# Guix system image hangs on building **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 17, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/guix-system-image-hangs-on-building/2086 "2026-07-17T17:26:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rofrol](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.systemcrafters.net/rofrol/32/1242_2.png) [@rofrol](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/u/rofrol)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/guix-system-image-hangs-on-building/2086/1 "2026-07-17T17:26:45Z")
That is happening after I have done guix pull && guix reconfigure. ```auto guix system reconfigure /mnt/shared/minimal.scm guix system image -t qcow2-gpt --save-provenance --image-size=20G /mnt/shared/minimal.scm building /gnu/store/87mqqcgiqxyn1dwb3faxqzlpxs2g3zv0-partition.img.drv... ``` Previously on clean official qcow2 image image was created succesfully. I am on qemu-system-aarch64 UPDATE: It worked finally: ```auto building /gnu/store/87mqqcgiqxyn1dwb3faxqzlpxs2g3zv0-partition.img.drv... building /gnu/store/y09bjma2rvhg31h7d1fv9ysj73z6l3if-partition.img.drv... building /gnu/store/7n2711f0a09zj7gdczl4j3qgsaip315a-genimage.cfg.drv... building /gnu/store/ml2rnc7lqhd623qrp8ky29wpwpi644cn-image.qcow2.drv... /gnu/store/q3s9ga4zfpl5dwb1pjcawhh8a4scsg2q-image.qcow2 real 19m41.740s user 0m7.152s sys 0m0.810s ``` ---
**Author:** ![aionfork](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.systemcrafters.net/aionfork/32/1243_2.png) [@aionfork](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/u/aionfork)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.systemcrafters.net/t/guix-system-image-hangs-on-building/2086/2 "2026-07-18T11:51:35Z")
those final steps always take a long time. on an older archlinux install. i was having to screw with my tmpfs size to build the kernel for guix occasionally. that’s another thing that can happen.