Starting the hurd-vm service doesn't always succeed

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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 27 Apr 2021 06:40
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Hello!

I'm not sure if that's only on my setup, but starting or restart the
hurd-vm service seems a bit dodgy here:

$ sudo herd restart hurd-vm
Service hurd-vm is not running.
secret service: sending secrets to 11004
secret service: retrying connection [59 attempts left]
secret service: connected; waiting for handshake...
secret service: invalid handshake #<eof>
Service hurd-vm could not be started.

[...] many tries fail as above

Finally, it worked:

$ sudo herd start hurd-vm
secret service: sending secrets to 11004
secret service: retrying connection [59 attempts left]
secret service: connected; waiting for handshake...
secret service: sending files from "/etc/childhurd"...
secret service: done sending files to port 11004
Service hurd-vm has been started.

Have others experience this?

Maxim
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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 27 Apr 2021 07:27
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello!
>
> I'm not sure if that's only on my setup, but starting or restart the
> hurd-vm service seems a bit dodgy here:
>
> $ sudo herd restart hurd-vm
> Service hurd-vm is not running.
> secret service: sending secrets to 11004
> secret service: retrying connection [59 attempts left]
> secret service: connected; waiting for handshake...
> secret service: invalid handshake #<eof>
> Service hurd-vm could not be started.
>
> [...] many tries fail as above
>
> Finally, it worked:
>
> $ sudo herd start hurd-vm
> secret service: sending secrets to 11004
> secret service: retrying connection [59 attempts left]
> secret service: connected; waiting for handshake...
> secret service: sending files from "/etc/childhurd"...
> secret service: done sending files to port 11004
> Service hurd-vm has been started.
>
> Have others experience this?
>
> Maxim

Here's the relevant config in case it matters:

(service hurd-vm-service-type
(hurd-vm-configuration
(os (operating-system
(inherit %hurd-vm-operating-system)
(services
(modify-services (operating-system-user-services
%hurd-vm-operating-system)
(openssh-service-type
config => (openssh-configuration
(inherit config)
(authorized-keys
`(("root" ,(local-file "maxim_nopwd.pub"))))))))))
(memory-size (* 4 1024)) ;4GiB
(disk-size (* 20000 (expt 2 20))) ;20GiB
;; Extend the default net-options with a port forward
;; for the incoming 10.0.1.1 Wireguard IP as well.
(net-options '("--device" "rtl8139,netdev=net0"
"--netdev"
(string-append
"user,id=net0,"
"hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:11004-:1004,"
"hostfwd=tcp::10022-:2222,"
"hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:15900-:5900")))))

The net-options override is to make QEMU listen for 10022 on all
interfaces, not just the loopback one. Otherwise I've added my ssh key
and set the memory and disk-size.
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