Help with Guix pull and guix system reconfigure

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Hey guys, I’ve recently installed guix on my pc, and was doing some post intallation stuff, like using guix pull and than guix system -E reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system.scm, but i’m getting a few errors that I can’t work around.

The result for guix pull is the following:

cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/iwsf3gkckkijf3szcvafv24ba5gwnh62-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix pull: erro: build of `/gnu/store/iwsf3gkckkijf3szcvafv24ba5gwnh62-profile.drv' failed

and for guix system reconfigure:

guix system: error: fail to load ".config/guix/system.scm":
ice-9/boot-9.scm:3330:6: In procedure resolve-interface:
no code for module (nongnu packages linux)

At some point guix system reconfigure was kinda working, and was doing it stuff, until the point were it couldn’t compile the linux kernel.

I tried looking into the var logs, and it said at the end:

libbpf: failed to find '.BTF' ELF section in vmlinux
FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: No data available
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:37: vmlinux] Error 255
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'vmlinux'
make[1]: *** [/tmp/guix-build-linux-6.9.4.drv-0/linux-6.9.4/Makefile:1160: vmlinux] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:240: __sub-make] Error 2
error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception:
%exception #<&invoke-error program: "make" arguments: ("-j" "8") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f> 
phase `build' failed after 5247.6 seconds
command "make" "-j" "8" failed with status 2

I tried installing libelf and libbpf packages, but it did nothing, instead of stoping guix pull from going trough.

Does anyone knows how to adress it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Hello,

The reconfigure error seems to indicate it does not know where to find nonguix Linux.

Try guix pull -C /where-your-channels-file-is (/etc/guix/channels.scm maybe?)

Cheers,
TH

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Hi,

I tried what you suggested, as follows: guix pull -C ~/.config/guix/channels.scm. The result was:

the compilation of /gnu/store/sbkas5640mgbgyxrnlw8j07jis9ca2yb-nonguix.drv falhou
See the compilation log in
"/var/log/guix/drvs/sb/kas5640mgbgyxrnlw8j07jis9ca2yb-nonguix.drv.gz".
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/8dcnbnpcahhrf8r7bmyyj5ayccm9d5l3-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix pull: erro: build of `/gnu/store/8dcnbnpcahhrf8r7bmyyj5ayccm9d5l3-profile.drv' failed

Here’s my channels.scm file:

(list (channel
        (name 'guix)
        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
        (branch "master")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))
      (channel
        (name 'nonguix)
        (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29  12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5")))))

And some of my system.scm :

(use-modules (gnu)
	     (nongnu packages linux)
	     (nongnu system linux-initrd))

(use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg)

(operating-system
 (kernel linux)
 (initrd microcode-initrd)
 (firmware (list linux-firmware))

Any idea how to procced?

Thanks a lot!

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Do you find more details in the generated log ?

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We removed linux-libre-6.8 from guix proper yesterday as it was end of life for a while now; this caused libbpf which was specifically depending on linux-libre-6.8 headers to break, as the variable wasn’t available anymore, which then caused guix pull to break for a few hours as there now was a dysfunctional package in guix. I’d say you could try to guix system reconfigure again & everything should work as expected now.

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Hey guys,

One way i was able to make guix system reconfigure to work yesterday was to run guix build /gnu/store/...linux.6.9.4 on it’s own. Then, the first command worked just fine. Maybe it just needed some time as pointed out for @theesm.

Thanks a lot for all the help!

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Hey @theesm, how are you?

As it turns out, I said that the issue was resolved, however, later on I tried another guix system reconfigure just to make sure everything was ok. And for my surprise, the error persisted. When I looked into the logs, I got this:

.
.
.
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 111:9528 killed                           LLVM_OBJCOPY="${OBJCOPY}" ${PAHOLE} -J ${PAHOLE_FLAGS} ${1}
LD          .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
.btf.vmlinux.bin.o: file not recognized: file format not recofnized
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:37: vmlinux] Error 1
make[1] *** [/tmp/guix-build-linux-6.9.4.drv-0/linux-6.9.4/Makefile:1160:vmlinux] Error 2
error: in phase 'build' : uncaught exception:
%exception #<&invoke-error program: "make" arguments: ("-j" "8") exit-status: 2 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f>
phase `build` failed after 4588.0 seconds
command "make" "-j" "8" failed with status 2

Can you help me with this?

Thanks a lot!