GNU bug report logs - #60141
Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>

Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:35:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Merged with 60139, 60140

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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Report forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#60141; Package guix. (Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:35:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-guix <at> gnu.org. (Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:35:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on fresh Ubuntu 22.04
 guix install
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 17:15:37 +0000
My system administrator just installed guix for me thanks to it being so easy on Ubuntu.

To show it off, I wanted to make a quick demonstration to a colleague on how it makes it easy to create a reproducible python environment using `guix shell`. That command didn't seem to exist on the version of guix available from ubuntu (1.3.0). Not anticipating any problems, I thought I just needed to run `guix pull`.

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
me <at> ubuntu:~$ guix pull
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 8548ba5 (45,920 new commits)...
Building from this channel:
...
#+END_QUOTE

That errored out for me at the "computing derivation" stage the first time I ran it. 

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
./guix/store.scm:1419:15: ERROR:
  1. &store-protocol-error:
      message: "`/usr/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly"
      status: 1
guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/4fcbgpasw95hrbz7n7pnx6wnsc174vds-compute-guix-derivation'
failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "8548ba5847417eabe14aa08fa9861f91743bd3a1"; system: "x86_64-linux";
host version: "1.3.0"; pull-version: 1).
Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>.
#+END_QUOTE

Thankfully, running `guix pull` again immediately afterwards worked. This left me with the following familiar output.

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
building profile with 1 package...
hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running:

     GUIX_PROFILE="/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"
     . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/home/u548962/.config/guix/current"'.

hint: After setting `PATH', run `hash guix' to make sure your shell refers to `/home/u548962/.config/guix/current/bin/guix'.
#+END_QOUTE

 Being that this is a foreign distro, I thought I needed to run the hint lines to get the updated guix executable in my current terminal.

Instead, now I see:

#+BEGIN_QUOTE
me <at> ubuntu:~$ GUIX_PROFILE="/home/me/.config/guix/current"
me <at> ubuntu:~$ . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
me <at> ubuntu:~$ hash guix
me <at> ubuntu:~$ guix shell --help
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
u548962 <at> mdu20prst01:~$ guix --help
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
u548962 <at> mdu20prst01:~$ guix
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)
#+END_QUOTE

I was hopeful, but now the guix command does nothing at all.



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Merged 60139 60141. Request was from Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:58:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Merged 60139 60140 60141. Request was from Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 17 Dec 2022 17:43:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Information forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#60141; Package guix. (Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:28:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #12 received at 60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>
To: "60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Follow-up
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:27:34 +0000
I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello
$ {{source the profile}}
$ hello
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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Information forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#60141; Package guix. (Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:44:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #15 received at 60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>
To: "60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Follow-up
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:43:47 +0000
My system administrator let me know that the terminal I was presented with was sandboxed by RStudio Server (not running on Guix) and that this was responsible for causing the error.

I was able to run the hello command from an unsandboxed shell. I was also able to pull the latest version of guix using the same method.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrews, Kyle (KC) 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 5:28 PM
To: 60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Follow-up

I moved .config/guix to .config/guix.bkp and that allowed me to execute the basic guix 1.3.0 commands again. However, whatever I create the result is always the same. I get segmentation fault (core dumped). For example:

$ guix install hello
$ {{source the profile}}
$ hello
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

General Business




Information forwarded to bug-guix <at> gnu.org:
bug#60141; Package guix. (Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:21:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #18 received at 60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com>
Cc: "60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#60141: Stack smashing detected after first guix pull on
 fresh Ubuntu 22.04 guix install
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:20:28 +0100
Hi,

"Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com> skribis:

> My system administrator let me know that the terminal I was presented with was sandboxed by RStudio Server (not running on Guix) and that this was responsible for causing the error.
>
> I was able to run the hello command from an unsandboxed shell. I was also able to pull the latest version of guix using the same method.

Thanks for reporting back.  My guess would be that RStudio Server was
setting ‘LD_LIBRARY_PATH’, which in turn caused ‘guix’ to use the wrong
shared library at run-time, leading to that segfault.

I gather we can close this issue now, thanks.

Ludo’.




Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:21:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug closed, send any further explanations to 60141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Andrews, Kyle (KC)" <KCAndrews <at> dow.com> Request was from Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:21:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Wed, 15 Feb 2023 12:24:07 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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