GNU bug report logs - #67538
Shepherd stops responding during "guix system reconfigure"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Timo Wilken" <guix <at> twilken.net>

Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:38:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 67538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
To: "67538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <67538 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Shepherd stops responding during "guix system reconfigure"
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:23:56 +0000

> > my suspicion is that it's due to some error coming from a start
> > GEXP that somehow derails shepherd's event loop.


[...]


> iirc I once managed to get a debugger out when it happened and it's
> stuck waiting in one of the epoll/select/alike calls,


...or one of the start/stop GEXP's calls something that (sometimes?) blocks indefinitely (which violates the API of shepherd).

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