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guix substitute: backtrace when the network is disabled during substitution

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: guix substitute: backtrace when the network is disabled during
 substitution
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 13:07:34 +0200

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X-Debbugs-CC: ludo <at> gnu.org 48903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com
tags: + substituter

Ludovic Courtès schreef op vr 11-06-2021 om 17:09 [+0200]:
> Hi Maxim{,e}!
> 
> Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:
> 
> > > 122.8 MB will be downloaded
> > >  libreoffice-6.4.7.2  117.1MiB                                  344KiB/s 03:04 [#########         ]  52.7%guix substitute: error: TLS error in procedure 'read_from_session_record_port': Error decoding the received TLS packet.
> > > substitution of /gnu/store/44h13hn5zssfppz67vydxcf95qsc8qfw-libreoffice-6.4.7.2 failed
> > > guix package: error: some substitutes for the outputs of derivation `/gnu/store/9f8sffldy39mprihx6xgrs7hys9j75jm-libreoffice-6.4.7.2.drv' failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build derivation from source
> > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > > 
> > 
> > I often have the same problem when I do "guix package -u".
> > (Same error message, same package libreoffice, same derivation)
> > (Usually libreoffice, sometimes with other packages as well.)
> 
> As a first step, can you reproduce the bug like this:
> 
>   while echo substitute /gnu/store/44h13hn5zssfppz67vydxcf95qsc8qfw-libreoffice-6.4.7.2 /tmp/t | guix substitute --substitute ; do chmod -R +w /tmp/t && rm -rf /tmp/t; done
> 
> ?

I cannot reproduce either, with

$ guix describe
Generatie 97	23:40:15 19 jun 2021	(huidig)
  guix 3aabe51
    bewaarplaats-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    tak: master
    commit: 3aabe51e8c09b9a2a87c03c40e3cc0f90d531bfd
  nonguix d81564f
    bewaarplaats-URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
    tak: master
    commit: d81564f21e7d8800e6f6187fe2e1f6476e06bc30

so I wondered whether it is a networking issue,
so I disabled & re-enabled wireless networking during the substitution
and encountered a (to my knowledge) previously-unknown backtrace:

$ while (echo substitute /gnu/store/44h13hn5zssfppz67vydxcf95qsc8qfw-libreoffice-6.4.7.2 /tmp/t && echo substitute /gnu/store/j0j7z6ckarjs9yi77sncszbmdgy38s70-guix-1.3.0-4.4985a42 /tmp/u) | guix
substitute --substitute ; do chmod -R +w /tmp/t && rm -rf /tmp/t && chmod -R +w /tmp/u && rm -rf /tmp/u ; done

http://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/44h13hn5zssfppz67vydxcf95qsc8qfw-libreoffice-6.4.7.2 aan het binnenhalen ...
 libreoffice-6.4.7.2  117.1MiB        1.7MiB/s 01:08 [##################] 100.0%

http://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/j0j7z6ckarjs9yi77sncszbmdgy38s70-guix-1.3.0-4.4985a42 aan het binnenhalen ...
guix-1.3.0-4.4985a42  36.1MiB        223KiB/s 01:53 [############      ]  67.9%Backtrace:
In guix/serialization.scm:
   468:33 19 (read "/tmp/u/share/guile/site/3.0" _)
   468:33 18 (read "/tmp/u/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu" _)
   468:33 17 (read "/tmp/u/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages" _)
   442:24 16 (read "/tmp/u/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/crates…" …)
   525:24 15 (_ "/tmp/u/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/crates-io…" …)
In ice-9/ports.scm:
   433:17 14 (call-with-output-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _)
In guix/serialization.scm:
   247:20 13 (dump #<input: string 7f0d0b7d3d90> #<output: /tmp/u/s…> …)
In unknown file:
          12 (get-bytevector-n! #<input: string 7f0d0b7d3d90> # 0 #)
In gcrypt/hash.scm:
   223:13 11 (read! #vu8(32 32 40 97 114 103 117 109 101 110 116 # …) …)
In unknown file:
          10 (get-bytevector-n! #<input: string 7f0d0b7d3e00> # 0 #)
In lzlib.scm:
    501:4  9 (lzread! #<lz-decoder 7f0d0b7d5ef0> #<input: string 7f…> …)
In unknown file:
           8 (get-bytevector-n #<input: string 7f0d0b7d3e70> 65537)
In guix/progress.scm:
   368:31  7 (read! _ _ _)
In unknown file:
           6 (get-bytevector-n! #<input: string 7f0d0a15e4d0> # 0 #)
In web/response.scm:
     95:2  5 (read! _ _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1685:16  4 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1685:16  3 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1780:13  2 (_ #<&compound-exception components: (#<&error> #<&irri…>)
  1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
Throw to key `bad-response' with args `("EOF while reading response body: ~a bytes of ~a" (26017808 37842870))'.

This seems like a separate issue from #48903 though,
so I opened a new bug report.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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Message #8 received at 49132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 49132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49132: guix substitute: backtrace when the network is
 disabled during substitution
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:06:02 +0200

Hi,

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> so I disabled & re-enabled wireless networking during the substitution
> and encountered a (to my knowledge) previously-unknown backtrace:
>
> $ while (echo substitute /gnu/store/44h13hn5zssfppz67vydxcf95qsc8qfw-libreoffice-6.4.7.2 /tmp/t && echo substitute /gnu/store/j0j7z6ckarjs9yi77sncszbmdgy38s70-guix-1.3.0-4.4985a42 /tmp/u) | guix
> substitute --substitute ; do chmod -R +w /tmp/t && rm -rf /tmp/t && chmod -R +w /tmp/u && rm -rf /tmp/u ; done

[...]

> In lzlib.scm:
>     501:4  9 (lzread! #<lz-decoder 7f0d0b7d5ef0> #<input: string 7f…> …)
> In unknown file:
>            8 (get-bytevector-n #<input: string 7f0d0b7d3e70> 65537)
> In guix/progress.scm:
>    368:31  7 (read! _ _ _)
> In unknown file:
>            6 (get-bytevector-n! #<input: string 7f0d0a15e4d0> # 0 #)
> In web/response.scm:
>      95:2  5 (read! _ _ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1685:16  4 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  3 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1780:13  2 (_ #<&compound-exception components: (#<&error> #<&irri…>)
>   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> Throw to key `bad-response' with args `("EOF while reading response body: ~a bytes of ~a" (26017808 37842870))'.

Ah indeed, this is poorly handled.

I’m not really sure how to address it.  I/O ports are a nice abstraction
as it allows you to transparently read “streams” from any medium, but as
always, that also comes with opacity where the call site is not supposed
to know what kind of exceptions might be thrown deep down.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

Message #13 received at 49132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: 49132 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix substitute: backtrace when the network is disabled during
 substitution
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 23:17:53 +0200

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> Ah indeed, this is poorly handled.
> 
> I’m not really sure how to address it.  I/O ports are a nice abstraction
> as it allows you to transparently read “streams” from any medium, but as
> always, that also comes with opacity where the call site is not supposed
> to know what kind of exceptions might be thrown deep down.
>
> Thoughts?

About 'as always, [...]’: [citation needed].  AFAICT, nowhere does Guile 
documentation state they they aren't supposed to know.

Also, that seems a bad supposition to me if it prevents fixing the bug. 
I would just ignore that 'not supposed to’.

I think this supposition needs some adjustment in order to be practical:
guix/scripts/substitute.scm has opened the network connection (via 
http-client), so guix/scripts/substitute.scm is responsible for the 
connection (unless it delegates of course), so 
guix/scripts/substitute.scm is supposed to know what to do about 
exceptions involving that connection (unless it delegates).

That there are some intermediate modules before things are actually read 
from the port is irrelevant -- substitute.scm opened the port, is 
responsible for the port and knows best how to handle exceptional 
situations involving that port.

Nothing lower-level has the right context/information to make a good 
decision on how to handle the exception, so no delegation possible. As 
such, guix/scripts/substitute.scm should do it.

It's not 100% clear from the backtrace, but it appears that the 
exception (from guix/scripts/substitute.scm perspective) happens at:

;; Procedure: process-substitution
      ;; Unpack the Nar at INPUT into DESTINATION.
      (define cpu-usage
        (with-cpu-usage-monitoring
         (restore-file hashed destination
                       #:dump-file (if (and destination-in-store?
                                            deduplicate?)
                                       dump-file/deduplicate*
                                       dump-file))))

This should then be wrapped in an error handler catching 'bad-response', 
maybe reporting it, and switching over the next URL.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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