Guix hangs near the end of ‘home’ operations

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Brian Cully wrote on 13 Apr 2022 21:43
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
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During ‘home reconfigure’ after it says ‘Finished updating symlinks.’,
guix hangs forever. Attempting to interrupt with ^C failed, and I had to
force-close my ssh session.

Logging back in, ‘home list-generations’ claims to have
installed a new generation and moved forward. I no longer knew the state
of this generation, since I had to forcefully quit the previous
operation, so I felt it safest to try to roll back my home.

Again, ‘home roll-back’ got to ‘Finished updating symlinks’ and
hard hung. I probably don’t need to tell anyone how this makes me feel
about the stability of this system or any guarantees of atomicity in
transactions.

-bjc
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2022 17:20
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2022 17:23
Re: bug#54919: Guix hangs near the end of ‘home ’ operations
(name . Brian Cully)(address . bjc@spork.org)(address . 54919@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi Brian,

Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org> skribis:

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> During ‘home reconfigure’ after it says ‘Finished updating symlinks.’,
> guix hangs forever. Attempting to interrupt with ^C failed, and I had to
> force-close my ssh session.

I’ve experienced this hang too: it occurs while ‘guix system
reconfigure’ is running ‘herd load root …’ to reload the shepherd
services (so the upgrade did take place, as can be seen in ‘guix home
describe’, but shepherd services may not have been upgraded).

I believe this has to do with commit
22ab90146665ad4e624421f297dd284f00ebe6ce.

We can probably fix it by avoiding the use of ‘start-in-the-background’.

Ludo’.
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2022 17:26
(name . Brian Cully)(address . bjc@spork.org)(address . 54919@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

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> We can probably fix it by avoiding the use of ‘start-in-the-background’.

Specifically, the proposed fix is attached below. I cannot test it
right now so I’m happy if somebody else can confirm the intuition in the
meantime :-) by applying the patch and running:

./pre-inst-env guix home reconfigure …

from there.

Ludo’.
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diff --git a/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm b/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm
index df6bbb30e6..3ac29cb005 100644
--- a/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm
+++ b/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm
@@ -82,9 +82,7 @@ (define config
'#$(append-map shepherd-service-provision
(filter shepherd-service-auto-start?
services))))
- (if (defined? 'start-in-the-background)
- (start-in-the-background services-to-start)
- (for-each start services-to-start)))))
+ (for-each start services-to-start))))
(scheme-file "shepherd.conf" config)))
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2022 23:52
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 20 Apr 2022 23:53
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merge 54779 54919
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 21 Apr 2022 00:11
Re: bug#54919: Guix hangs near the end of ‘home ’ operations
(name . Brian Cully)(address . bjc@spork.org)(address . 54919-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Turns out the issue was also being discussed at

Thanks,
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