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-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/offload.scm7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/offload.scm b/guix/scripts/offload.scm
index 1d86f99ca8..0761d68492 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/offload.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/offload.scm
@@ -317,7 +317,12 @@ hook."
(let ((pipe (remote-pipe machine OPEN_READ
`("guile" "-c" ,(object->string script)))))
(get-string-all pipe)
- (close-pipe pipe)))
+ (let ((status (close-pipe pipe)))
+ (unless (zero? status)
+ ;; Better be safe than sorry: if we ignore the error here, then FILE
+ ;; may be GC'd just before we start using it.
+ (leave (_ "failed to register GC root for '~a' on '~a' (status: ~a)~%")
+ file machine status)))))
(define (remove-gc-root machine)
"Remove from MACHINE the GC root previously installed with