‘static-networking’ service can remain in ‘starting’ state forever

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 24 May 2024 16:42
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The ‘static-networking’ service can remain in ‘starting’ state forever
when it specifies a nonexistent NIC.

This can be reproduced by running a system such as hydra/bayfront.scm
(in maintenance.git) in ‘guix system vm’: shepherd will wait for
‘networking’ to start forever, preventing the machine from being cleanly
halted.

I believe this is due to indefinite blocking in ‘network-set-up/linux’:

;; Before going any further, wait for the
;; device to show up.
(wait-for-link
#$(network-address-device address)
#:blocking? #f)

It should instead wait for a limited amount of time (info "(shepherd)
Defining Services").

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 25 Dec 2024 22:38
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

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> The ‘static-networking’ service can remain in ‘starting’ state forever
> when it specifies a nonexistent NIC.
>
> This can be reproduced by running a system such as hydra/bayfront.scm
> (in maintenance.git) in ‘guix system vm’: shepherd will wait for
> ‘networking’ to start forever, preventing the machine from being cleanly
> halted.
>
> I believe this is due to indefinite blocking in ‘network-set-up/linux’:
>
> ;; Before going any further, wait for the
> ;; device to show up.
> (wait-for-link
> #$(network-address-device address)
> #:blocking? #f)
>
> It should instead wait for a limited amount of time (info "(shepherd)
> Defining Services").


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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 9 Jan 00:25 +0100
Re: [bug#75100] [PATCH 0/3] Shepherd service of 'static-networking' completes in timely fashion
87tta8sxb2.fsf@gnu.org
Pushed:

20a74ce28d tests: Run without the Linux kernel “quiet” argument.
431ab10344 services: static-networking: Fail when devices don’t show up.
8d649a8d17 services: static-networking: Run set-up/tear-down as a separate process.
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