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[PATCH] substitute: Reopen connection upon “Error in the push function” from GnuTLS.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [PATCH] substitute: Reopen connection upon “Error in the push function” from GnuTLS.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:18:19 +0200

This works around an occasional issue where substitution stops abruptly
due to “Error in the push function” from GnuTLS, as reported at
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71238> by Richard Sent.

* guix/scripts/substitute.scm (call-with-cached-connection): Add
‘error/push-error’ and ‘error/pull-error’ to the list of gnutls-error
values for which the connection is reopened.

Change-Id: Icf079dd10b16739f62fee15bc3d90bab77110576
---
 guix/scripts/substitute.scm | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi!

This is an attempt to work around the dreaded “Error in the push function”
coming from GnuTLS and that would cause substitution to fail (“‘guix
substitute’ died unexpectedly”).  With this patch, a new connection attempt
is made.

This is not fully satisfactory since we don’t understand yet what causes
that error, which is not supposed to happen AIUI.  But at least, it should
provide more graceful handling.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

diff --git a/guix/scripts/substitute.scm b/guix/scripts/substitute.scm
index 8bcbca5e7a..8db730a9c0 100755
--- a/guix/scripts/substitute.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/substitute.scm
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ (define-module (guix scripts substitute)
                 #:select (uri-abbreviation nar-uri-abbreviation
                           (open-connection-for-uri
                            . guix:open-connection-for-uri)))
-  #:autoload   (gnutls) (error/invalid-session error/again error/interrupted)
+  #:autoload   (gnutls) (error/invalid-session
+                         error/again
+                         error/interrupted
+                         error/push-error
+                         error/pull-error)
   #:use-module (guix progress)
   #:use-module ((guix build syscalls)
                 #:select (set-thread-name))
@@ -426,6 +430,11 @@ (define (call-with-cached-connection uri proc)
                               (memq (first args)
                                     (list error/invalid-session
 
+                                          ;; "Error in the push function" is
+                                          ;; usually a transient error.
+                                          error/push-error
+                                          error/pull-error
+
                                           ;; XXX: These two are not properly handled in
                                           ;; GnuTLS < 3.7.3, in
                                           ;; 'write_to_session_record_port'; see

base-commit: 72e586fcae78e467d01e2add09c1db26be6bfa93
-- 
2.45.2

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