bug#54944: guix pull hangs on 32 bit

[Csepp]

Maxim Cournoyer  writes:

> Hi!
>
> raingloom  writes:
>
>> It's been at 67% on guix-packages-base for at least an hour now. The
>> system itself is responsive and with the swap I gave it, it has more
>> than enough memory. Htop shows three guile processes at the top of the
>> list when sorted by CPU%, their states are S, D, D.
>> Both CPUs are practically idling.
>> This looks like some kind of lockup to me.
>>
>> Fresh install based on bare-bones example on a 32 bit netbook, but the
>> install image used is the latest tagged version, since apparently there
>> is no 32 bit option for edge.
>>
>> I also tried pulling using channel-with-substitutes, since I'm not too
>> keen on locally building everything on such an old machine. Although
>> Guix itself should frankly not take this long to build if we want to be
>> competitive with other distros. Anyways, pulling with that in
>> channels.scm gives a cert related error, so that's great, means old
>> images can't easily be used for installation.
>
> Have you been able to reproduce this?  If so, could you share the commit
> you are starting from and the CPU architecture, so that we may hopefully
> reproduce too?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maxim

CPU architecture is x86, commit it happened on last time is 347733b.
Other possibly relevant factors:
* spinning rust storage
* 1GB RAM
* encrypted BTRFS root
* 4GB (encrypted) swap
* 128MB zswap

The last was not there when I originally submitted the bug.

The swap is relevant because if it's a timing issue it's very possible
some part of the code assumes reads are almost instant, which is not
true with swap, and delaying a read might be exposing a race condition.

bug#58690: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-ess: Update to 18.10.2-1.01e7f5b.

[Ricardo Wurmus]

* gnu/packages/statistics.scm (emacs-ess): Update to 18.10.2-1.01e7f5b.
[source]: Update snippet; remove patch.
[arguments]: Use gexp; add phase "patch-test-suite"; run tests conditionally.
[inputs]: Drop package labels.
* gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch: Remove file.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Remove it.
---
 gnu/local.mk  |  1 -
 ...macs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch | 23 -
 gnu/packages/statistics.scm   | 87 +--
 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 
gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch

diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 9443dd617a..f61141dd27 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -1055,7 +1055,6 @@ dist_patch_DATA = 
\
   %D%/packages/patches/elogind-revert-polkit-detection.patch   \
   %D%/packages/patches/emacs-deferred-fix-number-of-arguments.patch\
   %D%/packages/patches/emacs-exec-path.patch   \
-  %D%/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch \
   %D%/packages/patches/emacs-git-email-missing-parens.patch\
   %D%/packages/patches/emacs-fix-scheme-indent-function.patch  \
   %D%/packages/patches/emacs-json-reformat-fix-tests.patch \
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch 
b/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index f7b61391c3..00
--- a/gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-From 9cc5520e1998d03f5dec0fbb1fe71b7cdec38b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Alex Branham 
-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 06:41:20 -0500
-Subject: [PATCH] Add required when to obsolete function alias
-
-Closes #1085

- lisp/ess-r-package.el | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/lisp/ess-r-package.el b/lisp/ess-r-package.el
-index 260959955..397ce14e6 100644
 a/lisp/ess-r-package.el
-+++ b/lisp/ess-r-package.el
-@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ package mode. Use this function if state of the buffer 
such as
-   (error "As of ESS 16.04, `ess-developer' is deprecated. Use 
`ess-r-set-evaluation-env' instead"))
- 
- (defalias 'ess-toggle-developer 'ess-developer)
--(define-obsolete-function-alias 'ess-r-devtools-check-package-buildwin 
'ess-r-devtools-check-with-winbuilder)
-+(define-obsolete-function-alias 'ess-r-devtools-check-package-buildwin 
'ess-r-devtools-check-with-winbuilder "18.04")
- (define-obsolete-function-alias 'ess-r-devtools-ask 
'ess-r-devtools-execute-command "18.04")
- 
- (make-obsolete-variable 'ess-developer "Please use 
`ess-developer-select-package' and `ess-r-set-evaluation-env' instead." "16.04")
diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index 16fb06e35a..3be9aea6cd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -6426,11 +6426,10 @@ (define-public java-jdistlib
 (license license:gpl2+)))
 
 (define-public emacs-ess
-  ;; Latest release is old.  This is not the latest commit either due to bug
-  ;; reported here: .
-  (let ((commit "24da603184ce39246611dd5b8602e769d7ebd5bf")
+  ;; Latest release is old.
+  (let ((commit "01e7f5b482b8a3331f1341483dedf2bd30403423")
 (version "18.10.2")
-(revision "0"))
+(revision "1"))
 (package
   (name "emacs-ess")
   (version (git-version version revision commit))
@@ -6441,7 +6440,7 @@ (define-public emacs-ess
(url "https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS";)
(commit commit)))
  (sha256
-  (base32 "0j98lv07nzwzd54d4dgcfz01wy5gj48m0mnirxzh5r45ik2myh1r"))
+  (base32 "1b40rbbqzgfxj88357aixq646g3v3f88k9kwhgmyyjy9lb2dljkb"))
  (file-name (git-file-name name version))
  (modules '((guix build utils)))
  (snippet
@@ -6459,9 +6458,6 @@ (define-public emacs-ess
  ;; Stop install-info from trying to update the info directory.
  (substitute* "doc/Makefile"
((".*/dir.*") ""))
- ;; Fix r-help-mode test.
- (substitute* "test/ess-test-r.el"
-   (("\\(equal ess-help-object \"plot.default\")") "t"))
  ;; Avoid generating ess-autoloads.el twice.
  (substitute* "Makefile"
(("all: lisp doc etc autoloads")
@@ -6471,30 +6467,67 @@ (define-public emacs-ess
(("mkdir -p \\$\\(ESSDESTDIR)")
 "$(MAKE) -C lisp install; $(MAKE) -C doc install")
(("\\$\\(INSTALL) -R \\./\\* \\$\\(ESSDESTDIR)/")
-"$(MAKE) -C etc install"))
- #t))
- (patches
-  (search-patches "emacs-ess-fix-obsolete-function-alias.patch"
+"$(MAKE) -C etc install"))
   (build-system gnu-build-system)
   (arguments
-   (let

bug#59364: gnome clocks does not start due to missing libGLES.so

[Simon Streit]

Csepp  writes:
> It does work with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1, but it would be pretty messed
> up if that had to be enabled globally.

Thanks for that tip! 

I fired up a recent Fedora live image to see that these applications do
work in wayland on this old machine.  Which they do. 

Gnome in Ferdora is already at 43.  

bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

Ludovic Courtès  writes:
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
> [ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!

Happens for me too, unless I do --cores=1.

(In fact my computer turned off for unrelated reasons before the build
finished, but it had gone past to at least xorg.scm.  But I think
--cores=1 made a difference.)

Regards,
Florian

bug#59364: gnome clocks does not start due to missing libGLES.so

[Csepp]

Simon Streit  writes:

> Hello,
>
> Csepp  writes:
>
>> This is the exact error:
>> Couldn't open libGLESv2.so.2: libGLESv2.so.2: cannot open shared object 
>> file: No such file or directory
>
> I can confirm this error, though it only happens in wayland enabled
> sessions on my old laptop with an Intel GM965/GL960.  This doesn't
> happen on machines with modern graphics cards installed.
>
> The list is longer for me on Gnome applications that will fail to start:
>
> gnome-calculator, gnome-calendar, gnome-characters, gnome-clocks
> gnome-contacts, gnome-font-viewer, etc.
>
> Checkout is at 8f9588185d74f1f251b041b84d43302c337588ff.

It does work with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1, but it would be pretty messed
up if that had to be enabled globally.

bug#57742: QT plugins from profile not found (QT_PLUGIN_PATH)

[kiasoc5 via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Would it be possible to patch the wrapper before the Guix 1.4.0 release, 
or at least document somewhere that qt wayland is blocked by this bug?

bug#59717: ‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux (OOM)

[Ludovic Courtès]

As of 1bc9d5222f9053fd0ace7b92df0ef9548707cf41 (version-1.4.0), the
‘guix’ package fails to build on armhf-linux, running out of memory:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
[ 75%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/toolkits.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tor.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/tv.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uglifyjs.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uml.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unicode.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/unrtf.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/upnp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/usb-modeswitch.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/uucp.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/valgrind.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/version-control.go
[ 76%] GUILEC   gnu/packages/video.go
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67125248 bytes
GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 67108864 bytes
GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 3440 MiB. Returning NULL!
[…]
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

The build process goes on; it never stops but doesn’t make any progress.

I don’t know if it’s deterministic.

It builds fine on i686-linux.

Ludo’.