'guix system vm-image' hangs

'guix system vm-image' hangs

[George myglc2 Clemmer]

'guix system vm-image' hangs on guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e built
from source today. Please see log except below. It worked on guix (GNU
Guix) 0.14.0.4196-2c92a. built <2018-04-18 Wed>

TIA - George

Note: full log is avail.

g1@g1 ~/src/vm/vms/sysi20$ guix system vm-image --image-size=10G sysi19.scm
substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
The following derivations will be built:
   /gnu/store/s6k5yvpv7ynbrrzmxndga7y6w7zd0hcd-qemu-image.drv
   /gnu/store/82gwqkkzdc7jwfs7v5442qz3mj3fw7bx-parameters.drv
   /gnu/store/yngnp5b7c9316bkc2h1jqcgmkqj2j72z-init.drv
[...]
[    0.558501] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[    0.562147] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1780K
[    0.562741] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 18432k
[    0.563853] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2024K
[    0.565010] Freeing unused kernel memory: 216K
GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread
GC Warning: Couldn't read /proc/stat
Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.
Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.

loading kernel modules...
[    0.627471] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.630380] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[    0.637058] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    0.638165] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    0.638838] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    0.646823] isci: Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller Driver - version 1.2.0
[    0.674476] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
[    0.701700] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
[    0.729258] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
[    0.757009] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
[    0.815977] virtio_blk virtio5: [vda] 20971520 512-byte logical blocks (10.7 GB/10.0 GiB)
[    0.827477] FS-Cache: Loaded
[    0.830625] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
[    0.831776] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support
[    0.832546] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching
configuring QEMU networking...
[    0.846491] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
loading '/gnu/store/30bcjgk80467cgb8fjbpw3ldss5wmn2d-linux-vm-loader'...
[    0.880302] random: fast init done
environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/1n3cvnxrz1m6jqc09d9m1grbfbs91kmv-qemu-minimal-2.12.0/bin:/gnu/store/h8670f6j1rawhhaz8wvdy5gv79lny0am-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/bin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/sbin:/gnu/store/0sq2nflm42x0znkv44add0gk82khkcb6-dosfstools-4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/0hl513mnpkhszm2hjai2w9cxmpxs0vgq-sed-4.4/bin:/gnu/store/1h44pkgdd7n6s3i2vjh54awsvfmc219j-grep-3.1/bin:/gnu/store/kgzvfby2ggi1xawsh5vjh4s93qk2dp9k-coreutils-8.28/bin:/gnu/store/k7r2m2wgj8x8jjhccwjsiimp0dlzxb7i-findutils-4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/ahxc89r6npzf2bbl8yg5vdjicskzzjf3-gawk-4.1.4/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/sbin
 '
creating partition table with 2 partitions (10190.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)...
[    1.344115] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.348 MHz
[    1.344865] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x30e6121e742, max_idle_ns: 440795321217 ns
[    1.856062] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
  C-c C-c
g1@g1 ~/src/vm/vms/sysi20$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e

Re: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Eric Bavier]

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Hi George,

I've seen the same lately with 'guix system vm':

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:39:30 -0400
George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:

> 'guix system vm-image' hangs on guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e built
> from source today. Please see log except below. It worked on guix (GNU
> Guix) 0.14.0.4196-2c92a. built <2018-04-18 Wed>
> 
> TIA - George
> 
[...]
> environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/1n3cvnxrz1m6jqc09d9m1grbfbs91kmv-qemu-minimal-2.12.0/bin:/gnu/store/h8670f6j1rawhhaz8wvdy5gv79lny0am-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/bin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/sbin:/gnu/store/0sq2nflm42x0znkv44add0gk82khkcb6-dosfstools-4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/0hl513mnpkhszm2hjai2w9cxmpxs0vgq-sed-4.4/bin:/gnu/store/1h44pkgdd7n6s3i2vjh54awsvfmc219j-grep-3.1/bin:/gnu/store/kgzvfby2ggi1xawsh5vjh4s93qk2dp9k-coreutils-8.28/bin:/gnu/store/k7r2m2wgj8x8jjhccwjsiimp0dlzxb7i-findutils-4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/ahxc89r6npzf2bbl8yg5vdjicskzzjf3-gawk-4.1.4/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/sbin'
> creating partition table with 2 partitions (10190.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)...
> [    1.344115] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.348 MHz
> [    1.344865] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x30e6121e742, max_idle_ns: 440795321217 ns
> [    1.856062] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
>   C-c C-c

Same log output on my end.

> g1@g1 ~/src/vm/vms/sysi20$ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e
> 

I bisected the git repo to commit:

```
commit ba39d3280759fb20a4ff0092a5afac721a5fa769
Author: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 24 16:51:45 2018 -0400

    gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16.4.

    * gnu/packages/linux.scm (%linux-libre-version): Update to 4.16.4.
    (%linux-libre-hash): Update hash.

```

Perhaps we should open a bug.

`~Eric

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Re: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[George myglc2 Clemmer]

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On 04/26/2018 at 03:37 Eric Bavier writes:

> Hi George,
>
> I've seen the same lately with 'guix system vm':
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:39:30 -0400
> George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 'guix system vm-image' hangs on guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e built
>> from source today. Please see log except below. It worked on guix (GNU
>> Guix) 0.14.0.4196-2c92a. built <2018-04-18 Wed>
>>
>> TIA - George
>>
> [...]
>> environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/1n3cvnxrz1m6jqc09d9m1grbfbs91kmv-qemu-minimal-2.12.0/bin:/gnu/store/h8670f6j1rawhhaz8wvdy5gv79lny0am-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/bin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/sbin:/gnu/store/0sq2nflm42x0znkv44add0gk82khkcb6-dosfstools-4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/0hl513mnpkhszm2hjai2w9cxmpxs0vgq-sed-4.4/bin:/gnu/store/1h44pkgdd7n6s3i2vjh54awsvfmc219j-grep-3.1/bin:/gnu/store/kgzvfby2ggi1xawsh5vjh4s93qk2dp9k-coreutils-8.28/bin:/gnu/store/k7r2m2wgj8x8jjhccwjsiimp0dlzxb7i-findutils-4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/ahxc89r6npzf2bbl8yg5vdjicskzzjf3-gawk-4.1.4/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/bin:/gnu/store/cwwvdxd9d778a2xp8vbb38vl62rx992g-guix-0.14.0-11.ab85cf7/s
 bin'
>> creating partition table with 2 partitions (10190.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)...
>> [    1.344115] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3392.348 MHz
>> [    1.344865] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x30e6121e742, max_idle_ns: 440795321217 ns
>> [    1.856062] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
>>   C-c C-c
>
> Same log output on my end.
>
>> g1@g1 ~/src/vm/vms/sysi20$ guix --version
>> guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e
>>
>
> I bisected the git repo to commit:
>
> ```
> commit ba39d3280759fb20a4ff0092a5afac721a5fa769
> Author: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Date:   Tue Apr 24 16:51:45 2018 -0400
>
>     gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16.4.
>
>     * gnu/packages/linux.scm (%linux-libre-version): Update to 4.16.4.
>     (%linux-libre-hash): Update hash.
>
> ```
>
> Perhaps we should open a bug.
>
> `~Eric

Thank you Eric! Actually I meant to send it to bug-guix@gnu.org
before. Here is something that fails here.

guix system vm-image --image-size=10G sysi19.scm


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;; -*-Scheme-*-
;;; minimal 'guix system vm-image' config ~ sys.scm
(define sys-packages
  '(
    "cups"
    "git"
    "glibc-utf8-locales"
    "nss-certs"
    "openssh"
    "screen"
    ))
(use-modules (gnu))
(use-modules (gnu packages))
(use-modules (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules
 avahi
 networking ; dhcp-client-service
 ssh ; openssh-service-type
 )
(operating-system
  (host-name "sysi19")
  (timezone "America/New_York")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")
  (bootloader (grub-configuration (target "/dev/sda")))
  (file-systems (cons (file-system
			(device "g1sd")
			(title 'label)
			(mount-point "/")
			(type "ext4"))
		      %base-file-systems))
  (users (cons*
	  (user-account
	   (name "g1")
	   (group "users")
	   (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
	   (home-directory "/home/g1"))
	  (user-account
	   (name "al")
	   (group "users")
	   (supplementary-groups '("wheel"))
	   (home-directory "/home/al"))
	  %base-user-accounts))
  (packages (append (map specification->package sys-packages)
		    %base-packages))
  (services (cons*
	     (dhcp-client-service)
	     (service openssh-service-type
		      (openssh-configuration
		       (x11-forwarding? #t)
		       (permit-root-login #t)
		       (allow-empty-passwords? #t)
		       (authorized-keys
			`(
			  ("g1" ,(local-file "glc.pub"))
			  ("al" ,(local-file "glc.pub"))
			  ("root" ,(local-file "glc.pub"))))))
	     (avahi-service)
	     (ntp-service)
	     %base-services))
  (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:

> Thank you Eric! Actually I meant to send it to bug-guix@gnu.org
> before. Here is something that fails here.
>
> guix system vm-image --image-size=10G sysi19.scm

As of 37b9be5878d1694967a41d313de97f7a957df120 I see that ‘guix system
vm’ or “make check-system TESTS=basic” hang.  Specifically, the VM that
creates the image hangs like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile.
Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL.

loading kernel modules...
[    0.618457] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    0.620812] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[    0.626976] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    0.628093] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    0.628804] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    0.635125] isci: Intel(R) C600 SAS Controller Driver - version 1.2.0
[    0.654740] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
[    0.673721] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
[    0.693204] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
[    0.714857] PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
[    0.759651] virtio_blk virtio5: [vda] 143360 512-byte logical blocks (73.4 MB/70.0 MiB)
[    0.765620] FS-Cache: Loaded
[    0.767868] 9pnet: Installing 9P2000 support
[    0.768899] 9p: Installing v9fs 9p2000 file system support
[    0.769556] FS-Cache: Netfs '9p' registered for caching
configuring QEMU networking...
[    0.780494] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
loading '/gnu/store/d116816xkzfaa7y1d2srvbxy5ip5cm12-linux-vm-loader'...
[    0.802603] random: fast init done
environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/1n3cvnxrz1m6jqc09d9m1grbfbs91kmv-qemu-minimal-2.12.0/bin:/gnu/store/h8670f6j1rawhhaz8wvdy5gv79lny0am-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/bin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/sbin:/gnu/store/0sq2nflm42x0znkv44add0gk82khkcb6-dosfstools-4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/0hl513mnpkhszm2hjai2w9cxmpxs0vgq-sed-4.4/bin:/gnu/store/1h44pkgdd7n6s3i2vjh54awsvfmc219j-grep-3.1/bin:/gnu/store/kgzvfby2ggi1xawsh5vjh4s93qk2dp9k-coreutils-8.28/bin:/gnu/store/k7r2m2wgj8x8jjhccwjsiimp0dlzxb7i-findutils-4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/ahxc89r6npzf2bbl8yg5vdjicskzzjf3-gawk-4.1.4/bin'
creating partition table with 2 partitions (20.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)...
[    1.344130] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2808.014 MHz
[    1.345186] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2879d389cc4, max_idle_ns: 440795324601 ns
[    1.792320] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Reverting ba39d3280759fb20a4ff0092a5afac721a5fa769 (“gnu: linux-libre:
Update to 4.16.4.”) solves the problem for me.

Normally what we see is something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
loading '/gnu/store/4i02v1lvw9nwzcfs5l1il9grhkw17iqm-linux-vm-loader'...
environment variable `PATH' set to `/gnu/store/1n3cvnxrz1m6jqc09d9m1grbfbs91kmv-qemu-minimal-2.12.0/bin:/gnu/store/h8670f6j1rawhhaz8wvdy5gv79lny0am-parted-3.2/sbin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/bin:/gnu/store/nm305rpb2mvridkyj4l3636nc9ql4lf9-e2fsprogs-1.43.6/sbin:/gnu/store/0sq2nflm42x0znkv44add0gk82khkcb6-dosfstools-4.1/sbin:/gnu/store/0hl513mnpkhszm2hjai2w9cxmpxs0vgq-sed-4.4/bin:/gnu/store/1h44pkgdd7n6s3i2vjh54awsvfmc219j-grep-3.1/bin:/gnu/store/kgzvfby2ggi1xawsh5vjh4s93qk2dp9k-coreutils-8.28/bin:/gnu/store/k7r2m2wgj8x8jjhccwjsiimp0dlzxb7i-findutils-4.6.0/bin:/gnu/store/ahxc89r6npzf2bbl8yg5vdjicskzzjf3-gawk-4.1.4/bin'
creating partition table with 2 partitions (20.0 MiB, 40.0 MiB)...
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
creating ext4 partition...
mke2fs 1.43.6 (29-Aug-2017)
ext2fs_check_if_mount: Can't check if filesystem is mounted due to missing mtab file while determining whether /dev/vda1 is mounted.
Creating filesystem with 20480 1k blocks and 5136 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bb8da7fb-04b2-437e-887a-f468da978a40
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	8193

Allocating group tables: done                            
Writing inode tables: done                            
Creating journal (1024 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

[    0.979292] EXT4-fs (vda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
…
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So it seems that the VM image hangs when trying to run Parted.

Mark, are you aware of anything particular that could explain this?
Perhaps a regression/incompatible change in 9P or virtio?

Ludo’.

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Mark H Weaver]

George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 04/26/2018 at 03:37 Eric Bavier writes:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> I've seen the same lately with 'guix system vm':
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:39:30 -0400
>> George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 'guix system vm-image' hangs on guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e built
>>> from source today. Please see log except below. It worked on guix (GNU
>>> Guix) 0.14.0.4196-2c92a. built <2018-04-18 Wed>

[...]

>> I bisected the git repo to commit:
>>
>> ```
>> commit ba39d3280759fb20a4ff0092a5afac721a5fa769
>> Author: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
>> Date:   Tue Apr 24 16:51:45 2018 -0400
>>
>>     gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16.4.
>>
>>     * gnu/packages/linux.scm (%linux-libre-version): Update to 4.16.4.
>>     (%linux-libre-hash): Update hash.

FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
still persists?

       Mark

Re: bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Mark H Weaver]

George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> writes:

> On 04/26/2018 at 03:37 Eric Bavier writes:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> I've seen the same lately with 'guix system vm':
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:39:30 -0400
>> George myglc2 Clemmer <myglc2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 'guix system vm-image' hangs on guix (GNU Guix) 0.14.0.4439-eb88e built
>>> from source today. Please see log except below. It worked on guix (GNU
>>> Guix) 0.14.0.4196-2c92a. built <2018-04-18 Wed>

[...]

>> I bisected the git repo to commit:
>>
>> ```
>> commit ba39d3280759fb20a4ff0092a5afac721a5fa769
>> Author: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
>> Date:   Tue Apr 24 16:51:45 2018 -0400
>>
>>     gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16.4.
>>
>>     * gnu/packages/linux.scm (%linux-libre-version): Update to 4.16.4.
>>     (%linux-libre-hash): Update hash.

FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
still persists?

       Mark

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hello Mark,

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

> FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
> updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
> still persists?

It does.

I instrumented the code to see what happens.  Opening /dev/vda works
fine, invoking “parted --version” works, so it’s really just ‘parted’
that hangs when asked to do the real thing (with 0% CPU consumption.)

However, if we strace it as with the patch below, it succeeds.  It
doesn’t seem to be a simple timing issue because adding (sleep 2) before
the parted invocation doesn’t make a difference.

To be continued…

Ludo’.


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diff --git a/gnu/build/vm.scm b/gnu/build/vm.scm
index 527b4c495..b73c8f912 100644
--- a/gnu/build/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/vm.scm
@@ -242,9 +242,21 @@ actual /dev name based on DEVICE."
                                      partition-size)
                             partitions)
                        ", "))
-  (apply invoke "parted" "--script"
+  (pk 'parted (which "parted"))
+  (pk 'parted2 (stat (which "parted")))
+  (pk 'opts device partitions offset)
+  (pk 'actual-options "parted" "--script"
          device "mklabel" label-type
          (options partitions offset))
+  (pk 'stat device (stat device))
+  (invoke "parted" "--version")
+  ;; (pk 'open-device device (open-fdes device O_WRONLY))
+  (pk 'parted)
+  (apply invoke "strace" "-s" "123"
+         "parted" "--script"
+         device "mklabel" label-type
+         (options partitions offset))
+  (pk 'parted-done)
 
   ;; Set the 'device' field of each partition.
   (reverse
diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 09a11af86..ba54a71dd 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ the image."
                       (ice-9 binary-ports))
 
          (let ((inputs
-                '#$(append (list qemu parted e2fsprogs dosfstools)
+                '#$(append (list strace qemu parted e2fsprogs dosfstools)
                            (map canonical-package
                                 (list sed grep coreutils findutils gawk))
                            (if register-closures? (list guix) '())))

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Mark H Weaver]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
>> updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
>> still persists?
>
> It does.

I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/?h=linux-4.16.y

      Mark

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Clément Lassieur]

Hi,

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

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> FYI, I just pushed commit 8c21c64e59d3f4d223d8aeef91f06fdde7de1ab7 which
>>> updates linux-libre to 4.16.6.  Would you like to see if the problem
>>> still persists?
>>
>> It does.
>
> I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
> git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.

I did it, here is the result:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d is the first bad commit
commit cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed Apr 11 13:27:52 2018 -0400

    random: fix crng_ready() test
    
    commit 43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33 upstream.
    
    The crng_init variable has three states:
    
    0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
    1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
       early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
    2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for
       cryptographic use cases.
    
    The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the
    last state.  This addresses CVE-2018-1108.
    
    Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Fixes: e192be9d9a30 ("random: replace non-blocking pool...")
    Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
    Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

:040000 040000 4bdc62a4604b0a754614e8601ce794f316e83622 da682af7d9d779f193becb7757a8722a71e5d85d M      drivers
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Clément

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:

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

[...]

>> I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
>> git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.
>
> I did it, here is the result:

Impressive, thanks a lot!  Did you have a script to do that or
something?

> cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d is the first bad commit
> commit cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d
> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> Date:   Wed Apr 11 13:27:52 2018 -0400
>
>     random: fix crng_ready() test
>     
>     commit 43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33 upstream.
>     
>     The crng_init variable has three states:
>     
>     0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
>     1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
>        early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
>     2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for
>        cryptographic use cases.
>     
>     The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the
>     last state.  This addresses CVE-2018-1108.

What happens I think is that libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c:fat_create calls
‘generate_random_uint32’, which in turn indirectly calls
‘get_random_bytes’ from libuuid (package ‘e2fsprogs’).  And I suppose
that’s where it blocks, even though it’s supposed to be using
/dev/urandom, which is not supposed to block.

To be continued…

Ludo’.

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Clément Lassieur]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
>>> git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.
>>
>> I did it, here is the result:
>
> Impressive, thanks a lot!  Did you have a script to do that or
> something?

You're welcome!  I just used the "git bisect" command on a local git
repository that was pointed to by linux-libre <origin>.  Automating it
with "git bisect run" wasn't worth it because there were only 8 tests to
do (log2(196)).

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>>
>>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
>>>> git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.
>>>
>>> I did it, here is the result:
>>
>> Impressive, thanks a lot!  Did you have a script to do that or
>> something?
>
> You're welcome!  I just used the "git bisect" command on a local git
> repository that was pointed to by linux-libre <origin>.  Automating it
> with "git bisect run" wasn't worth it because there were only 8 tests to
> do (log2(196)).

Nice, I was expecting it to require more tests.  Thanks again!

Ludo’.

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

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Hello!

(+Cc: Leo for randomness input.)

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> skribis:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I suggest doing a git bisect on the 4.16.y branch of the linux-stable
>>> git repository, between the 4.16.3 and 4.16.4 tags.
>>
>> I did it, here is the result:
>
> Impressive, thanks a lot!  Did you have a script to do that or
> something?
>
>> cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d is the first bad commit
>> commit cd8d7a5778a4abf76ee8fe8f1bfcf78976029f8d
>> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>> Date:   Wed Apr 11 13:27:52 2018 -0400
>>
>>     random: fix crng_ready() test
>>     
>>     commit 43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33 upstream.
>>     
>>     The crng_init variable has three states:
>>     
>>     0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
>>     1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
>>        early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
>>     2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for
>>        cryptographic use cases.
>>     
>>     The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the
>>     last state.  This addresses CVE-2018-1108.
>
> What happens I think is that libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c:fat_create calls
> ‘generate_random_uint32’, which in turn indirectly calls
> ‘get_random_bytes’ from libuuid (package ‘e2fsprogs’).  And I suppose
> that’s where it blocks, even though it’s supposed to be using
> /dev/urandom, which is not supposed to block.

I was looking at the wrong code: we’re using libuuid from util-linux,
which in turn uses getrandom(2).  Since it doesn’t pass the
GRND_NONBLOCK flag, it ends up blocking forever because too little
entropy is available in the VM.

The following patches work around that:

  1. Parted now explicitly uses getrandom(2) with GRND_NONBLOCK instead
     of libuuid’s ‘uuid_generate’, which is good enough for this
     purpose.  I’ll submit it upstream.

  2. e2fsprogs is changed to use a libuuid that passes GRND_NONBLOCK.
     It does the job, but it’s quite inelegant.

Another approach I looked at was to seed the VM’s PRNG from /dev/hwrng,
which I thought was connected to the host via ‘virtio-rng-pci’, but I
get ENODEV while trying to read from /dev/hwrng in the guest like this:


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diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index b6561dfc7..3bfd6b4ca 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ the image."
 
            (set-path-environment-variable "PATH" '("bin" "sbin") inputs)
 
+           ;; Try writing from /dev/hwrng into /dev/urandom.
+           ;; It seems that the file /dev/hwrng always exists, even
+           ;; when there is no hardware random number generator
+           ;; available. So, we handle a failed read or any other error
+           ;; reported by the operating system.
+           (let ((buf (call-with-input-file "/dev/hwrng"
+                        (lambda (hwrng)
+                          (get-bytevector-n hwrng 512)))))
+             (call-with-output-file "/dev/urandom"
+               (lambda (urandom)
+                 (put-bytevector urandom buf))))
+
            (let* ((graphs     '#$(match inputs
                                    (((names . _) ...)
                                     names)))

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Am I missing something, Leo?

In short, we’re almost done with this bug, now we just need to make sure
we have a reasonable fix.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


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From 43357218f024b251fc2b741dc3e8bdc4c001051f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 18:07:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: e2fsprogs: Use libuuid with non-blocking random.

Partly fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (util-linux/libuuid-non-blocking-random): New
variable.
(e2fsprogs)[inputs]: Use it instead of UTIL-LINUX.
---
 gnu/packages/linux.scm                          | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 ...util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch

diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index bb4e00394..c93947e68 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -671,6 +671,20 @@ block devices, UUIDs, TTYs, and many other tools.")
                 (append (origin-patches (package-source util-linux))
                         (search-patches "util-linux-CVE-2018-7738.patch")))))))
 
+(define-public util-linux/libuuid-non-blocking-random
+  ;; Package variant where libuuid uses non-blocking (weak) random.  See
+  ;; <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
+  (package
+    (inherit util-linux)
+    (name "util-linux-weak-random")
+    (source (let ((source (package-source util-linux)))
+              (origin
+                (inherit source)
+                (patches (append (search-patches
+                                  "util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch")
+                                 (origin-patches source))))))
+    (properties '((hidden? . #t)))))
+
 (define-public ddate
   (package
     (name "ddate")
@@ -779,7 +793,8 @@ slabtop, and skill.")
               (base32
                "00ilv65dzcgiap435j89xk86shf7rrav3wsik7cahy789qijdcn9"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
-    (inputs `(("util-linux" ,util-linux)))
+    ;; Arrange so that 'mke2fs' doesn't wait: <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
+    (inputs `(("util-linux" ,util-linux/libuuid-non-blocking-random)))
     (native-inputs `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
                      ("texinfo" ,texinfo)       ;for the libext2fs Info manual
 
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0b3ea24d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/util-linux-libuuid-non-blocking-random.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Change libuuid so that 'uuid_generate' is non-blocking.  This is needed when
+'mke2fs' is used during early boot in VMs with little entropy available.
+See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
+
+--- a/lib/randutils.c
++++ b/lib/randutils.c
+@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ void random_get_bytes(void *buf, size_t nbytes)
+ 		int x;
+ 
+ 		errno = 0;
+-		x = getrandom(cp, n, 0);
++		x = getrandom(cp, n, GRND_NONBLOCK);
+ 		if (x > 0) {			/* success */
+ 		       n -= x;
+ 		       cp += x;
-- 
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From 3110c594afb8839ba81b528f316b6d6dce757e99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:34:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: parted: Use weak (non-blocking) randomness for FAT
 serial numbers.

Partly fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.

* gnu/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch: New file.
* gnu/packages/disk.scm (parted)[source]: Use it.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
---
 gnu/local.mk                                  |  1 +
 gnu/packages/disk.scm                         |  3 +-
 .../patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch  | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch

diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 20975306b..4222050b5 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -975,6 +975,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/p7zip-CVE-2017-17969.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/p7zip-remove-unused-code.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/password-store-gnupg-compat.patch	\
+  %D%/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/patchelf-page-size.patch			\
   %D%/packages/patches/patchelf-rework-for-arm.patch		\
   %D%/packages/patches/patchutils-xfail-gendiff-tests.patch	\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/disk.scm b/gnu/packages/disk.scm
index d7bf72683..476b26acb 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/disk.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/disk.scm
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@
                                   version ".tar.xz"))
               (sha256
                (base32
-                "1r3qpg3bhz37mgvp9chsaa3k0csby3vayfvz8ggsqz194af5i2w5"))))
+                "1r3qpg3bhz37mgvp9chsaa3k0csby3vayfvz8ggsqz194af5i2w5"))
+              (patches (search-patches "parted-non-blocking-random.patch"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:phases
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e30d9f413
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/parted-non-blocking-random.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Explicitly use a non-blocking random primitive.  This is used primarily
+to compute FAT "serial numbers" in libparted/fs/r/fat/fat.c:fat_create,
+for which GRND_NONBLOCK is probably good enough.
+
+Assume the running kernel does support 'getrandom', which is the case on
+GuixSD.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
+
+--- a/libparted/labels/misc.h
++++ b/libparted/labels/misc.h
+@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
+     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+ 
+ #include <inttypes.h>
+-#include <uuid/uuid.h>
++#include <sys/random.h>
++#include <errno.h>
+ 
+ /* hack: use the ext2 uuid library to generate a reasonably random (hopefully
+  * with /dev/random) number.  Unfortunately, we can only use 4 bytes of it.
+@@ -28,11 +29,17 @@ static inline uint32_t
+ generate_random_uint32 (void)
+ {
+        union {
+-               uuid_t uuid;
++               char uuid[4];
+                uint32_t i;
+        } uu32;
++       ssize_t ret;
+ 
+-       uuid_generate (uu32.uuid);
++       do
++         ret = getrandom (uu32.uuid, sizeof uu32, GRND_NONBLOCK);
++       while (ret == EAGAIN);
++
++       if (ret < sizeof uu32)
++         abort ();
+ 
+        return uu32.i > 0 ? uu32.i : 0xffffffff;
+ }
-- 
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From 8aa37a4124db90a9991485477d1af85677c7fa1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:36:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] vm: Use a deterministic file system UUID in shared-store
 VMs.

* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store): Pass
 #:file-system-uuid to 'qemu-image'.
---
 gnu/system/vm.scm | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 09a11af86..b6561dfc7 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -752,6 +752,13 @@ with the host.
 When FULL-BOOT? is true, return an image that does a complete boot sequence,
 bootloaded included; thus, make a disk image that contains everything the
 bootloader refers to: OS kernel, initrd, bootloader data, etc."
+  (define root-uuid
+    ;; Use a fixed UUID so that 'mke2fs' doesn't wait for strong randomness
+    ;; while generating a UUID.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
+    ;; XXX: Actually it doesn't help since 'mke2fs' calls 'uuid_generate'
+    ;; anyway.
+    (operating-system-uuid os 'dce))
+
   (mlet* %store-monad ((os-drv   (operating-system-derivation os))
                        (bootcfg  (operating-system-bootcfg os)))
     ;; XXX: When FULL-BOOT? is true, we end up creating an image that contains
@@ -763,6 +770,7 @@ bootloader refers to: OS kernel, initrd, bootloader data, etc."
                 #:bootloader (bootloader-configuration-bootloader
                               (operating-system-bootloader os))
                 #:disk-image-size disk-image-size
+                #:file-system-uuid root-uuid
                 #:inputs (if full-boot?
                              `(("bootcfg" ,bootcfg))
                              '())
-- 
2.17.0

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 06:23:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> (+Cc: Leo for randomness input.)

<snip>

> 
> Another approach I looked at was to seed the VM’s PRNG from /dev/hwrng,
> which I thought was connected to the host via ‘virtio-rng-pci’, but I
> get ENODEV while trying to read from /dev/hwrng in the guest like this:
> 

> diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
> index b6561dfc7..3bfd6b4ca 100644
> --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
> +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
> @@ -319,6 +319,18 @@ the image."
>  
>             (set-path-environment-variable "PATH" '("bin" "sbin") inputs)
>  
> +           ;; Try writing from /dev/hwrng into /dev/urandom.
> +           ;; It seems that the file /dev/hwrng always exists, even
> +           ;; when there is no hardware random number generator
> +           ;; available. So, we handle a failed read or any other error
> +           ;; reported by the operating system.
> +           (let ((buf (call-with-input-file "/dev/hwrng"
> +                        (lambda (hwrng)
> +                          (get-bytevector-n hwrng 512)))))
> +             (call-with-output-file "/dev/urandom"
> +               (lambda (urandom)
> +                 (put-bytevector urandom buf))))
> +
>             (let* ((graphs     '#$(match inputs
>                                     (((names . _) ...)
>                                      names)))

> 
> Am I missing something, Leo?
> 
> In short, we’re almost done with this bug, now we just need to make sure
> we have a reasonable fix.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

I can confirm that on the aarch64 machines I've tested there is a
/dev/hwrng.

Another option for entropy is haveged. http://issihosts.com/haveged/
It's not very actively maintained, but it is used by other distros for
randomness on headless machines.

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bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Ludovic,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I was looking at the wrong code: we’re using libuuid from util-linux,
> which in turn uses getrandom(2).  Since it doesn’t pass the
> GRND_NONBLOCK flag, it ends up blocking forever because too little
> entropy is available in the VM.
>
> The following patches work around that:
>
>   1. Parted now explicitly uses getrandom(2) with GRND_NONBLOCK instead
>      of libuuid’s ‘uuid_generate’, which is good enough for this
>      purpose.  I’ll submit it upstream.
>
>   2. e2fsprogs is changed to use a libuuid that passes GRND_NONBLOCK.
>      It does the job, but it’s quite inelegant.

I'm uncomfortable with this approach.  I think that it's proper for uuid
generation to block if there's not enough entropy.

> Another approach I looked at was to seed the VM’s PRNG from /dev/hwrng,
> which I thought was connected to the host via ‘virtio-rng-pci’, but I
> get ENODEV while trying to read from /dev/hwrng in the guest like this:

I much prefer this approach, where we seed the VM's PRNG from another
source.

> From 8aa37a4124db90a9991485477d1af85677c7fa1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:36:35 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] vm: Use a deterministic file system UUID in shared-store
>  VMs.
> 
> * gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store): Pass
>  #:file-system-uuid to 'qemu-image'.
> ---
>  gnu/system/vm.scm | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
> index 09a11af86..b6561dfc7 100644
> --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
> +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
> @@ -752,6 +752,13 @@ with the host.
>  When FULL-BOOT? is true, return an image that does a complete boot sequence,
>  bootloaded included; thus, make a disk image that contains everything the
>  bootloader refers to: OS kernel, initrd, bootloader data, etc."
> +  (define root-uuid
> +    ;; Use a fixed UUID so that 'mke2fs' doesn't wait for strong randomness
> +    ;; while generating a UUID.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
> +    ;; XXX: Actually it doesn't help since 'mke2fs' calls 'uuid_generate'
> +    ;; anyway.

How about fixing mke2fs so that if you specify a fixed UUID, it won't
try to generate a random one?  Would that be sufficient?

      Thanks,
        Mark

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mark,

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

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I was looking at the wrong code: we’re using libuuid from util-linux,
>> which in turn uses getrandom(2).  Since it doesn’t pass the
>> GRND_NONBLOCK flag, it ends up blocking forever because too little
>> entropy is available in the VM.
>>
>> The following patches work around that:
>>
>>   1. Parted now explicitly uses getrandom(2) with GRND_NONBLOCK instead
>>      of libuuid’s ‘uuid_generate’, which is good enough for this
>>      purpose.  I’ll submit it upstream.
>>
>>   2. e2fsprogs is changed to use a libuuid that passes GRND_NONBLOCK.
>>      It does the job, but it’s quite inelegant.
>
> I'm uncomfortable with this approach.  I think that it's proper for uuid
> generation to block if there's not enough entropy.

Yeah, I think #1 is OK because it’s “just” FAT serial numbers, but #2
could be more problematic.

We could keep these package variants private though, and use them only
for the purposes of ‘qemu-image’ if we don’t find a better solution.

>> From 8aa37a4124db90a9991485477d1af85677c7fa1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 17:36:35 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] vm: Use a deterministic file system UUID in shared-store
>>  VMs.
>> 
>> * gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store): Pass
>>  #:file-system-uuid to 'qemu-image'.
>> ---
>>  gnu/system/vm.scm | 8 ++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
>> index 09a11af86..b6561dfc7 100644
>> --- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
>> @@ -752,6 +752,13 @@ with the host.
>>  When FULL-BOOT? is true, return an image that does a complete boot sequence,
>>  bootloaded included; thus, make a disk image that contains everything the
>>  bootloader refers to: OS kernel, initrd, bootloader data, etc."
>> +  (define root-uuid
>> +    ;; Use a fixed UUID so that 'mke2fs' doesn't wait for strong randomness
>> +    ;; while generating a UUID.  See <https://bugs.gnu.org/31268>.
>> +    ;; XXX: Actually it doesn't help since 'mke2fs' calls 'uuid_generate'
>> +    ;; anyway.
>
> How about fixing mke2fs so that if you specify a fixed UUID, it won't
> try to generate a random one?  Would that be sufficient?

mke2fs generates two UUIDs:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
	if (fs_uuid) { … }
        else
		uuid_generate(fs->super->s_uuid);

        [...]

	uuid_generate((unsigned char *) fs->super->s_hash_seed);
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The first ‘uuid_generate’ call is omitted when we pass “-U UUID” but the
second one isn’t.  I don’t think we can get around it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

bug#31268: 'guix system vm-image' hangs

[Ludovic Courtès]

Bah, it turns out virtio-rng was simply not enabled, so commit
d282388789a21ae031035e9fd8e94a72463d0c96 fixes that.

Done!

Ludo'.