Subject: Re: bug#52051: [core-updates-frozen] cannot login ('org.freedesktop.login1' service times out)

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:52:19 +0000

Timothy Sample schreef op di 21-12-2021 om 11:36 [-0500]:
> +            (limit (@ (name "auth_timeout")) "60000")

Are there any good reasons for having a timeout at all?
(Except for the local-user denial of service, but local users can do
"guix build -f something-that-allocates-almost-all-memory-and-melts-
the-cpu.scm" anyway ...)

If not, can the timeout be disabled/set to infinity?

A comment like 

> ;; Set timeout to a huge number (16.6 hours), because
> ;; upstream often sets timeouts low for spinning disks,
> ;; slow CPUs, etc.
> (limit [...] "60000")

could be useful (I'm assuming the timeout is in seconds here).

Greetings,
Maxime.