CP437: Invalid Argument on init

Hello,

I've installed guix to my desktop. `guix system install` ran successfully

and the system is able to boot. However, a large number of services fail to

start with the error "CP437: Invalid argument". There are 3 groups of

information listed below: a partial list of services which fail (partial

because I can only see the final screen of output; I'm not sure how to see

the beginning of the log when I have no tty's and the startup log doesn't

support scrolling as far as I can tell), a partial list of services that

succeeded in starting, and my operating-system declaration used to create

it.

I verified that the inputs (mount points, fs types, etc) to the

operating-system is accurate. I don't think it's doing anything

particularly interesting. The only abnormal thing is that my root partition

is btrfs, but I get the same behavior on ext.

Broken Services:

avahi-daemon

console-font-tty{1-6}

dbus-system

elogind

guix-daemon

networking

nscd

ntpd

syslogd

term-tty{1-6,auto}

user-homes

upower-daemon

urandom-seed

user-processes

wpa-supplicant

xorg-server

Working Services:

console-keymap

file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/{blkio,devices,freezer,memory,perf_event}

host-name

virtual-terminal

OS Declaration:

(use-modules (gnu))

(use-service-modules desktop ssh)

(use-package-modules shells vim wm)

(operating-system

(packages (cons* fish neovim xmonad %base-packages))

(services (cons*

(console-keymap-service "dvorak-programmer")

(service openssh-service-type

(openssh-configuration

(port-number 8778)

)

)

%desktop-services

)

)

(users (let ((default-groups '("wheel" "audio" "video" "netdev"))

;(default-shell #$fish) not sure if this is the right

syntax... fix once system boots

)

(cons* (user-account

(name "primary")

(group "users")

(supplementary-groups default-groups)

(home-directory "/home/primary")

)

(user-account

(name "configuration")

(group "users")

(supplementary-groups default-groups)

(home-directory "/home/configuration")

)

(user-account

(name "packaging")

(group "users")

(supplementary-groups default-groups)

(home-directory "/home/packaging")

)

%base-user-accounts

)

)

)

(host-name "cp")

(timezone "America/Los_Angeles")

(locale "en_US.utf8")

(file-systems (cons*

(file-system

(device (file-system-label "ESP"))

(mount-point "/boot/efi")

(type "fat")

)

(file-system

(device (file-system-label "guix"))

(mount-point "/")

(type "btrfs")

)

%base-file-systems

)

)

(bootloader (bootloader-configuration

(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)

(target "/boot/efi")

(timeout 15)

)

)

)

Thanks,

Bryan

Hi,

apparently the message is printed by fsck.fat and is harmless (although we should

still fix it). Are you sure that the services fail because of it?

Try adding (check? #f) here for testing purposes.

I assume that it is related because the error is printed once for each

failed service but I have no better reason than that. I can send a video of

my boot tonight... It might be a little blurry though, all I have is my

phone camera. If there's a way for me to start a screen recorder during

init or capture the logs that it prints as a text file I'd be happy to do

that, I just don't know of a way to.

On Jan 9, 2019 11:08, "Danny Milosavljevic" <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

Hi,

apparently the message is printed by fsck.fat and is harmless (although we

should

still fix it). Are you sure that the services fail because of it?

Try adding (check? #f) here for testing purposes.

I've linked to two videos here, one of the boot (the screen with the GNU

logo and "100% freedom" on it) and one of the init (where Shepherd reports

errors, I think it's dmesg?).

Boot:

Init:

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:31 AM Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:15:10 -0800

Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks! I've viewed those.

It depends. On early boot it's dmesg and once syslog is up it's syslog.

Maybe the CP437 is not harmless after all.

Please try adding the unquoted part below at the indicated place:

(check? #f)

Then invoke

guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

as root in order for it to be applied and reboot.

This prevents fsck.fat from being invoked - so we hopefully also doesn't

need CP437 any more.

If that doesn't help, try this (it's kinda dangerous :( ):

(check? #f)

(needed-for-boot? #f)

Then invoke

guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

as root in order for it to be applied and reboot.

This prevents fsck.fat from being invoked and it also prevents the

initial ram disk (a very early tiny GNU system which runs right after the kernel

starts up and before init) from trying to mount /boot/efi . The real system

will still mount /boot/efi later.

It would be interesting if

(1) This fixes the problem (I don't think so), or

(2) It reduces the number of error messages and makes it less bad.

After all this, if it still doesn't work:

Try adding the unquoted part:

(check? #f)

(needed-for-boot? #f)

(mount? #f)

Then invoke

guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

as root in order for it to be applied and reboot.

This prevents mounting of /boot/efi entirely (it's pretty dangerous).

Should your system not boot any more you can select the older generation

in the grub boot menu. It's also possible that you can't run

guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

anymore after this. If so, please invoke

mount /boot/efi

as root. Then you can invoke

guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

once.

It's likely that the latter will be a successful workaround to

the original problem.

It would still be good if we got to the root cause later.

Also, if you want, please try the following program on the booted guix system:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <locale.h>

#include <iconv.h>

#include <langinfo.h>

static iconv_t iconv_init_codepage(int codepage)

{

iconv_t result;

char codepage_name[16];

snprintf(codepage_name, sizeof(codepage_name), "CP%d", codepage);

result = iconv_open(nl_langinfo(CODESET), codepage_name);

if (result == (iconv_t) - 1) {

printf("FOO\n");

perror(codepage_name);

printf("BAR\n");

}

return result;

}

int main() {

setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

iconv_init_codepage(437);

return 0;

}

You'd have to put the above text into a file called "a.c", then invoke

guix package -i gcc-toolchain

Then invoke

gcc -o a a.c

Then invoke

./a

I suspect it will also fail with the same error message.

After that, please invoke

iconv -l |grep -i cp437

It will probably either return nothing or even fail with an error message.

Oh right, forgot about the check line. I'll try that tonight. However, I

don't think I can run your test program unless that fixes the issue as I

never get a shell.

Also, I don't think this matters, but I'll be running `guix system init`

from the installer rather than reconfigure due to the lack of shell and the

fact that guix itself is one of the services that fails to start.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 09:59 Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org

wrote:

Hi Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

The statically-linked ‘fsck.fat’ doesn’t have access to gconv module,

which is why ‘iconv_open’ would fail.

Glibc has the ability to bring in statically-linked gconv modules, so we

could in theory build a custom glibc for the statically-linked

‘fsck.fat’, but that doesn’t sound great.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Hey Danny,

Sorry for the delay in response. I saw no behavior change until I added the

(mount? #f) line. This fixed a number of services, but d-bus fails to

start. I encounter further issues including X Server failing to start and

the inability to log in (when I type in a valid username it immediately

fails 3 times and prints the standard message... I don't have password

hashes in my config, but IIRC last time I installed guix I was able to log

in without setting a password either imperatively or declaratively). Due to

the latter issue I was unable to test the program you posted, but it sounds

like Ludovic was able to describe what would happen if I had been able to?

I assume the non-d-bus errors are related to the lack of d-bus.

I uploaded a new video of my startup at

It's ~50s long, but seconds 20-45 are the system retrying d-bus a number of

times.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:21 AM Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>

wrote:

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:21 AM Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>

wrote:

I think I know why d-bus is failing to start. The error when it tries to is

as follows:

"Failed to start message bus: Error in file /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf,

line 1, column 0: no element found"

The first possibility came up when I searched /gnu/store for

system-local.conf. There is only one instance of such a file, and it is

empty. According to https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html,

the (xml) file *must* contain the following line at a minimum:

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-Bus Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"

"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd"

The error message makes a lot of sense with this in mind. Since I can't

just edit the file to add the line, can you recommend a way to fix this?

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 7:43 AM Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Bryan,

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:00:14 -0800

Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote:

system-local.conf is generated by the guix service for d-bus, see

I'm not sure how it could ever happen that that is empty (no root element either).

Could you image the broken partition and give it to us? It needs some serious

debugging.

Alternatively, you can specify "--repl" without the quotes at the end of the

"append" line in grub in the menu in order to get it to stop booting and provide

a Guile prompt.

You then can write things like

,use (ice-9 ftw)

(scandir "/etc")

and so on.

But I think it would be easier to chroot into the half-finished installation and

try to reconfigure again - if necessary from a guix checkout with debugging

messages added.

Hi Ludo,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:00:15 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

Reading the dosfstools source, I found that there is already a fallback

if the codepage conversion does not work, so I don't think we have to

change anything there (see dosfstools-4.1/src/file.c in function

"put_char").

But according to Bryan, even mounting *without* checking the UEFI partition

doesn't work.

There's something else up (I very much doubt that mounting requires iconv--

since the mounting happens in the Linux kernel and not in the GNU userland

at runtime).

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

Ah so it must be the charset conversion kernel module that’s missing?

How can we reproduce the issue? Is there a way to mark the VFAT file

system as requiring a specific file name encoding? (I’ve never had

troubles mounting my UEFI partition.)

Ludo’.

Root files:

ESP: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o7sQD9rhzRwTKsyvqrZpScMQrgi5XCDT

I tried reconfiguring from chroot but ran into some issues. I bind-mounted

/dev, /sys, /proc, and /var from the installer to the target, which got

past some errors. The one I couldn't get past was being unable to find the

glibc derivation in the store, though the file was present. Not sure what

went wrong there.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 6:19 PM Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>

wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 06:34:46 -0800

Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote:

Why /var ?

Is it because of the guix socket? I'd try mounting just the socket directory,

otherwise it may also shadow the state of your installation and you won't

be able to reconfigure.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 23:48:40 +0100

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

i.e. /var/guix/daemon-socket/

I've chrooted into the filesystem Bryan provided.

(1) The ESP filesystem is dirty, i.e. it was not cleanly unmounted. That means

fsck.vfat would have to actually check it. I tried checking it and fixing it

with the same arguments that guix uses, and it worked (didn't have to modify

anything)

(2) In the root filesystem,

scheme@(guile-user)> ((@@ (gnu build file-systems) read-partition-label) "/esp.img")

$4 = "ESP"

So not sure what's up with not being able to mount ESP. But read on:

However, I can reproduce the problem with not being able to log in.

Reason:

/etc/pam.d/login is a symlink to /gnu/store/7pbmghp19xml75pv9ss5dik6mcc8n5xy-login,

which has 0 Byte.

There are lots and lots of files with 0 Byte--these:

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I've created a qemu disk image with Bryan's original files:

To use it invoke:

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda a.img -kernel mnt/gnu/store/b27wjlld5105cq56vvxfywk88x5hxsba-system/kernel/bzImage -initrd ../initrd -serial stdio -m 900 -append "console=ttyS0 --load=/gnu/store/pyd52vfzxhmcdmx77mb4a5lwvl2xa6s5-boot --root=/dev/sda2 --system=/gnu/store/b27wjlld5105cq56vvxfywk88x5hxsba-system"

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

It’s not surprising to .lock files to be empty. But where are those

files you’re talking about? Surely there’s no /gnu/store on the VFAT

EFI partition, right?

Thanks,

Ludo’.

Hi Ludo,

Hi Bryan,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:50:41 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

I agree. But I didn't filter them out because it would be confusing.

Oh, these empty files are on the root partition Bryan provided - there

are lots and lots of empty files, including very important ones like the

pam configuration files and the elogind configuration files (which is why

the login didn't work).

It looks like something crashed or sync(2) wasn't called before reboot or

something.

Some flash storage devices like to lie about whether they synced something

(they'll say they did sync but they really didn't yet). If one then cuts

the power it leads to data loss. But that's all speculation.

@Bryan: Would you be up to doing the installation again but then before the

reboot do a manual invocation of "sync" and then wait 5 min before rebooting?

Is it flash storage?

I didn't check the contents of the ESP partition because they don't matter.

What matters is whether the ESP partition is dirty (it was) and whether a

manual invocation of "fsck.vfat" succeeds on it (it does).

Out of curiousity I checked ESP anyway now. It has:

EFI

EFI/GuixSD

EFI/GuixSD/grubx64.efi

$ ls -l EFI/GuixSD/grubx64.efi

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 155136 11. Jan 16:52 /mnt/tmp/EFI/GuixSD/grubx64.efi

That's all there is in the ESP partition.

Hello,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

[...]

OK but how does that relate to the CP437 encoding issue of the ESP?

We’ve moved on to a separate topic, right? :-)

So IIUC, the problem is more of a file system corruption of the storage

device Bryan is using, right?

Thanks for the investigation!

Ludo’.

I am indeed using flash storage, specifically a Samsung Evo 850 (it's a few

years old and has had many distress installed and reinstalled on it; now

that I'm thinking about it, it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was the

underlying issue). I'm trying your recommendation of reinstalling and

waiting now. I doubt the installation will finish before I leave for work,

so it will certainly sit for at least 5min.

Is there any way that we can verify that the files have finished writing?

It seems difficult if the hardware is willing to straight-up lie to us...

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 02:16 Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org

wrote:

My guix installation appears to be working now. Thanks for all your help!

I'm not sure if the underlying issue causing the encoding error has been

identified; if there's anything else you need from me let me know. It

appears that this error is not causing any bad behavior, however.

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:42 AM Bryan Ferris <saffsnail@gmail.com> wrote: