# guix build gn-uploader: error

## Tags

* assigned: fredm, aruni
* status: open
* priority: critical
* 
* keywords: guix, gn-uploader

## Description

Trying to build `gn-uploader` with

> $ guix build -L /home/frederick/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics gn-uploader

in my local development fails with:

```
︙
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure utime: No such file or directory
builder for `/gnu/store/i8pxiq0xlal1z4ifgqplvhizraj75lc3-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/i8pxiq0xlal1z4ifgqplvhizraj75lc3-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/i8/pxiq0xlal1z4ifgqplvhizraj75lc3-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv.gz'.
guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/i8pxiq0xlal1z4ifgqplvhizraj75lc3-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv' failed
```

with the file having some of the following

```
︙
phase `unpack' succeeded after 48.0 seconds
starting phase `ensure-no-mtimes-pre-1980'
error: in phase 'ensure-no-mtimes-pre-1980': uncaught exception:
system-error "utime" "~A" ("No such file or directory") (2)
phase `ensure-no-mtimes-pre-1980' failed after 0.0 seconds
Backtrace:
  13 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/qhg4m0nrrs3862fk9nzgxxrc0hj…")
In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
  908:2 12 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1752:10 11 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
︙
```

Building on tux02 with the same commit raises the error

```
︙
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure copy-file: No space left on device
note: build failure may have been caused by lack of free disk space
builder for `/gnu/store/ra3f63zk1jr980vbhgcx5ssifr87bq8n-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/ra3f63zk1jr980vbhgcx5ssifr87bq8n-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/ra/3f63zk1jr980vbhgcx5ssifr87bq8n-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv.gz'.
guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/ra3f63zk1jr980vbhgcx5ssifr87bq8n-gn-uploader-0.0.1-bf4f7c56.drv' failed
```

with the error file containing

```
︙
`/gnu/store/h0zywgd0i8m6ssnyq5ngx34r1c26a65s-git-checkout/tests/test_data/standarderror_1_error_at_end.tsv' -> `./tests/test_data/standarderror_1_error_at_end.tsv'
error: in phase 'unpack': uncaught exception:
system-error "copy-file" "~A" ("No space left on device") (28) 
phase `unpack' failed after 2.8 seconds
Backtrace:
          17 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/qhg4m0nrrs3862fk9nzgxxrc0hj<E2><80><A6>")
In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm:
    908:2 16 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
︙
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure copy-file: No space left on device
```

There is plenty of space on the tux02:

```
$ df -h /gnu /tmp
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme1n1p5  117G   82G   29G  74% /gnu
/dev/nvme1n1p2   30G   26G  2.1G  93% /
```

so we know that's not a problem.

A similar thing had shown up on space.uthsc.edu.

### More Troubleshooting Efforts

I have attempted to do ~guix pull~ in case the version of guix I had was the problem to no avail.

I have even attempted checking out
=> https://git.genenetwork.org/guix-bioinformatics/commit/?h=fred-updates-20240313&id=869598d39a532c6acc83bb0b9d21baaa79476973 commit 869598d39a532c6acc83bb0b9d21baaa79476973
and creating a branch from it then
=> https://git.genenetwork.org/guix-bioinformatics/commit/?h=fred-updates-20240313&id=4105a3e463982f46dcc9a537267fb77bb2322b9a updating the commit and hash
in the new branch, but I still get the same failures above.