bug#70659: Too many heap sections on guix pull

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Peacememories <peacememories@posteo.net> skribis:

> `guix pull` on a fresh install on WSL Ubuntu 24.04 fails with the
> following log.
>
> The same happened to me when trying GUIX on NixOS 23.11 via the
> `services.guix` option.
>
> ```
>
> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-locales' package and defining
> `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
>
>      guix install glibc-locales
>      export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
>
> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
>
> Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at
> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to ddf3759 (29,446 new
> commits)...
> Building from this channel:
>   guix      https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git   ddf3759

[...]

> -Too many heap sections: Increase MAXHINCR or MAX_HEAP_SECTS
> guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program

Thanks for the report.  As someone confirmed on IRC, this was caused by
7cef6b7ba555a9dfaf6d09cb7e112b0df77d5114, which introduced a circular
dependency, but only for those systems running a version of guix-daemon
lacking “builtin:git-download” (added in Sept. 2023).

Commit df3d30819e650a490ef39dd6692740bb13263c75 fixes that; you should
be able to pull now.

I would recommend upgrading guix-daemon though, as noted in:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Upgrading-Guix.html

One of the main reasons to do so is this:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2024/fixed-output-derivation-sandbox-bypass-cve-2024-27297/

Thanks for reporting the bug!

Ludo’.