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marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30581: closed (“sudo herd restart
 nscd” fails)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:42:02 +0000

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: “sudo herd restart nscd” fails
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:12:26 +0100

Hi Guix,

the shepherd behaves funny:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
rekado ~ : sudo herd restart nscd
Backtrace:
           3 (primitive-load "/run/current-system/profile/bin/herd")
In shepherd/scripts/herd.scm:
    199:9  2 (main . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
    829:9  1 (catch system-error #<procedure dff3f0 at shepherd/scr…> …)
In shepherd/scripts/herd.scm:
    119:5  0 (_)

shepherd/scripts/herd.scm:119:5: Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern" #{\x1b;%G}#)'.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The version is 0.3.2.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30505-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30505: Starting console/terminal Unicode support
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:41:05 +0100

Hello!

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

[...]

>> default_utf8 is a default, and it will be read only when defaulting, so
>> in this case it will be read when Linux is constructing a tty.
>>
>> %base-services contain both console-font-service and mingetty-service which
>> both access the ttys.  Linux VTs are created on demand.
>>
>> Once the VTs are created, us setting default_utf8 is too late.
>>
>> We should set default_utf8 before anyone touches tty[123456].
>>
>> Where will that be?
>>
>> Should we just set it in boot-system ? That's probably a nice way -
>> also since I think this setting is quite Linux-specific.
>
> Alternately we could introduce a ‘virtual-terminal’ service that every
> ‘term-*’ service would depend on.  That ‘virtual-terminal’ service would
> simply write “1” to /sys/…/default_utf8.

Done in bb3062ad6290223ea24144ca8aa1f4cddac8f9be.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

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