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ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system

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From: raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework <at> protonmail.com>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: "pengmeiyu <at> riseup.net" <pengmeiyu <at> riseup.net>,
 "46942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <46942 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
 zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#46942: ci.guix.gnu.org is slow from my system
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:01:39 +0000

Hi Maxime,

> On Mon, 2021-03-15 at 00:13 +0000, raid5atemyhomework via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > [...]
> > I recently had to rebuild an OS (because I was dumb; the Guix language
> > for shepherd services can easily lead you deadlocking shepherd itself)
> > and had supreme difficulty reinstalling, [...]
>
> Reinstalling after a messed up configuration file shouldn't be necessary.
> At least when using GRUB as bootloader, guix keeps some old (& presumably
> not broken) system generations around, that can be selected when booting
> from the bootloader. (I don't recall exactly how the menu is named,
> maybe ‘Old system generations of $HOSTNAMES?)

Unfortunately I had a long-standing latent bug in my configuration file that triggered on a (persistent on-disk) edge case which would cause the shepherd process to enter an infinite loop (because the shepherd configuration language is Turing-complete enough to allow infinite loops in the first place).  All the remaining generations (since I didn't like keeping more than a dozen, and had recently been excessively tweaking the configuration file) had this bug, so I had no way of reverting to an even older generation that predated the bug.

Thanks
raid5atemyhomework

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