Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Rene,

Rene <address@hidden> skribis:

> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello -n --verbosity=100
> ...
> madvise failed: Function not implemented
> madvise failed: Function not implemented
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes
> GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 2097152 bytes
> GC Warning: Out of Memory! Heap size: 113 MiB. Returning NULL!
> Warning: Unwind-only `out-of-memory' exception; skipping pre-unwind handler.
> madvise failed: Function not implemented
>
> And it does not create any file in `/tmp`.
>
> The error is similar to the one reported[1], but in 2017; Any idea about if 
> it is the same situation?
>
> Thank you
>
>
> Environment:
> * guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0.112-46e61 (master branch)
> * Debian/Hurd
> * guile (GNU Guile) 2.2.4

You must be using a personal branch, no?  It seems that ‘master’ cannot
be used natively on GNU/Hurd because we lack binaries under
gnu/packages/bootstrap/i586-gnu:

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$ guix build hello -s i586-gnu -n
guix build: error: could not find bootstrap binary 'tar' for system 'i586-gnu'
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Manolis, I suppose we could cross-compile ‘bootstrap-tarballs’ to
i586-pc-gnu and get the mkdir, tar, etc. files from there?

Thanks,
Ludo’.