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When I install GuixSD on my computer, not VM, it fails at downloading the package webkitgtk-2.20.5 each time. The progress of its downloading is from 71 to 78%. There is an info that a device is full:

guix system: error: build failed: writing to file: No space left on device

But a df -h comamnd shows that even 16G is available on /mnt mounting. How to fix it and finish the installation? Here you are a terminal info:

(...) downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/mmnv4y0n0mmddhfpjjr9mzfy5994542z-gnome-disk-utility-3.28.3... gnome-disk-utility-3.28.3 2.0MiB 52KiB/s 00:39 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/f9rjpq9m5cmp7abkqb3y7xrg4r0ip02c-gst-plugins-good-1.14.3... gst-plugins-good-1.14.3 2.9MiB 44KiB/s 01:07 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/shs1ps27f75mrx3chird1riwfl1k09hj-gvfs-1.32.1... gvfs-1.32.1 2.1MiB 54KiB/s 00:40 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/pwxpnpqg3cjbx5v88idfg49x7236b56h-totem-3.26.2... totem-3.26.2 3.0MiB 52KiB/s 01:00 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/jxpax5lv5affxqxidlwa7b7wk8jvsccb-nautilus-3.26.2... nautilus-3.26.2 5.1MiB 48KiB/s 01:49 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5... guix substitute: error: fport_write: No space left on device 50KiB/s 10:20 [############ ] 71.5% webkitgtk-2.20.5 42.3MiB 50KiB/s 10:21 [############ ] 71.5%gzip: stdout: Broken pipe substitution of /gnu/store/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5 failed 70KiB/s 10:21 [##################] 100.0%killing process 12511 guix system: error: build failed: writing to file: No space left on device root@gnu ~# guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt --skip-checks --fallback downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/6g29969ca9klj136ml68qg96kdvd4if1-xdg-user-dirs-0.17... xdg-user-dirs-0.17 47KiB 705KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5... guix substitute: error: fport_write: No space left on device 52KiB/s 10:35 [############# ] 76.9% webkitgtk-2.20.5 42.3MiB 52KiB/s 10:36 [############# ] 76.9%gzip: stdout: Broken pipe substitution of /gnu/store/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5 failed 68KiB/s 10:36 [##################] 100.0%killing process 12556 guix system: error: build failed: writing to file: No space left on device root@gnu ~# guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt --skip-checks --fallback downloading from https://ci.guix.info/nar/gzip/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5... guix substitute: error: fport_write: No space left on device 47KiB/s 11:46 [############# ] 76.9% webkitgtk-2.20.5 42.3MiB 47KiB/s 11:47 [############# ] 77.0%gzip: stdout: Broken pipe substitution of /gnu/store/fd706jbvrk8zvk6175sz42xqbgc3krsg-webkitgtk-2.20.5 failed 61KiB/s 11:47 [##################] 100.0%killing process 12594 guix system: error: build failed: writing to file: No space left on device root@gnu ~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev none 2.0G 2.0G 312K 100% / none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /tmp tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdc1 18G 986M 16G 6% /mnt root@gnu ~#
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guix system: error: build failed: writing to file: No space left on device

You should enable cow before initializing the system:

herd start cow-store /mnt

6.1.5 Proceeding with the Installation

herd start cow-store /mnt

This makes /gnu/store copy-on-write, such that packages added to it during the installation phase are written to the target disk on /mnt rather than kept in memory. This is necessary because the first phase of the guix system init command (see below) entails downloads or builds to /gnu/store which, initially, is an in-memory file system.

the webkitgtk is a dependency for the gnome-desktop defaut browser. The derivative build may take a long time because you have enabled the local buid through --fallback option.

--fallback

When substituting a pre-built binary fails, fall back to building packages locally (see Substitution Failure).

The default configuration include both Xfce and Gnome ,

 (services (cons* (gnome-desktop-service) (xfce-desktop-service) %desktop-services))

You can install only one desktop by editing the config.scm file. e,g: to install only the Xfce4 desktop:

 (services (cons* (xfce-desktop-service) %desktop-services))
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