Re: Initial installation - stuck at installing python (killing process)

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Hallo,

On 19/03/2016, dptdescribe <address@hidden> wrote:
> We all know that hydra is being overloaded all the time. The guix system
> init process is failing on random packages due to the network issues. I am
> rerunning the command every time. However something strange happens at
> python package. Every time after downloading 15.3M the process is being
> killed but is it?

It's not you, it's Hydra.

I got the same error (also consistently at 15.3M) yesterday. I suspect
an incompletely cached file in the front end, but that's just a guess.
Maybe someone else knows.

The good news: adding a ‘--fallback’ switch to build Python locally
should do the trick. It did here. Just be prepared to wait a while on
a slower VM.

Kind regards,

T G-R