On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 11:49:08PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis: > > > >> guix archive: error: build failed: error parsing derivation > >> `/gnu/store/k49lwfwgs8wcamys5qzn8c5n2zk0prc1-tcl8.6.4-src.tar.xz.drv': > >> expected string `Derive([' > > > > It looks like the store on this machine is corrupt. > > Indeed, the daemon doesn’t attempt to atomically write files coming from > an add-to-store RPC, which includes .drv files. > > So I think that if you pull the plug before the .drv has been flushed to > disk but after the .drv has been marked as valid in the SQLite database > (which is likely to happen in a timely fashion because SQLite does the > ‘fdatasync’ dance appropriately), then you end up with a truncated .drv > file.
I do not think that this was the problem. I opened the .drv files with vim, and they did not contain ASCII characters. Also, the file command marked them as binary data instead of text files. "guix gc --verify" passed, however. There were quite a few corrupted .drv files, and I ended up doing a complete "guix gc" instead of "guix gc -d ..." on every file, and this solved the problem. Thanks for your help with this, Andreas
