Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[Wamm K. D.]

Hey, hey; 'not sure what caused this but my ~guix~ command suddenly
started getting stuck, when I do a pull or try to install a package,
after

> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%

I haven't let it run for longer than an hour but it just sits there and
doesn't progress any further. When I run ~guix upgrade~, it halts,
similarly, after listing which programs it's going to upgrade.

Anyone, possibly, know what this is (or, at least, how I might get
around it)?

Thanks for any help!

Re: Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

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Wamm K. D. 写道：
>> substitute: updating substitutes from 
>> 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>
> I haven't let it run for longer than an hour but it just sits 
> there and
> doesn't progress any further. When I run ~guix upgrade~, it 
> halts,
> similarly, after listing which programs it's going to upgrade.
>
> Anyone, possibly, know what this is (or, at least, how I might 
> get
> around it)?

Sure: 
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-05/msg00243.html>

Use ‘--substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org’ (i.e., remove 
bordeaux from the default list) until it's resolved.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Re: Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[Wamm K. D.]

On Wed. (May 25, 2022) at 01:19:50 AM +02, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> Use ‘--substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org’ (i.e., remove bordeaux
> from the default list) until it's resolved.

Huzzah! That did it. Thanks so much, Tobias.

Re: Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[Wil deBeest]

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Thank you! 

I've been having the same problem and had no idea what caused it.

Wouldn't adding a timeout make sense? Either with a sensible default time and options to change or disable it or just configuration options that would be documented in the "channels" section?

If timeouts aren't an option, a message like "could not reach substitute server [server-name] ([time/unit])"* would already be much more be helpful than the current state for those of us who are not (yet) that familiar with guix.   

I regularly feel like guix errors could give more useful information. Is this due to design decisions or something that just hasn't been considered or worked on?


* Optionally with additional information like "Press 'Control C' to abort" and "You can temporarily disable this substitute server by adding  '--substitute-urls=[server-name] to the command that got you here.'"

> On 25. May 2022, at 01:21, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> 
> Wamm K. D. 写道：
>>> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>> 
>> I haven't let it run for longer than an hour but it just sits there and
>> doesn't progress any further. When I run ~guix upgrade~, it halts,
>> similarly, after listing which programs it's going to upgrade.
>> 
>> Anyone, possibly, know what this is (or, at least, how I might get
>> around it)?
> 
> Sure: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-05/msg00243.html>
> 
> Use ‘--substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.gnu.org’ (i.e., remove bordeaux from the default list) until it's resolved.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R

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Re: Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[raingloom]

On Tue, 24 May 2022 17:55:20 -0500
"Wamm K. D." <jaft.r@outlook.com> wrote:

> Hey, hey; 'not sure what caused this but my ~guix~ command suddenly
> started getting stuck, when I do a pull or try to install a package,
> after
> 
> > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'...
> > 100.0%  
> 
> I haven't let it run for longer than an hour but it just sits there
> and doesn't progress any further. When I run ~guix upgrade~, it halts,
> similarly, after listing which programs it's going to upgrade.
> 
> Anyone, possibly, know what this is (or, at least, how I might get
> around it)?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 

For some quick diagnostics maybe you could try running it with strace,
or attaching strace to the running process to see if it's stuck on a
system call or if it's some kind of deadlock or livelock or other
concurrency related fun.
Actually... I thiiink I've experienced a hang like this on my i686
machine, but aborting it and running pull again fixed it.
Does it happen always?

Re: Guix Halts After "updating substitutes from …"

[Wamm K. D.]

On Wed. (May 25, 2022) at 01:22:31 AM +02, raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote:
> Actually... I thiiink I've experienced a hang like this on my i686
> machine, but aborting it and running pull again fixed it.
> Does it happen always?

Thankfully, no; Tobias had the scoop:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-05/msg00243.html.

Removing the =bordeaux= substitute server made things run as
expected. Gonna just keep doing that until things're resolved.

Thanks for a ton for reaching out with some help; /very/ much appreciated.