Re: watchdog triggered auto-rollback

[Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>]

> > i'm afraid that's not the case currently:
> > 
> > %guile-static-stripped crashes with a sigsegv (i.e. the guile used in the initrd (?))
> > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71211
> 
>
> Interesting. Is this a recent bug? When I was trying to bring up
> Guix on the VisionFive 2 I was being dropped into a Guile REPL when
> the initrd failed to find the root partition.


well, the reproducer "works" on a recent x86_64, but i originally noticed this long ago (maybe a year even). back then i investigated an early crash in the boot, and reached %GUILE-STATIC-STRIPPED, and made a TODO note to further investigate. then i forgot most of what happened, and recently i opened a bug report based on my note.

since then EXPRESSION->INITRD may have changed, because it now uses %GUILE-STATIC-INITRD. but it's created with the same MAKE-GUILE-STATIC-STRIPPED that produces the faulty %GUILE-STATIC-STRIPPED, so...

in short: the reproducer crashes both %GUILE-STATIC-STRIPPED and %GUILE-STATIC-INITRD on x86_64, and i believe that it crashes the same in the early phase of the boot when it tries to enter the debugger.

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