bug#30027: core-updates: guile build hung during tests with defunct guile process

[zimoun]

Hi Mark,

This old bug #30027 is about core-updates and Guile (2.2).

  <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/30027>


On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 at 11:35, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:
> While building core-updates locally on my x86_64 system running GuixSD,
> my first attempt to build guile-2.2.3 got hung up during the test suite.
> There was no CPU usage or terminal output for over 30 minutes, and 'ps'
> showed a defunct guile process at the bottom of the process tree.
>
> My second attempt to build it succeeded.  Note that this is not
> 'guile-final', but rather the same derivation that would be built by
> "guix build guile".  Also note that I do not use binary substitutes, so
> everything is built locally.
>
> Here's the tail of the build log, followed by an excerpt of "ps auxwwf"
> output:
>
> starting phase `check'
>   GEN      public-submodule-commit
> make  check-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-guile-2.2.3.drv-0/guile-2.2.3'

[...]

> mhw@jojen ~/guix-mhw-core-updates$ cat ~/GUIX_CORE_UPDATES_HUNG_GUILE_BUILD_PS

[...]

> guixbui+ 20862  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    01:17   0:00              
>                         \_ [guile] <defunct>


Is it still relevant?  Or can we close it?


All the best,
simon