bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Mark H Weaver]

On my i686 Libreboot X60, two consecutive attempts to run "guix package
-u" have failed with the following message:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
grafting '/gnu/store/i8iiv9qd1jndwxxr2h563fwwn0997xkx-cups-2.0.1' -> '/gnu/store/nrdr51fkncjm5nqkx70576g25l4ka5na-cups-2.0.1'...
grafting '/gnu/store/y2f71ym41fp803ysf62k1ajk687xd684-xsensors-0.70' -> '/gnu/store/vhjp122fax73k4vags86q6gqzk5qj232-xsensors-0.70'...
building of `/gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv' timed out after 3600 seconds of silence
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/c2fab7ppy5xqgsglvkdp489n95278izx-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/c2fab7ppy5xqgsglvkdp489n95278izx-profile.drv' failed
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I guess that my machine and rotating disk are too slow to graft texlive
within an hour.

Apart from that, there are a few specific problems:

* It never notified me that it was grafting texlive.  Are those messages
  not printed until after the grafts have completed?

* I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also
  supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default
  there is no timeout".  This seems to be incorrect.

     Mark

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> * I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also
>   supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default
>   there is no timeout".  This seems to be incorrect.

I proceeded to try explicitly passing --timeout=0 to 'guix build', but
that didn't work:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
mhw@jojen:~/guix$ guix build -c1 --timeout=0 texlive
substitute-binary: updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'...
The following derivation will be built:
   /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv
@ build-started /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv - i686-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/an//8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv.bz2
building of `/gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv' timed out after 3600 seconds of silence
@ build-failed /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv - timeout
guix build: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv' failed
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I seem to be stuck now, with no way to update my system :-(

     Mark

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> * I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also
>>   supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default
>>   there is no timeout".  This seems to be incorrect.
>
> I proceeded to try explicitly passing --timeout=0 to 'guix build', but
> that didn't work:

Bah, I see now that --max-silent-time is the relevant option to use
here.  Nevermind :)

     Mark

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> I guess that my machine and rotating disk are too slow to graft texlive
> within an hour.

I was able to do it by passing "--max-silent-time=36000".  It ended up
taking just under 2 hours (real time) to graft texlive on my i686
Libreboot X60 system.

      Mark

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> I was able to do it by passing "--max-silent-time=36000".  It ended up
> taking just under 2 hours (real time) to graft texlive on my i686
> Libreboot X60 system.

With commit 333c376 it may be down to one hour if there are two cores.
Still way too much for something like TeX Live, but an improvement.

Ludo’.

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> I was able to do it by passing "--max-silent-time=36000".  It ended up
>> taking just under 2 hours (real time) to graft texlive on my i686
>> Libreboot X60 system.
>
> With commit 333c376 it may be down to one hour if there are two cores.
> Still way too much for something like TeX Live, but an improvement.

Is this still an issue?  While grafting the texlive package is still
rather slow I haven’t seen anything close to one hour recently.

Can this bug be closed?

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bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I was able to do it by passing "--max-silent-time=36000".  It ended up
>>> taking just under 2 hours (real time) to graft texlive on my i686
>>> Libreboot X60 system.
>>
>> With commit 333c376 it may be down to one hour if there are two cores.
>> Still way too much for something like TeX Live, but an improvement.
>
> Is this still an issue?  While grafting the texlive package is still
> rather slow I haven’t seen anything close to one hour recently.

Same here.  Grafting big packages is still rather slow as you write, but
we shouldn’t have anything as big as the old monolithic texlive package
(4 GiB!).

> Can this bug be closed?

I think so.  Done!

Ludo’.