Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> 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. As this is not really a bug it could be closed if there's nothing more I could provide? -- ng/ni* vcard: http://krosos.sdf.org
