* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
@ 2020-05-21 2:59 Katherine Cox-Buday
2020-05-21 12:14 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-22 17:39 ` Mathieu Othacehe
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From: Katherine Cox-Buday @ 2020-05-21 2:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 41429
I am running shepherd as a userspace service manager on an alien distro.
Occassionally (often enough as to cause concern), Shepherd is crashing.
I am unable to narrow down a cause, but anecdotally, it seems to happen
more often when a service it's managing fails repeatedly and is
disabled.
I'm running `strace` against the Shepherd process in an attempt to
submit a better bug report, but this is all I have for now. Maybe others
have also seen this behavior.
--
Katherine
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* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
2020-05-21 2:59 bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes Katherine Cox-Buday
@ 2020-05-21 12:14 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-21 12:51 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2020-05-22 17:39 ` Mathieu Othacehe
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Efraim Flashner @ 2020-05-21 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Katherine Cox-Buday; +Cc: 41429
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:59:03PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
> I am running shepherd as a userspace service manager on an alien distro.
> Occassionally (often enough as to cause concern), Shepherd is crashing.
> I am unable to narrow down a cause, but anecdotally, it seems to happen
> more often when a service it's managing fails repeatedly and is
> disabled.
>
> I'm running `strace` against the Shepherd process in an attempt to
> submit a better bug report, but this is all I have for now. Maybe others
> have also seen this behavior.
I found it happens less often with shepherd-0.8. What version are you
running? Also possibly related, do you have mismatched versions of guile
between guix packages and your distro's native packages?
I've also sometimes found shepherd to crash when I add a service where
the start command is "wrong", as though the error were so bad that
shepherd says "Nope! That's it! I quit!"
I'd suggest looking at .config/shepherd/shepherd.log but it's rather
sparse. Still, it might have something useful.
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* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
2020-05-21 12:14 ` Efraim Flashner
@ 2020-05-21 12:51 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2020-05-21 14:04 ` Efraim Flashner
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From: Katherine Cox-Buday @ 2020-05-21 12:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Efraim Flashner; +Cc: 41429
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:59:03PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
>> I am running shepherd as a userspace service manager on an alien distro.
>> Occassionally (often enough as to cause concern), Shepherd is crashing.
>> I am unable to narrow down a cause, but anecdotally, it seems to happen
>> more often when a service it's managing fails repeatedly and is
>> disabled.
>>
>> I'm running `strace` against the Shepherd process in an attempt to
>> submit a better bug report, but this is all I have for now. Maybe others
>> have also seen this behavior.
>
> I found it happens less often with shepherd-0.8. What version are you
> running? Also possibly related, do you have mismatched versions of guile
> between guix packages and your distro's native packages?
Sorry, I forgot to include the version! I am running 0.8 from a store
which I update ~1 week.
> I've also sometimes found shepherd to crash when I add a service where
> the start command is "wrong", as though the error were so bad that
> shepherd says "Nope! That's it! I quit!"
I'm doing very standard things with `make-forkexec-constructor`, so I
wouldn't expect any problems there.
Your comment is kind of scary though! Shepherd is the thing I want to
stay up no matter what since it's responsible for monitoring and
restarting things. The idea that a misbehaving or poorly written service
could bring down the entire Shepherd process is a problem! Is there no
isolation?
> I'd suggest looking at .config/shepherd/shepherd.log but it's rather
> sparse. Still, it might have something useful.
Yes, this is the first place I looked, but unfortunately there wasn't
much usable informatino.
--
Katherine
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* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
2020-05-21 12:51 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
@ 2020-05-21 14:04 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-05-21 15:59 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Efraim Flashner @ 2020-05-21 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Katherine Cox-Buday; +Cc: 41429
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On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 07:51:54AM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
> > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 09:59:03PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
> >> I am running shepherd as a userspace service manager on an alien distro.
> >> Occassionally (often enough as to cause concern), Shepherd is crashing.
> >> I am unable to narrow down a cause, but anecdotally, it seems to happen
> >> more often when a service it's managing fails repeatedly and is
> >> disabled.
> >>
> >> I'm running `strace` against the Shepherd process in an attempt to
> >> submit a better bug report, but this is all I have for now. Maybe others
> >> have also seen this behavior.
> >
> > I found it happens less often with shepherd-0.8. What version are you
> > running? Also possibly related, do you have mismatched versions of guile
> > between guix packages and your distro's native packages?
>
> Sorry, I forgot to include the version! I am running 0.8 from a store
> which I update ~1 week.
>
> > I've also sometimes found shepherd to crash when I add a service where
> > the start command is "wrong", as though the error were so bad that
> > shepherd says "Nope! That's it! I quit!"
>
> I'm doing very standard things with `make-forkexec-constructor`, so I
> wouldn't expect any problems there.
>
> Your comment is kind of scary though! Shepherd is the thing I want to
> stay up no matter what since it's responsible for monitoring and
> restarting things. The idea that a misbehaving or poorly written service
> could bring down the entire Shepherd process is a problem! Is there no
> isolation?
I have a whole collection of attempts to integrate mcron with shepherd,
to create loops and add jobs only when the service is active. Attempting
to fork off and then collect the child process and then fail just enough
to make the service restart. Lots of cringe-worthy code. The more common
fail scenarios I see are shepherd fails to start because it doesn't like
my start code of one of the services or actually starting the service
somehow kills it. All of those were with straight lambdas to the start
command though.
Do you have your services writing out any logs? Maybe there's a clue
there.
> > I'd suggest looking at .config/shepherd/shepherd.log but it's rather
> > sparse. Still, it might have something useful.
>
> Yes, this is the first place I looked, but unfortunately there wasn't
> much usable informatino.
>
> --
> Katherine
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* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
2020-05-21 14:04 ` Efraim Flashner
@ 2020-05-21 15:59 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
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From: Katherine Cox-Buday @ 2020-05-21 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Efraim Flashner; +Cc: 41429
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>> Your comment is kind of scary though! Shepherd is the thing I want to
>> stay up no matter what since it's responsible for monitoring and
>> restarting things. The idea that a misbehaving or poorly written service
>> could bring down the entire Shepherd process is a problem! Is there no
>> isolation?
>
> I have a whole collection of attempts to integrate mcron with shepherd,
> to create loops and add jobs only when the service is active. Attempting
> to fork off and then collect the child process and then fail just enough
> to make the service restart. Lots of cringe-worthy code. The more common
> fail scenarios I see are shepherd fails to start because it doesn't like
> my start code of one of the services or actually starting the service
> somehow kills it. All of those were with straight lambdas to the start
> command though.
I'm not familiar with Shepherd's internals, so I don't know why
interacting with a cron is relevant.
> Do you have your services writing out any logs? Maybe there's a clue
> there.
Not yet, but I should be enabling this soon, and if they display
anything I'll report back.
Still, this seems beside the point: the bug is that Shepherd needs to
stay up regardless of what the services it's monitoring do.
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Katherine
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* bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes
2020-05-21 2:59 bug#41429: Shepherd Sometimes Crashes Katherine Cox-Buday
2020-05-21 12:14 ` Efraim Flashner
@ 2020-05-22 17:39 ` Mathieu Othacehe
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mathieu Othacehe @ 2020-05-22 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Katherine Cox-Buday; +Cc: 41429
Hello Katherine,
> I'm running `strace` against the Shepherd process in an attempt to
> submit a better bug report, but this is all I have for now. Maybe others
> have also seen this behavior.
Yes, I have observed this behavior. This should be fixed with the
upcoming 0.8.1 release of Shepherd (hopefully !).
See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-05/msg00241.html.
Thanks for reporting,
Mathieu
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