On 02/18/2014 05:29 PM, David Knight wrote: > it downloads about 277M of files (up to guile-2.0.9.tar.xz) into > /nix/store then errors with "guix package: error: build failed: unable > to fork: Invalid argument". Rerunning the command gives the same error > message.
It is common to install those many files. They come from bootstrap packages and are required. > > The same error shows on two different distros (LFS and Gentoo on i686), > and with both Guix 0.5 and cloned from git. Guix 0.5 'make check' > passes all tests, and the git version from today passes all tests except > 'topologically-sorted, more difficult' in store.scm. Other guix package > commands such a --search= and --list-available seem to work as expected. I am suspecting that this is a problem with you kernel configuration. Do you have the namespaces available (the following options) in your config? CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y CONFIG_UTS_NS=y CONFIG_IPC_NS=y CONFIG_USER_NS=y CONFIG_PID_NS=y CONFIG_NET_NS=y -- Sree
