Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes:
> My disk was filling up, so I tried to run "guix gc", but I got an error > instead: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ guix gc -C 25GiB > ... > deleting `/gnu/store/n0gyzfw77ik35ld9d0d4737w88f11m4b-profile.drv' > deleting > `/gnu/store/fl7w0dlki7c906isiiflf9ka4c49zcmi-ca-certificate-bundle.drv' > deleting > `/gnu/store/ipn4xvvb3wrbx4lhzwdyyylvj42vyg6f-xdg-desktop-database.drv' > guix gc: error: executing SQLite statement: database disk image is malformed > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > What does this mean? I think this means that the database has been corrupted. > FYI, I was building one package using my Guix installation via "guix > build --cores=1", and another package using a Guix checkout via > "./pre-inst-env guix build --cores", when I decided to run this "guix > gc" command in another shell. I don't know if that matters. I don’t think this is related. > My expectation is that I can run GC even when building software, > thanks to the guix-daemon's safe concurrent garbage collection > algorithm. That’s correct. -- Ricardo
