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So my server that runs https://gnucode.meis a guix system linode server! Woo
hoo!
Well lately the server is being a right pain, and it refuses to update. Most
likely my server is lonely and just wants a hug.
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix system describe
Generation 20 Aug 17 2023 07:45:06 (current)
file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-20-link
canonical file name: /gnu/store/g10d07ab2hfspvj0wglwlicmphi9ly07-system
label: GNU with Linux-Libre 6.3.13
bootloader: grub
root device: /dev/sda
kernel: /gnu/store/224j20diq0qgxqzmh1hgsp35zi3qn9jc-linux-libre-6.3.13/bzImage
channels:
guix:
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 210bbf9c59355218fec1484a686cc2ecdc218506
guixrus:
repository URL: https://git.sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus
branch: master
commit: d70a9ea65eba43aba3ec7560d797452c01171b85
nonguix:
repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
branch: master
commit: 1a3082c574077aaf6771ff927e725fc390a2d531
configuration file: /gnu/store/8xi1rqijhlafnrvzrgla7k3qlkl9jsfw-configuration.scm
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix describe
Generation 2 Aug 17 2023 07:11:45 (current)
guix 1b2d43f
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 1b2d43fe016848ea2ec16ff18cbc14340944fc4e
#+END_SRC
I have used guix deploy in the past to update my linode server, which works
super awesomely well! But lately, guix deploy no longer updates my linode
server.
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@laptopT400 $ guix deploy gnucode.me-current-config.scm -x -- sudo herd restart nginx
guix deploy: sending 12 store items (133 MiB) to '45.56.66.20'...
guix deploy: copertino: command succeeded
guix deploy: command output on copertino:
Service user-homes has been started.
Service nginx has been started.
#+END_SRC
Let's see if gnucode.me has been updated:
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix describe
Aug 2023 # (the same date as before)
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix system describe
Aug 2023 # (the same date as before)
#+END_SRC
/run/current-system/configuration.scm is the old configuration and not the new
one. What gives?
So it appears that guix deploy is not updating my server. That's annoying. I've
been guix deploying my server happily for a while now, and I didn't even realize
that the server was failing to update.
Well, I had a similar issue, where my laptop was really outdated...guix pull was
failing. To update my laptop I built guix from source. I described that here:
Well, since guix deploy fails to update my linode server, I tried running guix
pull: First I powered down the linode and updated the vm so that it had 4GB of
RAM.
Then at 2pm today, I ran guix pull. It started building stuff, and I let it sit.
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix pull
# more output above
building /gnu/store/lb5b7svdmfj1ijnzrripsjcv0bhqzpwb-Python-3.5.9.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/z8kqgsx6yh2mpm0n2jhzk1phihdscazf-datefudge_1.23.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/9cl9w041lwjz607f5l6pzjzgixdl1jjm-Python-3.5.9.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/8r73jwy621pvmbfyk34w0gqf65sff9di-elfutils-0.187.tar.bz2.drv...
building /gnu/store/0innk69jqi1zadpwyi8p9szdl95l2lk0-expat-2.5.0.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/3zysg963rlp01rpkjwsi8qzfr84kwd9d-gcc-11.3.0.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/lpkc0wsvgbfz0qwxn1nckh88n4xrg1kg-gettext-0.19.8.1.tar.gz.drv...
building /gnu/store/g6qb58plai65zdps620ny2rfif1z42s0-gettext-0.21.tar.gz.drv...
building /gnu/store/dc2y0rldz6wadknqz4jl6zjb7l4xsay5-glibc-2.35.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/gb6lfdzqprh1fmw91kpkclywg8sbrwg3-glibc-mesboot0-2.2.5.drv...
/ 'install' phase^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[|
building /gnu/store/5s4cfyc3w6jn958jn1i09g6my4g7l9l4-glibc-2.35.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/qm63mzpmzriksa9vi0gl977h7qhcmgkg-gcc-mesboot0-2.95.3.drv...
building /gnu/store/1hrskysmxkyblhw8mpkkz1m2jn4g0f8s-gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/cfbs6ysgyrqwfgbkd15gkbf7brgfgvk3-binutils-mesboot1-2.20.1a.drv...
building /gnu/store/b4xy58rqb3cqw2wiip8l0ibf9crk13zd-gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/1vp4cjnwxr55basnbjr4vfd5l5pmf41c-gnutls-3.8.3.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/j9vzm9yrkzfsgjpliab737fllq6kkm7q-guile-lib-0.2.8.tar.gz.drv...
building /gnu/store/wh7yqmqk07p7xby179razdbp6ysgqygl-isl-0.24.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/c3ds6y32xq9xck076apm525qqvp649ia-libffi-3.4.4.tar.gz.drv...
building /gnu/store/nn8hm6242hfwv906v1dy2m7sq3yv3hsh-libunistring-1.0.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/05nznjzl8qfsdps7wd51852babfvrndw-m4-1.4.19.tar.xz.drv...
building /gnu/store/6hqxh7hlcarn7l3y32pn4l3gkjbpkjia-make-mesboot-3.82.drv...
building /gnu/store/jxg62mw1619fznmnq3b7if5nv08s5q1i-module-import-compiled.drv...
building /gnu/store/gmw2a5zxc6liilr8jwpdw51isfrbrkis-gcc-mesboot1-4.6.4.drv...
- 'build' phas-
\
\ 'build' phas/^C
#+END_SRC
I started the guix pull command at 2pm today. It's now 5pm, and the server is
trying to build gcc-mesboot0 or o
Let's check guix weather shall we?
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix weather
88.0% substitutes available (25,358 out of 28,805)
at least 102,748.6 MiB of nars (compressed)
177,798.9 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
0.009 seconds per request (32.5 seconds in total)
106.0 requests per second
0.0% (0 out of 3,447) of the missing items are queued
at least 1,000 queued builds
aarch64-linux: 974 (97.4%)
i686-linux: 14 (1.4%)
x86_64-linux: 11 (1.1%)
powerpc64le-linux: 1 (.1%)
build rate: 22.87 builds per hour
powerpc64le-linux: 2.10 builds per hour
i686-linux: 10.75 builds per hour
x86_64-linux: 9.42 builds per hour
aarch64-linux: 0.53 builds per hour
armhf-linux: 0.03 builds per hour
i586-gnu: 0.05 builds per hour
looking for 28,805 store items on https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org...
96.9% substitutes available (27,923 out of 28,805)
at least 72,788.8 MiB of nars (compressed)
216,904.7 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
0.005 seconds per request (135.6 seconds in total)
191.3 requests per second
(continuous integration information unavailable)
#+END_SRC
Hmmm, that is really odd.
So let's try to update my linode server by building it from source eh? Since my
linode server only has 1 GB of RAM, I temporarily updated it to 4GB of RAM.
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix gc && guix shell --pure --check -D guix
That above command took 4 hours to complete. Guix shell took forever to build stuff. I saw some odd stuff that was getting built. :(
./ bootstrap -> worked
./configure -> failed with:
checking for gzip... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/gzip
checking for bzip2... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/bzip2
checking for xz... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/xz
checking for git... no
configure: error: Git is missing; please install it.checking for bzip2... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/bzip2
checking for gzip... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/gzip
checking for xz... /gnu/store/b914k2bjm3wixvd2kc9s03mzvfsif69c-profile/bin/xz
checking for git... no
configure: error: Git is missing; please install it.
I do have git installed on my server, but the "--pure" command blocked that.
So let's try doing what the manual actually says to do:
guix shell -D guix -CPW
./configure
checking for xz... /home/joshua/.guix-profile/bin/xz
checking for git... no
configure: error: Git is missing; please install it.
Ok, let's abide by the manual a little more and add in these helpful additional packages.
guix shell -D guix help2man git strace -CPW
./configure
make
sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ../guix-config/linode-guix-system-configuration/gnucode.me-current-config.scm
The above command failed a few times, because I had to tweak the gnucode.me-current-config.scm file. First I had to change dovecot-service to dovecot-service-type. Then I had to get rid of the deploy stuff in the file. Then I was able to rerun the command and it worked:
sudo -E ./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ../guix-config/linode-guix-system-configuration/gnucode.me-current-config.scm
This command also took a LONG time! It was building glibc-mesboot0, and other very low level stuff.
Someone on irc said that I should take a look at what guix weather said
joshua@gnucode.me $ guix weather
guix weather: warning: using default substitute URLs
computing 30,045 package derivations for x86_64-linux...
looking for 35,187 store items on https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org...
guix weather: warning: substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' are unauthorized
hint: To authorize all substitutes from `https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org' to be downloaded, the following command
needs to be run as root:
guix archive --authorize <<EOF
(public-key
(ecc
(curve Ed25519)
(q #7D602902D3A2DBB83F8A0FB98602A754C5493B0B778C8D1DD4E0F41DE14DE34F#)
)
)
EOF
Alternatively, on Guix System, you can add the signing key above to the `authorized-keys' field of
`guix-configuration'.
See "Getting Substitutes from Other Servers" in the manual for more information.
94.8% substitutes available (33,354 out of 35,187)
at least 74,939.1 MiB of nars (compressed)
231,752.9 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
0.016 seconds per request (573.7 seconds in total)
61.3 requests per second
(continuous integration information unavailable)
looking for 35,187 store items on https://ci.guix.gnu.org...
guix weather: warning: substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org' are unauthorized
hint: To authorize all substitutes from `https://ci.guix.gnu.org' to be downloaded, the following command needs to
be run as root:
guix archive --authorize <<EOF
(public-key
(ecc
(curve Ed25519)
(q #8D156F295D24B0D9A86FA5741A840FF2D24F60F7B6C4134814AD55625971B394#)
)
)
EOF
Alternatively, on Guix System, you can add the signing key above to the `authorized-keys' field of
`guix-configuration'.
See "Getting Substitutes from Other Servers" in the manual for more information.
98.0% substitutes available (34,499 out of 35,187)
at least 158,714.5 MiB of nars (compressed)
258,440.0 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
0.005 seconds per request (179.5 seconds in total)
196.0 requests per second
0.0% (0 out of 688) of the missing items are queued
at least 1,000 queued builds
aarch64-linux: 998 (99.8%)
i686-linux: 1 (.1%)
powerpc64le-linux: 1 (.1%)
build rate: 19.71 builds per hour
x86_64-linux: 10.17 builds per hour
aarch64-linux: 0.82 builds per hour
powerpc64le-linux: 1.20 builds per hour
i686-linux: 9.27 builds per hour
armhf-linux: 0.06 builds per hour
i586-gnu: 0.07 builds per hour
Ok let's try to authorize those gpg keys eh?
#+BEGIN_SRC shell
joshua@copertino ~/prog/gnu/guix/guix-src$ bash
joshua@copertino ~/prog/gnu/guix/guix-src$ su
Password:
root@copertino /home/joshua/prog/gnu/guix/guix-src# ./pre-inst-env guix archive --authorize <<EOF
(public-key
(ecc
(curve Ed25519)
(q #8D156F295D24B0D9A86FA5741A840FF2D24F60F7B6C4134814AD55625971B394#)
)
)
EOF
Toggle quote (6 lines)
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>
> # why is this not working?
> # I am pressing return...please be done
> # what more do you want me silly program?
> ^C
#+END_SRC
I'm pretty sure that didn't work... but let's check guix weather again to see if
my signing keys work.
#+BEGIN_SRC
./pre-inst-env guix weather
# I ran out of time and had to run
#+END_SRC
Hopefully I will update the server soon. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Joshua