bug#22573: critical error during 'guix pull'

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:19:03PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I tend to forget this, thanks for the reminder.
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure, and maybe I should raise my personal level for reporting
> things hydra related. I tried 5-8 times with failures, and minutes later
> it succeeded. I can't point anymore what was going on, the logs tell me
> the only commit ~7 hours ago was icecat.

It's really annoying when this happens!

> 
> As this is not really a bug it could be closed if there's nothing more I
> could provide?

Sure, you can close the bug by emailing address@hidden, where
NNN is the number of the bug.

> 
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