Adam Pribyl <[email protected]> skribis:

> I am testing the 0.8 Guix release as announced. Installation went
> pretty smooth from USB. Noticed network devices are now renamed to
> "unique" names. Fine, but one should be careful when starting
> networking and "eth0" is missing.

Right, we should probably add a note in the manual.

> Just tried
> guix package -i mc
>
> to test it. Without substitutes this fails after long build at
> dependency "perl after 3600 seconds of silent". There is plenty of
> disk space this time (200GB) but I am probably still missing something
> essential to use guix as source based distro.
>
> From substitutes "mc" installs OK.

It sounds that either mc or one of its dependencies deadlocks,
presumably in a non-deterministic fashion.

Can you still see which build failed exactly?  You may be able to find
it out using “bzgrep -r silence /var/log/guix/drvs/”.

Thanks for testing!

Ludo’.

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