Re: Offloading acquired build slot loop

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi,

Les Harris <les@lesharris.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Could you double-check whether this command succeeds as root and
>> non-interactively (no passphrase prompt):
>>
>>   lsh -l USER build.server.com cat /proc/loadavg
>
> As a followup to this, this set me on the right track. Thank you!  It is
> very obvious in hindsight but only my user could lsh into the build
> server, root did not have the needed key.  Once that was fixed I could
> proceed.

Good to know.  :-)

> I ran into two further issues that I have resolved.
>
> Issue 1)  The offload build failed saying there was no code for module
> (guix config)  because the build server guile could not find guix in its
> loadpath since I had installed guix to /usr/local   I just symlinked in
> /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0 to the right place in the /usr/share
> tree and this was resolved.
>
> Issue 2) The offload build failed with a permission denied error when
> trying to access the guix daemon's socket.  The user local-guix was
> using to lsh into the build server did not have write permissions (it
> had read) on the socket file.  Giving that user write permissions fixed
> this issue.
>
> So combine those three additional things with my initial setup and now I
> have functioning offloading.

Great.  Well, I reckon this is a terrible user experience.  :-/

> There are many hidden assumptions in setting up the offloading that I
> feel should be documented.  Are documentation patches accepted?

Definitely, yes!

Thank you,
Ludo’.