On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 10:19:03PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote: > 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.
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 nnn-d...@debbugs.gnu.org, where NNN is the number of the bug. > > -- > ng/ni* > vcard: http://krosos.sdf.org
