Building nixpkgs in non-chroot, NSS modules may fail and that will report EAI_SYSTEM in getaddrinfo. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794696 Index: guile-2.0.7/test-suite/tests/net-db.test =================================================================== --- guile-2.0.7.orig/test-suite/tests/net-db.test +++ guile-2.0.7/test-suite/tests/net-db.test @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ (and (defined? 'EAI_NODATA) ; GNU extension (= errcode EAI_NODATA)) (= errcode EAI_AGAIN) + (= errcode EAI_SYSTEM) (begin (format #t "unexpected error code: ~a ~s~%" errcode (gai-strerror errcode)) @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ ;; `EAI_NONAME'.) (and (or (= errcode EAI_SERVICE) (= errcode EAI_NONAME) + (= errcode EAI_SYSTEM) (and (defined? 'EAI_NODATA) (= errcode EAI_NODATA))) (string? (gai-strerror errcode))))))))