Re: GNU/Hurd on real hardware

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 at 12:14, Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> wrote:
> Hi Janneke,
>
>
> Quoting Janneke Nieuwenhuizen (2024-11-29 19:18:43)
>> I succeeded in building a 32bit installer from commit
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> commit cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e
>> news: Add entry for the Guix survey.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Lucky you! 😞
>
> ```
> $ git checkout -b test_hurd cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e

[...]

> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 
> '/home/tanguy/Documents/repo/guix/master/'...
> Backtrace:
> In guix/store.scm:
>    1330:8 19 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f2e4de16d80 at g…> …)
>   2210:25 18 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.100 7f2e4ff158c0> …)
> In guix/gexp.scm:
>    931:13 17 (_ _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    2038:8 16 (_ _)
> In guix/gexp.scm:
>    300:22 15 (_ _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    2038:8 14 (_ _)
> In guix/gexp.scm:
>    300:22 13 (_ _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>    2038:8 12 (_ _)
> In guix/packages.scm:
>   2037:11 11 (_ _)
> In guix/build-system/channel.scm:
>      43:2 10 (_ _)
> In guix/store.scm:
>   2082:38  9 (_ #<store-connection 256.100 7f2e4ff158c0>)
> In guix/channels.scm:
>    559:23  8 (latest-channel-instances #<store-connection 256.100 7…> …)
>    430:12  7 (latest-channel-instance #<store-connection 256.100 7f…> …)
> In guix/git.scm:
>     353:7  6 (call-with-repository _ #<procedure 7f2e39e384e0 at gui…>)
> In guix/git-authenticate.scm:
>     403:4  5 (authenticate-repository #<git-repository 17e6e840> _ # …)
>    262:20  4 (load-keyring-from-reference #<git-repository 17e6e840> _)
> In git/branch.scm:
>     101:8  3 (_ _ _ _)
> In git/bindings.scm:
>      77:2  2 (raise-git-error _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Git error: cannot locate remote-tracking branch 'origin/keyring'
> ```
>
> `origin/keyring` exist and its last commit is 
> f8868dd56bff0f282329a33abb62262b2fc584b6
> (add Ekaitz).

Weird!  Hum, I think it’s mixing two things (local checkout and
~/.cache/guix/checkout/pj…) for one authentication cache, so maybe
that’s why an error pops up.  I suggest to populate the authenticate
cache first (guix time-machine) and then play with Hurd. ;-)

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$ guix time-machine -q --commit=cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e -- 
describe
$ git checkout -b test_hurd cd26d76fedb7ab13ad91bd5dcfce119892b8e62e
$ make -j8
$ echo cross fingers…
$ ./pre-inst-env guix system image --image-type=iso9660 --system=i686-linux 
gnu/system/install.scm
$ echo …yeah!
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This works for me… Aside I have not tweak Linux kernel.


Cheers,
simon