bug#55358: docker containers stopped when doing guix install or guix shell

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Remco van 't Veer <remco@remworks.net> writes:

> On a Guix system host, some running docker containers are stopped when
> doing guix install or other guix operations like shell.  I noticed this
> happing to mysql and postgres containers but an elasticsearch container
> just keeps running.
>
> Here's an example session:
>
>   $ docker ps
>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>   $ docker run -d postgres:10.10
>   ..
>   2b52ee072b1f5584cae597afb033cdcc0e560bbe9145b17b41502c204034e60b
>   $ docker ps
>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>   2b52ee072b1f  postgres:10.10  "docker-entrypoint.s…"  2 seconds ago   Up 1 
> seconds  5432/tcp  blah_blah
>   $ guix shell xeyes -- xeyes
>   substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>   0.0 MB will be downloaded
>    xeyes-1.1.2  11KiB                                                         
>                   613KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
>   The following derivation will be built:
>     /gnu/store/xc002hxl4g8mskqmpm0grsk8s45m91gz-profile.drv
>
>   applying 4 grafts for xeyes-1.1.2 ...
>   building CA certificate bundle...
>   listing Emacs sub-directories...
>   building fonts directory...
>   building directory of Info manuals...
>   building profile with 1 package...
>   $ docker ps
>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>   $ exit
>
> First we see no docker containers are running, then we start postgres-10
> from docker hub, we see its container is running, then we do something
> using guix-shell on an application *not already available on this
> system*, and now the container died.  This does not work the second time
> when the "derivation" is already "built".

Are you still able to reproduce this using the new version of docker
packaged in Guix?

Thanks,

Maxim