Hi Maxim, > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > guix build --quiet --check $(guix package -A | head -n 11 | cut -f1)
[...] > guix build: error: all build users are currently in use; consider creating > additional users and adding them to the `guixbuild' group > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In my case, it starts to download substitutes (but I have remove --quiet), something like: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% 11.3 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/…-jansson-2.12 /gnu/store/…-jemalloc-5.2.1 /gnu/store/…-libev-4.31 /gnu/store/…-glibc-2.31 /gnu/store/…-glibc-2.31-static /gnu/store/…-c-ares-1.16.0 /gnu/store/…-nghttp2-1.41.0-lib /gnu/store/…-nghttp2-1.41.0 substituting /gnu/store/…-c-ares-1.16.0... downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/84hjhzjypgp5pgh6r5y7m561lk625\ pn0-c-ares-1.16.0 ... c-ares-1.16.0 123KiB 1.6MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% substituting /gnu/store/…-jansson-2.12... downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/v5rgf8v6cjxjbngkzjcznj98dkxj8\ svg-jansson-2.12 ... jansson-2.12 27KiB 4.3MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% […] 13.2 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/…-cyrus-sasl-2.1.27 /gnu/store/…-glibc-2.31 /gnu/store/…-glibc-2.31-static /gnu/store/…-gnutls-3.6.12 /gnu/store/…-openldap-2.4.50 substituting /gnu/store/…-cyrus-sasl-2.1.27... downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/xp8545c74xkkj12q41d1zl5wngb47\ 7gj-cyrus-sasl-2.1.27 ... cyrus-sasl-2.1.27 234K […] 28.0 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/…-pcre-8.44-bin /gnu/store/…-pcre-8.44 /gnu/store/…-mpfr-4.0.2 /gnu/store/…-rasqal-0.9.33 /gnu/store/…-libxslt-1.1.34 /gnu/store/…-raptor2-2.0.15 /gnu/store/…-glib-2.62.6 /gnu/store/…-dbus-1.12.16 /gnu/store/…-glib-2.62.6-bin /gnu/store/…-glib-2.62.6 /gnu/store/…-avahi-0.8 /gnu/store/…-4store-1.1.6 /gnu/store/…-a2ps-4.14 /gnu/store/…-mesa-20.0.8-bin /gnu/store/…-mesa-20.0.8 […] The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/…-abbaye-2.0.1.drv /gnu/store/…-sdl-union-1.2.15.drv /gnu/store/…-0ad-0.0.23b-alpha.drv 899.1 MB will be downloaded: /gnu/store/…-libsodium-1.0.18 /gnu/store/…-mozjs-38.2.1.rc0 […] /gnu/store/…-ed-1.16 /gnu/store/…-patch-2.7.6 /gnu/store/…-diffutils-3.7 […] successfully built /gnu/store/…-sdl-union-1.2.15.drv building /gnu/store/…-0ad-0.0.23b-alpha.drv... WARNING: (guile-user): imported module (guix build utils) overrides core bindin\ g `delete' starting phase `set-SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH' phase `set-SOURCE-DATE-EPOCH' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `set-paths' environment variable `PATH' … […] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And I even tried with "-n21" and it seems ok. I am running Guix on the top of Debian with ext4. > The key is passing more than 10 packages (I have 10 build users) as an > argument when using the '--check' argument. Well, I am not sure to understand, but in nix/libstore/build.cc, "void UserLock::acquire()", there is: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- foreach (Strings::iterator, i, users) { […] if (lockFile(fd, ltWrite, false)) { […] return; } } throw Error(format("all build users are currently in use; " "consider creating additional users and adding them to the `%1%' group") % settings.buildUsersGroup); --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So maybe the file is locked for whatever other reason on your machine? All the best, simon
