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* bug#28211: Grafting fails for latest Go release candidate
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@ 2017-08-23 22:53             ` Ludovic Courtès
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From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-08-23 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marius Bakke; +Cc: Andy Wingo, guix-devel, 28211

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> Most likely just lucky, new grafting failure today.
>
> I've noticed they are more likely to occur when the host system is busy.
> Grafting a large package such as 'texlive' is almost guaranteed to fail
> on a fully-utilized machine.
>
> Maybe we should switch back to 2.0 for the time being?

Yes, done: <https://bugs.gnu.org/28211>.

I took a look: the code in (guix build graft) is multi-threaded but
there’s no shared state among threads (except for the current
output/error ports, which may partly explain the error messages that
suggest memory corruption.)  So it may be that the problem is in
libguile.

Ludo’.

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* bug#28211: Grafting fails for latest Go release candidate
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@ 2017-08-24  4:56               ` Mark H Weaver
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mark H Weaver @ 2017-08-24  4:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ludovic Courtès; +Cc: Andy Wingo, guix-devel, 28211

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Most likely just lucky, new grafting failure today.
>>
>> I've noticed they are more likely to occur when the host system is busy.
>> Grafting a large package such as 'texlive' is almost guaranteed to fail
>> on a fully-utilized machine.
>>
>> Maybe we should switch back to 2.0 for the time being?
>
> Yes, done: <https://bugs.gnu.org/28211>.
>
> I took a look: the code in (guix build graft) is multi-threaded but
> there’s no shared state among threads (except for the current
> output/error ports,

In Guile, port operations do not include built-in thread
synchronization, so it's not safe for multiple threads to write to the
current output/error ports concurrently.  Those writes should be
protected by a mutex.

However, we had agreed that in 2.2, the port operations should be
implemented in such a way that the worst that could happen on typical
hardware in practice was for the output to be garbled.  I didn't review
the new 2.2 ports code, so I'm not sure whether this was accomplished.

      Mark

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