Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > Maxim Cournoyer skriver: > >>> Is running ‘guix offload test /etc/guix/machines.scm overdrive1’ on >>> berlin enough to reproduce the issue? If so, we could monitor/strace >>> sshd on overdrive1 to get a better understanding of what’s going on. >> >> It's actually difficult to trigger it; it seems to happen mostly on the >> first try after a long time without connecting to the machine; on the >> 2nd and later tries, everything is smooth. Waiting a few minutes is not >> enough to re-trigger the problem. >> >> I've managed to see the problem a few lucky times with: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> while true; do guix offload test /etc/guix/machines.scm overdrive1; done >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I used to be able to reproduce it by inducing a high load on the target > machine and just let Guix keep trying to connect. But now I did that, > and set overload threshold to 0.0 for good measure, and Guix has been > waiting patiently for two hours without failure. > > So AFAICT this bug has been fixed. Perhaps Berlin or the Overdrive > simply needs to be updated? Ah! Do you have root access to overdrive1? It'd be interesting to reconfigure it to update the guix-daemon and see if the problem vanishes. Thanks for the information! Maxim