Simon Streit <simon@netpanic.org> skribis:

> Hello,
>
> quite often, and quite randomly I run into this situation that whenever
> Guix tries to rebuild a profile, and sometimes while downloading from
> local Guix hosts sharing their store items, the process will crash with
> the following error:
>
> ~ $1 reconfigure
> substitute: updating substitutes from 'http://192.168.0.157:3000'...  56.3%Backtrace:
> substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> substitute:   1752:10 17 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> substitute: In unknown file:
> substitute:           16 (apply-smob/0 #<thunk 7f309a1caf60>)
> substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> substitute:     724:2 15 (call-with-prompt _ _ #<procedure default-prompt-handle…>)
> substitute: In ice-9/eval.scm:
> substitute:     619:8 14 (_ #(#(#<directory (guile-user) 7f309a1c4c80>)))
> substitute: In guix/ui.scm:
> substitute:    2206:7 13 (run-guix . _)
> substitute:   2169:10 12 (run-guix-command _ . _)
> substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> substitute:   1752:10 11 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> substitute:   1752:10 10 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
> substitute: In guix/scripts/substitute.scm:
> substitute:    757:18  9 (_)
> substitute:    348:26  8 (process-query #<output: file 4> _ #:cache-urls _ #:acl _)
> substitute: In guix/substitutes.scm:
> substitute:    365:27  7 (lookup-narinfos/diverse _ _ #<procedure 7f309690d320 …> …)
> substitute:    322:31  6 (lookup-narinfos _ _ #:open-connection _ # _)
> substitute:    245:26  5 (fetch-narinfos _ _ #:open-connection _ # _)
> substitute: In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
> substitute:   1685:16  4 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> substitute:   1685:16  3 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> substitute:   1780:13  2 (_ #<&compound-exception components: (#<&assertion-fail…>)
> substitute:   1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> substitute:   1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
> substitute:
> substitute: ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> substitute: Wrong type (expecting exact integer): #f
> guix system: error: `/gnu/store/kcc8zh1fhp05wgw2m48w3gk228j39f5q-guix-1.3.0-21.e427593/bin/guix substitute' died unexpectedly
>
>
> Unfortunately this crash happens at random.  Other times it goes
> through.  Current checkout is ff14bc60e56fb0c6636da1da9a850b7b04abb367,
> which isn't the most current, I know.  I've been observing this behavior
> since some time now, and haven't figured out what the reason is behind
> it yet.  The error message looks similar to [1].
>
> The way this error appears is, that I usually have one host that I
> upgrade first, and then share the checkout and the store between hosts
> to speed up the upgrading process locally.  Unfortunately the updater
> will crash randomly whenever the host starts scanning other hosts that
> are found through mDNS.  Sometimes this happens while fetching new
> packages into a profile.
>
> I've set up publishing:
>
> (service guix-publish-service-type
>               (guix-publish-configuration (host "0.0.0.0")
>                                           (port 3000)
>                                           (ttl #f)
>                                           (advertise? #t)))
>
> and of course host discovery in guix-service-type too.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Simon
>
>
> [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52464

Hi,

I have also seen this kind of crashes on my LAN.
I don't know what causes this issue, but I noticed that it has happened
less often since I activated the cache for the guix-publish service.