bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-15 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Mark and Maxim! >> Ext4 won't detect bitrot (silent corruption of your drive's data). >> You'll probably wake one day with a fsck that won't be able to recover >> some files, or worst, a completely dead drive. >> >> Your backups would also contain corrupted data (garbage in, garbage >> out!). >

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-15 Thread Mark H Weaver
Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Raghav Gururajan writes: > >>> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >>> I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped qui

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-15 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hi! > >> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >> >>> I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a >>> failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. >>> >>> In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped quickly >>> dis

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-15 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi! > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a >> failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. >> >> In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped quickly >> discovering a hardware problem which might otherwise ha

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a > failing drive was established as the most likely culprit. > > In other words, Btrfs checksuming capabilities helped quickly > discovering a hardware problem which might otherwise have silent

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hey Raghav, > > Did you eventually find what went wrong? Should we close this bug or at > least retitle it? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. I took Raghav to #btrfs last week, where with the help of gentle folks a failing drive was established as the most likely culprit.

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey Raghav, Did you eventually find what went wrong? Should we close this bug or at least retitle it? Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-09-01 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 23:04:25 -0400 Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hi Danny! > > > Usually that means file-system corruption, which very likely was caused by a > > hardware (disk) problem. I've had it before, and shortly after the disk > > died. > > Oh no! My disk is a SSD, which is only abo

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Danny! > Usually that means file-system corruption, which very likely was caused by a > hardware (disk) problem. I've had it before, and shortly after the disk died. Oh no! My disk is a SSD, which is only about 2 years old. Isn't that too soon? Btw, is there a tool to check the health of the

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Raghav, On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 05:48:30 -0400 Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix! > > [1] Out of no where, when I did `guix environment foo`, I got: > > \note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space > builder for `/gnu/store/2ajnpcblwpgzjdhx3050qapy3li31pr5-profile.drv

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Julien Lepiller writes: > No, it's supposed to be like that. /gnu/store is mounted read-only (on > the guix system) to prevent you from writing to it. Very sorry for the confusion, I forgot that! (and I did not check before) :-( >>> /dev/mapper/secondary on / type btrfs >>> (rw,relatime,ssd,spa

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Julien Lepiller
No, it's supposed to be like that. /gnu/store is mounted read-only (on the guix system) to prevent you from writing to it. The guix daemon has write access to the store when it wants to add a new item, or garbage collect. Le 31 août 2020 07:11:13 GMT-04:00, Giovanni Biscuolo a écrit : >Hello Ra

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Raghav when forwarding the output of commands next time, plz beware your MUS does not reformat the relevant :-) This seems as a system issue on your side, not a Guix bug Raghav Gururajan writes: >> It seems connected to a filesystem issue: can you also tell us what's >> the output of "mo

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Gio! > It seems connected to a filesystem issue: can you also tell us what's > the output of "mount"? none on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=3934712k,nr_inodes=983678,mode=755) none on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) /dev/mapper/secondary on / type bt

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Raghav Raghav Gururajan writes: [...] > [2] When I redid the command 2nd time, I got: > > error (ignored): cannot unlink `/tmp/guix-build-profile.drv-0': > Read-only file system It seems connected to a filesystem issue: can you also tell us what's the output of "mount"? [...] Thanks, Gio'

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Efraim! > What's the output of 'df -h' and 'df -i'? There's not much change in > error message if you're out of space or just out of inodes. rg@secondary ~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev /dev/dm-0 120G 95G 24G 81% /

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:48:30AM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix! > > [1] Out of no where, when I did `guix environment foo`, I got: > > \note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space > builder for `/gnu/store/2ajnpcblwpgzjdhx3050qapy3li31pr5-profile.drv' > fai

bug#43132: [GUIX SYSTEM]: Malfunction

2020-08-31 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! [1] Out of no where, when I did `guix environment foo`, I got: \note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space builder for `/gnu/store/2ajnpcblwpgzjdhx3050qapy3li31pr5-profile.drv' failed with exit code 1 [2] When I redid the command 2nd time, I got: error (igno