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Guix assumes ideal network exists, does not

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 16:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: 46877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46877: Guix assumes ideal network exists, does not
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:32:50 +0100
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Guixfriends,

Errors like the one below are omnipresent.  It's a problem.

Expecting an ever-increasing (16k+?) number of requests to finish 
flawlessly or aborting a very long (20+ minutes here) process is 
doomed.

We don't seem to have a plan forward (I include myself!).  Looking 
at other package managers, a blunt ‘retry a finite number of 
times’ seems common.  Guix's ‘pretend that "transient" is a magic 
powerword’ approach less so.

What do people think?  Does the heavy pipelining complicate 
matters?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
~ $ guix weather --substitute-urls=https://guix.tobias.gr
computing 16,745 package derivations for x86_64-linux...
looking for 18,127 store items on https://guix.tobias.gr...
updating substitutes from 'https://guix.tobias.gr'... 
41.6%Backtrace:
         11 (primitive-load 
         "/home/nckx/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
In guix/ui.scm:
 2164:12 10 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 1736:10  9 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ 
 #:unwind-for-type _)
 1731:15  8 (with-exception-handler #<procedure 7fe8a173d7e0 at 
 ice-9/boot-9.scm:1815:7 (exn)> _ #:unwind? _ …)
In guix/scripts/weather.scm:
   546:9  7 (_)
In guix/build/utils.scm:
  569:23  6 (every* #<procedure 7fe875fdd4e0 at 
  guix/scripts/weather.scm:546:17 (server)> _)
In guix/scripts/weather.scm:
  547:19  5 (_ "https://guix.tobias.gr")
  116:17  4 (report-server-coverage _ _ #:display-missing? _)
In unknown file:
          3 (_ #<procedure 7fe86e3cbbe0 at 
          guix/scripts/weather.scm:184:2 ()> #<procedure list _> 
          . #w())
In guix/scripts/substitute.scm:
  411:23  2 (lookup-narinfos _ _ #:open-connection _)
  371:26  1 (fetch-narinfos _ _ #:open-connection _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
 1669:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
Throw to key `gnutls-error' with args `(#<gnutls-error-enum Error 
in the pull function.> read_from_session_record_port)'.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Kind regards,

T G-R
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