Hi Paul Paul Boddie <[email protected]> skribis:
> These steps are what I thought might be needed. So, I did the following on my > i386-linux-gnu system: > > tar zxf guix-0.13.0.tar.gz 0.14.0 was released yesterday, I’d suggest starting from that. > # Add to gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm: > # ((string=? system "mipsel-linux") "/lib/ld.so.1") > make > sudo make install > > This got me the daemon again. Having set up the build users and group, I then > started the daemon... > > sudo /usr/local/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild > > ...and ran the build command for the binaries: I’d suggest enabling substitutes if you don’t want to build everything locally: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Substitutes.html > guix build --target=mipsel-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs > > I then got a couple of errors that halted the build process. Here's the start > of the first error: > > output path `/gnu/store/1j3mqrcp3y4xlb9jl5d0ri5aszn8mfii-gcc-4.9.4.tar.bz2' > should have sha256 hash > `14l06m7nvcvb0igkbip58x59w3nq6315k6jcz3wr9ch1rn9d44bc', instead has > `1z91vb2i4d61fbrz7hdrsxiw3ksdzf372bgdzwsn75b72ndbi6lg' That would suggest either that gcc-4.9.4.tar.bz2 was modified on ftp.gnu.org (unlikely), or that there’s something fishy going on on the network (captive portal, DNS hijacking, etc.) Ideas? > Running the build command again seems to either resolve this problem or make > it go away somehow. However, I then get a persistent error: > > guix build: error: build failed: cloning builder process: Invalid argument > > Looking at the archives, I see that this happened before (reported by Efraim): > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg00144.html > > I didn't see any obvious conclusion. So, I ran the daemon using strace and > looked at the clone system call that supposedly causes this problem: > > clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, > child_tidptr=0x404c5f28) = 25426 Could you search in the strace output for the ‘clone’ call that failed with EINVAL? It’s probably the one from nix/libstore/build.cc. > For the record, I'm running all this in a User Mode Linux instance, mostly > because my main system doesn't support the prerequisites for building Guix. What kernel version do you use? guix-daemon requires namespace support, but this is a relatively old feature. Otherwise it might be some limitation of User Mode Linux; I’ve never tried. Thanks, Ludo’.
