bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi! On Thu 05 Jul 2018 05:33, Mark H Weaver writes: >> One problem I’ve noticed is that the child process that >> ‘call-with-decompressed-port’ spawns would be stuck trying to get the >> allocation lock: >> >> So it seems quite clear that the thing has the alloc lock taken. I >> suppose this ca

bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mark, Thanks for chiming in! Mark H Weaver skribis: > Does libgc spawn threads that run concurrently with user threads? If > so, that would be news to me. My understanding was that incremental > marking occurs within GC allocation calls, and marking threads are only > spawned after all

bug#32057: gnucash on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37 fails its testsuite

2018-07-05 Thread Nils Gillmann
gnucash with guix version d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37 fails its testsuite. On the record since this version, off the record for at least a couple of weeks. last (relevant) part of the log appended. 85/102 Test #85: test-tokenizer ...***Failed 0.06 sec

bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions

2018-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I ended up simply improving the manual in commit fc0e663f782896f542d008c871d21b9cf636a75c. Maybe we can do better next time, like have ‘guix system init’ provide hints or something. Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 05 Jul 2018 05:33, Mark H Weaver writes: > >>> One problem I’ve noticed is that the child process that >>> ‘call-with-decompressed-port’ spawns would be stuck trying to get the >>> allocation lock: >>> >>> So it seems quite clear that the thing has the alloc lock

bug#32058: mysql build fails on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37

2018-07-05 Thread Nils Gillmann
Since I do not have the time to work on this, but there seems to be no open bug: mysql started a couple of commits ago (since last core-updates merge?) to fail its build. [ 62%] Linking CXX shared module group_replication.so cd /tmp/guix-build-mysql-5.7.21.drv-0/build/rapid/plugin/group_replicati

bug#32058: mysql build fails on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37

2018-07-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
ng0, Thanks! Nils Gillmann wrote: Since I do not have the time to work on this, but there seems to be no open bug: mysql started a couple of commits ago (since last core-updates merge?) to fail its build. I noticed this yesterday, too. In the meantime, I've tried updating MySQL to 5.7.22

bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andy Wingo skribis: > On Thu 05 Jul 2018 05:33, Mark H Weaver writes: [...] >> Another possibility: both the finalization thread and the signal >> delivery thread call 'scm_without_guile', which calls 'GC_do_blocking', >> which also temporarily grabs the GC allocation lock before calli

bug#31842: Arb test suite aborts on 32-bit platforms

2018-07-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 11:48:57AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Arb’s test suite aborts on i686 and armhf: this should be fixed by an update to the latest version in commit fe44e654b47ca083939f5a70c9414820af76c8df. I tested it on i686, if there are still problems on armhf, please feel f

bug#32058: mysql build fails on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37

2018-07-05 Thread Nils Gillmann
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice transcribed 5.0K bytes: > ng0, > > Thanks! > > Nils Gillmann wrote: > > Since I do not have the time to work on this, but there seems to be no > > open bug: > > > > mysql started a couple of commits ago (since last core-updates merge?) > > to fail > > its build. > > I noti

bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, On Thu 05 Jul 2018 12:05, Mark H Weaver writes: > However, it's also the case that libgc uses 'pthread_atfork' (where > available) to arrange to grab the GC allocation as well as the "mark > locks" in the case where parallel marking is enabled. See > fork_prepare_proc, fork_parent_proc, and

bug#31925: 'guix substitutes' sometimes hangs on glibc 2.27

2018-07-05 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 05 Jul 2018 14:27, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > Andy Wingo skribis: > >> The signal thread is a possibility though in that case you'd get a >> warning; the signal-handling thread appears in scm_all_threads. Do you >> see a warning? If you do, that is a problem :) >

bug#32058: mysql build fails on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37

2018-07-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Nils Gillmann writes: > Since I do not have the time to work on this, but there seems to be no open > bug: > > mysql started a couple of commits ago (since last core-updates merge?) to fail > its build. It looks like you omitted the actual error message that caused make to exit. -- Ricardo

bug#32058: mysql build fails on d88b29d6b78482cdb05ac714984f6a27195e3d37

2018-07-05 Thread Nils Gillmann
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 1.7K bytes: > > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice transcribed 5.0K bytes: > >> ng0, > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Nils Gillmann wrote: > >> > Since I do not have the time to work on this, but there seems to be no > >> > open bug: > >> > > >> > mysql start

bug#32067: Doc issue

2018-07-05 Thread Oleg.bocharov
Hi, Link in documentation is not valid, not pointing to actual image Does not work: "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/guix/guixsd-vm-image-0.14.0.system.tar.xz"; Works: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-vm-image-0.14.0.x86_64-linux.xz Prefix: [ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/](ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gu