Re: Unable to bootstrap Guix without substitutes

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:

> Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> writes:
>
>> When installing the Guix binary distribution (both the 1.3.0 release
>> and most recent guix-binary on ci.guix.gnu.org) on a new system
>> without enabling substitutes the guix pull or install commands fail
>> when building bash-mesboot0.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> The error from the log:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> checking whether #! works in shell scripts... [snip scary backtrace] yes
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I can perform the build successfully using
>
>     $ guix build --check \
>         -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) bash-masboot0)'
>
> That scary backtrace happens even for the successful build, so I’m
> pretty sure it is not the issue.  (Note that the configure test succeeds
> in the end with a “yes”.)

Could it be <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49985>?

Specifically, the problem occurs when building on NVMe disks.

Ludo’.