Hi, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis:
> I don’t think so; the error message that was reported is: > > command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" > "59745" > "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/cite/" > "/tmp/guix-directory.09UnsN/doc/latex/cite/" failed with signal 11 > > It’s a message from ‘report-invoke-error’ in (guix build utils). It’s > really svn that’s segfaulting. Maybe not! I can trigger it reproducibly: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix [env]$ guix describe Generation 223 Aug 01 2022 00:30:24 (current) guix ab59155 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: ab59155c5a38dda7efaceb47c7528578fcf0def4 ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix [env]$ rm -f core ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix [env]$ guix import texlive abstract command "svn" "export" "--non-interactive" "--trust-server-cert" "-r" "59745" "svn://www.tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-2021.3/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/abstract/" "/tmp/guix-directory.HYEHpM/doc/latex/abstract/" failed with signal 11 guix import: error: failed to download description for package 'abstract' ludo@ribbon ~/src/guix [env]$ file core core: ELF 64-bit LSB core file, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/gnu/store/9z95jms1r801z1kxpiq5xw594cxaw5jx-guile-wrapper/bin/guile --no-auto-c', real uid: 1000, effective uid: 1000, real gid: 998, effective gid: 998, execfn: '/home/ludo/.config/guix/current/bin/guix', platform: 'x86_64' --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Actually it happens when ‘svn’ is not in $PATH, triggering a crash in Guile as it tries to display an error in the child process: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ gdb /gnu/store/9z95jms1r801z1kxpiq5xw594cxaw5jx-guile-wrapper/bin/guile core [...] Core was generated by `/gnu/store/9z95jms1r801z1kxpiq5xw594cxaw5jx-guile-wrapper/bin/guile --no-auto-c'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 __vfprintf_internal (s=0x0, format=0x7f9da91744e2 "In execvp of %s: %s\n", ap=ap@entry=0x7ffd286a3c78, mode_flags=mode_flags@entry=0) at vfprintf-internal.c:1359 1359 vfprintf-internal.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 __vfprintf_internal (s=0x0, format=0x7f9da91744e2 "In execvp of %s: %s\n", ap=ap@entry=0x7ffd286a3c78, mode_flags=mode_flags@entry=0) at vfprintf-internal.c:1359 #1 0x00007f9da8ed3589 in __fprintf (stream=<optimized out>, format=<optimized out>) at fprintf.c:32 #2 0x00007f9da913fd93 in ?? () from /gnu/store/1jgcbdzx2ss6xv59w55g3kr3x4935dfb-guile-3.0.8/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1 #3 0x00007f9da9140e01 in scm_system_star () from /gnu/store/1jgcbdzx2ss6xv59w55g3kr3x4935dfb-guile-3.0.8/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1 [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This is because the fdopen(2, "a") call in ‘start_child’ returns NULL: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ ltrace -f -e fdopen /bin/sh -c 'guix import texlive abstract' [pid 22937] --- Called exec() --- [pid 22945] libguile-3.0.so.1->fdopen(2, 0x7fddfd364a4a, -1, -112) = 0 [pid 22945] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- It can be reproduced like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- scheme@(guile-user)> (parameterize ((current-output-port (current-error-port))) (system* "sdfsdf")) $1 = 139 scheme@(guile-user)> (status:term-sig $1) $2 = 11 scheme@(guile-user)> (version) $3 = "3.0.8" --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Fixed in Guile commit 56b1ea9002d2d3967b597aa0ee7595e815b21f23. Back to the original issue Jack and Hugo reported: you need to add ‘svn’ to $PATH to make things work. :-) Thanks, Ludo’.