If I remember correctly, Harry mentioned this bug on IRC before the "expat" problem. Also, this problem appears to happen while unpacking the tarball, and I _think_ that should be possible independent of bugs in Guix code. Since nobody has suggested a more precise debugging method, I recommend you try running the guix-daemon with `strace -f -o logfile` to see precisely what fails.
