bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 03:33:56PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Hi, today 15:30 EU/Berlin Timezone I started guix pull and got this output:
> 
> Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.bHtiW7
> From http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz...
>  master.tar.gz  1KiB                2.5MiB/s 00:00 [####################] 
> 100.0%
> unpacking '/gnu/store/ig37bb33y7vnpay722b541ljlqvmyjbm-guix-latest.tar.gz'...
> 
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Child returned 
> status 1
> /gnu/store/9m8jg38cy0j95cb1gmi784ms85nn68vr-tar-1.28/bin/tar: Error is not 
> recoverable: exiting now
> guix pull: error: failed to unpack source code

Since the capabilities of hydra.gnu.org are sometimes outstripped by
user demand, users sometimes experience repeatable network failures
while downloading. We have raised the funds to buy a more powerful
machine for hydra.gnu.org and to host it.

Do you know if this succeeded for you during the period while the Guix
git repository's HEAD was unchanged? Althought, I don't see how state of
HEAD could make a difference to whether or not the gzip encoding was
successful.

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