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offloading requires guile-readline on the remote system |
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Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:48:19 +0100 |
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Hello!
After reconfiguring a remote machine on latest 'master' (post recent
core-updates merge), I found that offloading to it would just "hang".
After some debugging I found that `guile --listen` failed to import
(ice-9 readline). Installing guile-readline for the offload user did
the trick.
It would be great to make Guile fail gracefully and print a message
about readline being unavailable instead of just looping endlessly. Or
at the very least document the requirement.
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Re: bug#30522: offloading requires guile-readline on the remote system |
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Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:11:47 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Marius,
>
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> After reconfiguring a remote machine on latest 'master' (post recent
>> core-updates merge), I found that offloading to it would just "hang".
>>
>> After some debugging I found that `guile --listen` failed to import
>> (ice-9 readline). Installing guile-readline for the offload user did
>> the trick.
>
> Could it be that ~/.guile on that machine imports (ice-9 readline)?
> (On GuixSD the default ~/.guile used to import it unconditionally.)
Ah, good catch! This was using the default .guile from before
2ba2c98d8aa695cce608313833a36c61b0fb3428. I have verified that copying
the new .guile from /etc/skel works even without guile-readline
installed.
It would still be good with a better failure mode, but I'll file this
under "pebkac" for now.
Thanks!
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