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Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls

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Message #14 received at 62253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>
To: 62253 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62253: Fakechroot execution engine doesn’t outlive ‘exec’ calls
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:09:27 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> skribis:

> In this case, adding ‘coreutils’ to the profile (on the ‘guix pack’
> command line) would give us wrapped binaries, and the problem is solved.
> But in other cases, it’s not that simple.  For instance, libmpi.so from
> Open MPI tries to exec one its programs, using its absolute file name:
>
> $ unshare -m -U -r -f sh -c 'mount -t tmpfs none /gnu; GUIX_EXECUTION_ENGINE=fakechroot /tmp/fakechroot-test/bin/IMB-MPI1'
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The singleton application was not able to find the executable "orted" in
> your PATH or in the directory where Open MPI/OpenRTE was initially installed,
> and therefore cannot continue.
>
> For reference, we tried the following command:
>
>   /gnu/store/c7g9qalmbz4a94hwzk1v1cbq7n5m8plq-openmpi-4.1.4/bin/orted
>
> and got the error No such file or directory.

In the case of Open MPI as shown above, there’s actually an easy fix:
telling Open MPI where to look for ‘orted’.

Assuming you created a pack with:

  guix pack -RR openmpi intel-mpi-benchmarks bash-minimal -S /bin=bin

You can run code extracted from the tarball like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
export GUIX_EXECUTION_ENGINE=performance
salloc -N2 ./bin/mpirun -np 2 --launch-agent ./bin/orted \
  --map-by node -x GUIX_EXECUTION_ENGINE=performance -- \
  ./bin/IMB-MPI1 PingPong
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The ‘--launch-agent’ trick allows us to work around the fact that exec’d
code escapes the fakechroot environment.

I’m closing this bug as “wontfix”.

Ludo’.

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