Re: error building grub during update

[John Soo]

Hi nightowl,

I had this error recently too. I think rebasing to a newer commit fixed it for 
me. Since fixing the problem did involve reconfiguring again It could be 
something else though. maybe something nondeterministic in the test?

John


> On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:32 PM, nightowl <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I was attempting to update my system using guix pull followed by a system 
> reconfigure, and I get the following error reported when it is attempting to 
> build grub:
> 
>    address@hidden ~# guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>    substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0%
>    building /gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv...
>    | 'check' phasebuilder for 
> `/gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv' failed with exit 
> code 1
>    build of /gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv failed
>    View build log at 
> '/var/log/guix/drvs/9c/fzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv.bz2'.
>    guix system: error: build of 
> `/gnu/store/9cfzhf2abc6ll08jk4s70h67mikfjz9l-grub-2.02.drv' failed
> 
> I am just doing an update here, did not make any changes to the config file.  
> Could there be somthing wrong with my system, or is this something on the 
> repository end and maybe I just need to try again at a later time?  Also, the 
> last lines of the log file show the following:
> 
>    legacy_password_test:
>    legacy_password_test: PASS
>    TEST FAILURE
> 
> 
>    Backtrace:
>               4 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/wx3j5qg7gazg6gvamvl7may1gm9…")
>    In ice-9/eval.scm:
>       191:35  3 (_ _)
>    In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
>       863:16  2 (every1 #<procedure 93b500 at /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvq…> …)
>    In 
> /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvqbh7ysc9ay9slhijvmal-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
>       799:28  1 (_ _)
>        369:6  0 (check #:target _ #:make-flags _ #:tests? _ # _ # _ # _)
> 
>    
> /gnu/store/gfprsx2m62cvqbh7ysc9ay9slhijvmal-module-import/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:369:6:
>  In procedure check:
>    Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &invoke-error [program: 
> "make" arguments: ("check" "-j" "2") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f 
> stop-signal: #f] 7d6600>)'.
> 
> 
> 
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