GNU bug report logs - #46726
childhurd with swap

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Package: guix-patches; Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail@HIDDEN>; dated Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:36:01 UTC; Maintainer for guix-patches is guix-patches@HIDDEN.

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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@HIDDEN>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@HIDDEN>
Subject: Re: bug#46726: childhurd with swap
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Hi Chris,

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 20:35, Christopher Baines <mail@HIDDEN> wrote:

> It was mentioned on IRC that swap might help stop childhurd's from
> hanging, which I've observed when running guix-build-coordinator agents
> within them.
>
> I had a go at getting a swap partition in to the image [1], but I'm not
> sure how far I got. I could build an image, and the VM would boot, but
> it still wouldn't have any swap, and I couldn't work out how to see if
> the partition looked correct.
>
> 1: https://git.cbaines.net/guix/log/?h=childhurd-swap
>
> Just putting this up here in case anyone else is knowledgeable about
> this,

This is from:

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/46726

without any reply.

Is it worth to keep it open?  Or can we close it and maybe raise the
discussion on guix-devel and/or on Codeberg?

Cheers,
simon





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bug#46726; Package guix-patches. Full text available.

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Hey,

It was mentioned on IRC that swap might help stop childhurd's from
hanging, which I've observed when running guix-build-coordinator agents
within them.

I had a go at getting a swap partition in to the image [1], but I'm not
sure how far I got. I could build an image, and the VM would boot, but
it still wouldn't have any swap, and I couldn't work out how to see if
the partition looked correct.

1: https://git.cbaines.net/guix/log/?h=childhurd-swap

Just putting this up here in case anyone else is knowledgeable about
this,

Chris

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Acknowledgement sent to Christopher Baines <mail@HIDDEN>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to guix-patches@HIDDEN. Full text available.
Report forwarded to guix-patches@HIDDEN:
bug#46726; Package guix-patches. Full text available.
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