Hello! I'm getting this error while trying to compile latest guix
master on one of my machines (fortunately, not my main one). I don't
know why I'm hitting this error, since I'm not hitting it on my main
machine. I'm upgrading from a few months back.
I spoke on irc and found that Ricardo had the same issue:
<rekado> paroneayea: I also got this error trying to run “make”
<rekado> paroneayea: it happens on my recording machine (x86_64) that hadn’t
been updated in a while, but not on my laptop (also x86_64), which is
updated regularly.
Here's what I do. I start at the commit I was at
(c2662820f359be19262cdd5d564e6a0dddc43281) and run "guix environment
guix". Then I do a "git pull && make clean && make" and I get:
;;; Failed to autoload cairo-image-surface-create in (cairo):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (cairo)
;;; Failed to autoload cairo-image-surface-create in (cairo):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (cairo)
;;; Failed to autoload rsvg-handle-new-from-file in (rsvg):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (rsvg)
;;; Failed to autoload cairo-image-surface-create in (cairo):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (cairo)
;;; Failed to autoload rsvg-handle-new-from-file in (rsvg):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (rsvg)
;;; Failed to autoload cairo-image-surface-create in (cairo):
;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (cairo)
LOAD (gnu build vm)
LOAD (gnu tests)
LOAD (gnu tests base)
LOAD (gnu tests nfs)
LOAD (gnu tests install)
warning: 'waitpid' -1 failed unexpectedly: No child processes
Backtrace:
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
3088: 19 [#<procedure 4226c30 at ice-9/boot-9.scm:3069:17 ()>]
In unknown file:
?: 18 [primitive-load-path "gnu/tests/install" ...]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
453: 17 [eval # ()]
411: 16 [eval # #]
387: 15 [eval # #]
373: 14 [run-install # #]
387: 13 [eval # #]
387: 12 [eval # #]
387: 11 [eval # #]
411: 10 [eval # #]
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
573: 9 [map #<procedure 360a6c0 at ice-9/eval.scm:416:20 (a)> (# # # # ...)]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
387: 8 [eval # #]
411: 7 [eval # #]
411: 6 [eval # #]
387: 5 [eval # #]
In unknown file:
?: 4 [force #<promise #<procedure 5bbf150 at ice-9/eval.scm:416:20 ()>>]
In ice-9/eval.scm:
411: 3 [eval # #]
411: 2 [eval # #]
In ice-9/popen.scm:
98: 1 [close-process #<closed: file 0> 28701]
In unknown file:
?: 0 [waitpid 28701 #<undefined>]
ERROR: In procedure waitpid:
ERROR: In procedure waitpid: No child processes
make[2]: *** [Makefile:4929: make-go] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/cwebber/src/guix'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4072: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/cwebber/src/guix'
make: *** [Makefile:2728: all] Error 2
This is on commit 21abf092a49f0ce80cbfff5cccabb7dbf53abf96
If instead I switch back to c2662820f359be19262cdd5d564e6a0dddc43281 I
can compile Guix again.
I did a git-bisect to find what commit was breaking things. According
to git-bisect, the perpetrator is:
63302a4e55241a41eab4c21d7af9fbd0d5817459 is the first bad commit
commit 63302a4e55241a41eab4c21d7af9fbd0d5817459
Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Date: Mon Feb 6 23:47:09 2017 +0100
Add (gnu build shepherd).
* gnu/build/shepherd.scm: New file.
* gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
:040000 040000 7a07b30ebec719aca2fba4c2776f7152e669a1ee
63eb6bc3fa184fc42c3d469d594fc056f16b7892 M gnu
bisect run success
I've confirmed this by double-checking that I can build the commit
before but not this commit.
I don't really know why this fails, but it looks like it's somehow
triggering a remote process in some way related to tests and
shepherd... which is confusing, because I don't think this happening
during tests.
- Chris
