Hi Mark, I am marking this as *** RESOLVED ***.
Thanks for responding. It got me thinking in a different direction. I decided to delve into this problem by running the guix build command. Turn out the failure was occurring during cargo tests. Specifically: ... Running build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage2-tools/x86_64-unknown-gnu/release/deps/jobserver-dd0c6bf78d70e32b running 3 tests test jobserver_and_j ... ok test jobserver_exists ... test jobserver_exists has been running for over 60 seconds At this point the system hangs forever. After much internet searching without much for results, I decided on a hunch to increase the number of processors on my virtual machine from 1 to 2. Tests now succeed!! rustc is now installed. Brian. > On Dec 20, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Brian Woodcox <b...@inskydata.com> writes: > >> I’m not able to install rust. Initially, I was having problems with >> 1.19.0 because of memory issues. I fixed that by increasing the >> memory and now 1.19.0 is installed. >> >> Now that I have lots of memory 16GB, and lots of hard disk space, I cannot >> get 1.20.0 to install. >> >> I am installing it via: >> >> guix package -i rust >> >> It appears to be hung. >> >> guixbui+ 10572 0.0 0.2 127308 38260 ? Ssl 01:03 0:17 guile >> --no-auto-compile -L >> /gnu/store/27qw1zxljzylvm9b3jbi343gh6cngazq-module-import >> /gnu/store/iw20znxa586mkrv0156paq7z1ya9vcbq-rust-1.20.0-guile-builder >> >> The cpu just sits at 0.0 for this process. Normally it should be close to >> 100. > > FWIW, I've built rust-1.20.0 locally on my x86_64 GuixSD system several > times without running into this issue. My system has only 4 GB of RAM > and 8 GB of swap. On this system, I build everything locally. > > Hydra.gnu.org, our older build farm, has not run into this issue while > building rust-1.20.0. Binary substitutes for rust-1.20.0 are currently > available from hydra.gnu.org, so you should simply be able to download > them. > I am able to install the binaries for these. > Are you attempting to perform these builds within a VM? If so, are you > using QEMU, VirtualBox, or something else? Yes, with VirtualBox. > > I'm reminded of another unusual build failure that you encountered in > 'guile' when you were first experimenting with Guix, when hydra.gnu.org > was temporarily offline. The failure was one that I'd not seen reported > before or since. As I recall, in that case you were attempting the > build within VirtualBox. > > With this in mind, I wonder if the virtualization is imperfect in some > way that the rust-1.20.0 test suite is sensitive to. > Yup, it’s imperfect with less than 2 processors in the virtual machine. >> My var/log/guix/drvs/av/xcyxs39bdzs28kya500s4kpv0xvb9p-rust-1.20.0.drv.bz2 >> file has the following at the end: >> >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1260) >> ... ignored test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1273) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1306) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1321) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1338) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1358) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1409) ... ok >> test >> /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md >> - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1440) ... ok >> test /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc- > > FYI, here's the most recent build of rust-1.20.0 on x86_64 on > hydra.gnu.org: > > https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3218738 > > From there, you can retrieve the build log. Here's an excerpt of the > rust-1.20.0 build log from my own local system, including the point > where your build gets stuck: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1321) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1338) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1358) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1409) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1440) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1466) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1500) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - Standard_library_traits_used_for_error_handling (line 1514) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 132) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 148) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 173) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 197) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 232) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 266) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 283) ... ok > test > /tmp/guix-build-rust-1.20.0.drv-0/rustc-1.20.0-src/src/doc/book/first-edition/src/error-handling.md > - The_Basics (line 300) ... ok > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > Thanks for pointing me to this. > Mark