'guix system reconfigure' can fail to load new system services

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Andreas Enge wrote on 5 Mar 2018 00:06
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Re: Nginx service fails
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Well, I am turning this into a bug report, since it still occurs withthe latest git commit ac1a9ce8b07f3b80900ee08436ff6e683e8dc195 .
This is the result of "./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ...",where "..." is my configuration file:
...creating nginx log directory '/var/log/nginx'creating nginx run directory '/var/run/nginx'creating nginx temp directories '/var/run/nginx/{client_body,proxy,fastcgi,uwsgi,scgi}_temp'nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/gnu/store/pp71iff1qxwhh82vm34g18h9kmn0xrg5-nginx-1.13.9/logs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)nginx: the configuration file /gnu/store/5ixkryw6jl32cm6d1g9jb8dm9rbz8csc-nginx.conf syntax is oknginx: configuration file /gnu/store/5ixkryw6jl32cm6d1g9jb8dm9rbz8csc-nginx.conf test is successful`/gnu/store/zchh8s3r1bbmia3zfxsyhsz3c4b9fmps-openssh-authorized-keys/root' -> `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/root'`/gnu/store/zchh8s3r1bbmia3zfxsyhsz3c4b9fmps-openssh-authorized-keys/andreas' -> `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/andreas'guix system: loading new services: user-homes term-auto nginx...shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?).guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 'root':find-long-options: unbound variableInstalling for i386-pc platform./gnu/store/1dnbfda2p1bxwyl0rcm96ka9pmi0wb88-grub-2.02/sbin/grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/xvda2./gnu/store/1dnbfda2p1bxwyl0rcm96ka9pmi0wb88-grub-2.02/sbin/grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/xvda2./gnu/store/1dnbfda2p1bxwyl0rcm96ka9pmi0wb88-grub-2.02/sbin/grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/xvda2./gnu/store/1dnbfda2p1bxwyl0rcm96ka9pmi0wb88-grub-2.02/sbin/grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda. Check your device.map.guix system: error: failed to install bootloader /gnu/store/9iv63jm07klxvrr4fpwv6q5vpnca13ja-bootloader-installer
The final error is "normal", since I am installing in a Xen virtual machine,where /dev/sda does not exist; it did not matter before.The real error occurs above, the "uncaught exception".
But:# herd status nginxherd: service 'nginx' could not be found
Then I do a# ./pre-inst-env guix system roll-back# herd status nginxherd: service 'nginx' could not be found
Otherwise said, I can go back, but my previously running web server hasdefinitely gone! How do I get it back?
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Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 5 Mar 2018 08:23
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Re: bug#30706: Nginx service fails
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
Toggle quote (20 lines)> Well, I am turning this into a bug report, since it still occurs with> the latest git commit ac1a9ce8b07f3b80900ee08436ff6e683e8dc195 .>> This is the result of "./pre-inst-env guix system reconfigure ...",> where "..." is my configuration file:>> ...> creating nginx log directory '/var/log/nginx'> creating nginx run directory '/var/run/nginx'> creating nginx temp directories '/var/run/nginx/{client_body,proxy,fastcgi,uwsgi,scgi}_temp'> nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/gnu/store/pp71iff1qxwhh82vm34g18h9kmn0xrg5-nginx-1.13.9/logs/error.log" failed (2: No such file or directory)> nginx: the configuration file /gnu/store/5ixkryw6jl32cm6d1g9jb8dm9rbz8csc-nginx.conf syntax is ok> nginx: configuration file /gnu/store/5ixkryw6jl32cm6d1g9jb8dm9rbz8csc-nginx.conf test is successful> `/gnu/store/zchh8s3r1bbmia3zfxsyhsz3c4b9fmps-openssh-authorized-keys/root' -> `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/root'> `/gnu/store/zchh8s3r1bbmia3zfxsyhsz3c4b9fmps-openssh-authorized-keys/andreas' -> `/etc/ssh/authorized_keys.d/andreas'> guix system: loading new services: user-homes term-auto nginx...> shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?).> guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 'root':> find-long-options: unbound variable
I had the same error when updating my i686 netbook after a long while.After a reboot everything seemed to be fine, though.
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Andreas Enge wrote on 5 Mar 2018 08:43
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On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 08:23:18AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Toggle quote (3 lines)> I had the same error when updating my i686 netbook after a long while.> After a reboot everything seemed to be fine, though.
Ah, thanks for the information! A reboot made things worse in my case -I rebooted the virtual machine, and now I cannot ssh into it any more.So it looks like I will have to set it up from scratch again...
In my case, the problem occurred between February 28 and March 4.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 5 Mar 2018 11:09
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
Toggle quote (5 lines)> guix system: loading new services: user-homes term-auto nginx...> shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?).> guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'eval' on service 'root':> find-long-options: unbound variable
The problem we have here is that the agetty service expects‘find-long-options’ from linux-boot.scm, and it expects it at the toplevel.
So what happens above is that we evaluate in PID 1 code like:
(make <service> ;; … #:start (let ((tty … (find-long-options …) …)) …))
If you run this on an “old” GuixSD, ‘find-long-options’ is undefined.
Thus the whole (register-services …) expression fails to evaluate, andwe end up with some of the services missing.
Conclusions:
1. ‘guix system reconfigure’ should probably register services one by one so that if one of the service expressions is erroneous, we don’t bork everything. See ‘upgrade-shepherd-services’.
2. IWBN to delay execution of this whole default-tty thing to the #:start method. Ideas, Danny?
In general we should do as little as possible at the top level in theShepherd config file.
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Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 6 Mar 2018 17:24
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(name . Ludovic Courtès)(address . ludo@gnu.org)
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Hi Ludo,
Toggle quote (2 lines)> If you run this on an “old” GuixSD, ‘find-long-options’ is undefined.
How can it be that (gnu services base) with find-long-options call is presentbut the (gnu build linux-boot)'s find-long options isn't present?
Aren't they either both added by "guix system reconfigure" (or both removed)?
Also when selecting an old generation in the Grub boot menu, isn't both(gnu build linux-boot) and (gnu services base) at the same generation whenstarting up the service (as opposed to stopping the old service)?
Toggle quote (4 lines)> 1. ‘guix system reconfigure’ should probably register services one by> one so that if one of the service expressions is erroneous, we> don’t bork everything. See ‘upgrade-shepherd-services’.
Yes please.
Toggle quote (3 lines)> 2. IWBN to delay execution of this whole default-tty thing to the> #:start method. Ideas, Danny?
The idea was that if you specify a serial console at boot that you canactually log in at that console.
So it's trying to find out whether, at the time of service start,there is a serial console specified (in the Linux command line), and ifso, start an agetty. Otherwise do not start that agetty.
We could also do that without a guix service - but I thought it would benice to have a guix service for it as well.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 8 Mar 2018 10:08
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retitle 30706 'guix system reconfigure' can fail to load new system services
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 8 Mar 2018 10:09
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 10 Mar 2018 16:30
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Re: bug#30706: Nginx service fails
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Heya,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
Toggle quote (5 lines)>> If you run this on an “old” GuixSD, ‘find-long-options’ is undefined.>> How can it be that (gnu services base) with find-long-options call is present> but the (gnu build linux-boot)'s find-long options isn't present?
The service-upgrade code loads new service definitions in PID 1.However, it does not force a reload of already-loaded modules.
What happens here is that (gnu build linux-boot), the one without‘find-long-options’, is already available in PID 1. Thus, when end upusing that one, which lacks ‘find-long-options’.
We could call ‘reload-module’, but that’s probably not a great idea asit could cause breakage in previously-loaded code in PID 1. So I thinkthe current approach is the safest, and breakage of this sort should bequite rare; we should pay attention to such issues, though, and try hardto avoid them.
(Note that there’s no problem once you reboot, of course.)
Toggle quote (19 lines)>> 1. ‘guix system reconfigure’ should probably register services one by>> one so that if one of the service expressions is erroneous, we>> don’t bork everything. See ‘upgrade-shepherd-services’.>> Yes please.>>> 2. IWBN to delay execution of this whole default-tty thing to the>> #:start method. Ideas, Danny?>> The idea was that if you specify a serial console at boot that you can> actually log in at that console.>> So it's trying to find out whether, at the time of service start,> there is a serial console specified (in the Linux command line), and if> so, start an agetty. Otherwise do not start that agetty.>> We could also do that without a guix service - but I thought it would be> nice to have a guix service for it as well.
I agree. I think what you did inc32e3ddedd103318ca3f0a4bf0c91c91e2517806 is good. The effect here isjust that agetty would fail to start upon reconfigure, but that’s anacceptable limitation IMO.
Thanks,Ludo’.
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