GNU bug report logs - #24053
guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:19:28 -0400

On my i686 GuixSD machine, the following command consistently fails:

  mhw <at> jojen:~$ guix download file:///home/mhw/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
  guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe

The file is 2071190200 bytes, which is about 73 MiB less than 2 GiB.
I have 2 GiB of RAM and 4 GiB of swap.

My guix client is v0.10.0-1899-g0f971a0.  My guix-daemon is 0.10.0.

     Mark

Message #10 received at 24053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: 24053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24053: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 00:18:10 -0400

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> On my i686 GuixSD machine, the following command consistently fails:
>
>   mhw <at> jojen:~$ guix download file:///home/mhw/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
>   guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe
>
> The file is 2071190200 bytes, which is about 73 MiB less than 2 GiB.
> I have 2 GiB of RAM and 4 GiB of swap.
>
> My guix client is v0.10.0-1899-g0f971a0.  My guix-daemon is 0.10.0.

I tried adding the same file using 'add-to-store' directly from the
REPL.  'guile' exited with status code 141, without printing an error
message:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mhw <at> jojen:~$ guix/pre-inst-env guile
GNU Guile 2.0.11
Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix)
scheme@(guile-user)> (define s (open-connection))
scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store s "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz" #f "sha256" "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz")
mhw <at> jojen:~$ echo $?
141
mhw <at> jojen:~$ ls -l texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 mhw mhw 2071190200 Jul 20 01:08 texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

       Mark

Message #13 received at 24053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 24053 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24053: guix download file:// fails with a ~2 GB file on i686
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:14:20 +0200

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:

> scheme@(guile-user)> ,use (guix)
> scheme@(guile-user)> (define s (open-connection))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (add-to-store s "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz" #f "sha256" "texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz")
> mhw <at> jojen:~$ echo $?
> 141

(status:term-sig 141) = 13 (SIGPIPE), which makes sense: the daemon’s
child process at the other end received SIGKILL due to an OOM condition.

We don’t see that from the CLI because commands ignore SIGPIPE (see
‘initialize-guix’ in (guix ui)).

Ludo’.

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