From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>, 59784@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59784: [version 1.4.0rc1] Retrying a failed install fails
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:50:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfhhr1du.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6xxpsil.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:47:14 +0100")
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Grrr, I’m really silly: we have the same problem (copying the database
before the daemon has been stopped) just a few lines above.
How about this:
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diff --git a/gnu/installer/final.scm b/gnu/installer/final.scm
index 044f79372b..360b34d8cb 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/final.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/final.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2020 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
-;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2022 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -196,14 +196,15 @@ (define (assert-exit x)
;; the loaded cow-store locale files will prevent umounting.
(install-locale locale)
- ;; Save the database, so that it can be restored once the
- ;; cow-store is umounted.
+ ;; Stop the daemon and save the database, so that it can be
+ ;; restored once the cow-store is umounted.
+ (stop-service 'guix-daemon)
(copy-file database-file saved-database)
+
(mount-cow-store (%installer-target-dir) backing-directory))
(lambda ()
;; We need to drag the guix-daemon to the container MNT
;; namespace, so that it can operate on the cow-store.
- (stop-service 'guix-daemon)
(start-service 'guix-daemon (list (number->string (getpid))))
(setvbuf (current-output-port) 'none)
@@ -213,10 +214,13 @@ (define (assert-exit x)
(set! ret (run-command install-command #:tty? #t)))
(lambda ()
- ;; Restart guix-daemon so that it does no keep the MNT namespace
+ ;; Stop guix-daemon so that it does no keep the MNT namespace
;; alive.
- (restart-service 'guix-daemon)
+ (stop-service 'guix-daemon)
+
+ ;; Restore the database and restart it.
(copy-file saved-database database-file)
+ (start-service 'guix-daemon)
;; Finally umount the cow-store and exit the container.
(unmount-cow-store (%installer-target-dir) backing-directory)
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?
This time, I believe we only ever copy the database when we’re sure no
guix-daemon process is accessing it.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-14 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-02 17:52 bug#59784: [version 1.4.0rc1] Retrying a failed install fails pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-09 9:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-09 11:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-10 8:39 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-13 9:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-13 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-13 22:22 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-13 23:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-14 13:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-14 21:47 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-14 23:50 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-12-15 17:46 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-15 20:44 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-16 16:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 20:28 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 11:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-17 19:36 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-17 19:27 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-17 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-18 0:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-12-16 13:55 ` Maxime Devos
2022-12-16 20:17 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-18 16:41 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-12-12 12:07 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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