bug#48972: Early guile repl is giving me some GC Warnings

[jbranso]

June 18, 2021 5:54 AM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> skribis:
> 
>> My librebooted Thinkpad T400 has been giving me the same GC warning
>> for about 2 years now:
>> 
>> GC: Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for
>> main thread
>> GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
>> Welcome, this is GNU's early boot guile
> 
> Those warnings are annoying but harmless. The second one is because
> /proc is not mounted yet at this stage—it’s mounted later by this very
> Guile process. The first one I’m unsure.
> 
> We should probably just patch out these two warnings for the static
> Guile packages used by the initrd.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.