From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Cc: 23697@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23697: guix system reconfigure hangs, shows repl in messages
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:27:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb1m4t8w.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lh2kt12q.fsf@gnu.org> (Jan Nieuwenhuizen's message of "Sun, 05 Jun 2016 11:52:13 +0200")
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
> Then, I uncommented the /home section in drakenvlieg.scm, like so
>
> ;; Switch to GuixSD
> (file-system (device "home")
> (title 'label)
> (mount-point "/home")
> (type "ext4"))
> (file-system (device (label "Debian")) (title 'label) (mount-point "/debian") (type "ext4") (flags '(read-only)))
>
> and (without considering I had mounted /hoom and set $HOME there) ran
>
> guix system reconfigure drakenvlieg.scm
>
> which eventually printed
>
> ...
> guix system: loading new services: file-system-/home urandom-seed ntpd avahi-daemon ssh-daemon...
> shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gn...") ...).
>
> In /var/log/messages I found some clue as to why this did not return
[...]
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gn...") #).
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57 GNU Guile 2.0.11
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Copyright (C) 1995-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
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> 2016-06-01 19:59:57
> 2016-06-01 19:59:57 Enter `,help' for help.
What happens is that it failed to fsck /home (since it was already
mounted), and stupidly started a rescue REPL that you couldn’t see.
The rescue REPL is a good idea when booting the system; see for
instance:
http://bugs.gnu.org/22588
However, in the case of an upgrade, we need a way to say “no REPL
please”. Or maybe a way to make the ‘start’ method idempotent by
checking whether the thing is already mounted.
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
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2016-06-05 9:52 bug#23697: guix system reconfigure hangs, shows repl in messages Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2016-06-06 8:27 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-12-18 15:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
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