Hi folks,
I want to run Guix on a Raspberry Pi 4, but I’m unable to build an
image for it. I built a declarative system-image around the
example operating-system in
gnu/system/examples/raspberry-pi-64.tmpl -- you can see my
definition in this paste: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/22d01add
When I try building the image with:
guix system image raspi-min.scm
...it fails with:
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guix/build/utils.scm:822:6: In procedure invoke:
ERROR:
1. &invoke-error:
program: "mcopy"
arguments: ("-bsp" "-i"
"/gnu/store/735nmj7g2b16nvnsrjkb1ihx4ygsk15y-partition.img"
"tmp-root/gnu" "::gnu")
exit-status: 1
term-signal: #f
stop-signal: #f
environment variable `PATH' set to
`/gnu/store/f93sad0fc85marmp2as1qsn88wvb0jfd-dosfstools-4.2/sbin:/gnu/store/np9nf8bx2540ch7v8vkyxkcf3am5njp6-fakeroot-1.38/bin:/gnu/store/b9m2jarwgfn4qfq6yaib1rn559bxf2vf-mtools-4.0.49/bin'
installing bootloader...
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I’m building this on a Raspberry Pi 3B running Debian, with Guix
as a foreign package manager on top. I’m not sure which thing
it’s saying is out of space. I have plenty of actual disk space:
$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 117G 38G 74G 34% /
I know /tmp running out of space can cause this, so I have 24gb of
swap added:
$ free -m
total used free shared
buff/cache available
Mem: 902 197 115 0
677 704
Swap: 24191 49 24142
I ran `watch -n 1 df -h' while building the image, neither / nor
/tmp usage increases appreciably, and nothing is filling up.
So I think the issue is that the declarative partitions themselves
are running out of space, but I don’t know why. Based on the
`mcopy' command, it seems like this is the vfat /boot partition.
The Debian on this machine is using <300mb, so I’d expect 1gb is
plenty. It also fails with 2gb. Specifying 4gb fails because
fat16 doesn’t support filesystems that large.
Anyone know what’s wrong here? Or have a working system image
definition I can start from?
-- Ian
