GNU bug report logs - #71144
Interactive prompt opened upon shepherd config file error

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 71144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#71144: Interactive prompt opened upon shepherd config file
 error
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:02:05 +0100

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

> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr> skribis:
>
>> I think we should change the above to log and gracefully handle failure
>> to load an individual service file.
>
> With the change below, every service except the offending one is loaded
> and started as expected:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [   22.450515] shepherd[1]: Service root running with value #t.
> [   22.454624] shepherd[1]: Service root has been started.
> [   22.711738] shepherd[1]: Exception caught while loading '/gnu/store/fjis6iqpjfcnr90fy8rsg9v4j828jslv-shepherd-gwl-web.go': #<&compound-exception components: (#<&undefined-variable> #<&origin origin: #f> #<&message message: "Unbound variable: ~S"> #<&irritants irri
> [   22.711839] tants: (make-forkexec-constructor/container)> #<&exception-with-kind-and-args kind: unbound-variable args: (#f "Unbound variable: ~S" (make-forkexec-constructor/container) #f)>)>
> [   22.755146] shepherd[1]: starting services...
> [   22.756491] shepherd[1]: Configuration successfully loaded from '/gnu/store/mq7y31xnjcjwjkyf6w7qiaq61g6n9f5x-shepherd.conf'.
> Uncaught exception in task:
> In fibers.scm:
>     172:8  7 (_)
> In ice-9/exceptions.scm:
>    406:15  6 (_)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1752:10  5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> In shepherd/service.scm:
>    824:39  4 (_)
> In oop/goops.scm:
>   1567:11  3 (cache-miss #f)
>    1585:2  2 (_ _ _)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
>   1683:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1683:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> No applicable method for #<<generic> one-shot-service? (1)> in call (one-shot-service? #f)
> [   22.798737] shepherd[1]: Starting service user-file-systems...
> [   22.800361] shepherd[1]: Starting service root-file-system...
> [   22.802015] shepherd[1]: Starting service host-name...
> [   22.803688] shepherd[1]: Starting service pam...
> [   22.805372] shepherd[1]: Starting service sysctl...
> [   22.806926] shepherd[1]: Starting service loopback...
> [   22.808225] shepherd[1]: Starting service firewall...
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> (There’s still this scary-looking but harmless backtrace in the middle:
> that’s because (start-in-the-background '(something-that-does-not-exist))
> throws like that as of 0.10.4.)
>
> Once booted, shepherd is fine and you can interact normally with it; the
> only thing missing is, in this case, the ‘gwl-web’ service, which we
> failed to load.
>
> I think that’s a significant improvement.
>
> Thoughts?

That looks good to me, the "Arrange to spawn a REPL if something goes
wrong" comment needs removing/updating, but that's the only thing I
spotted.

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