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

[Remco van 't Veer]

I think I know what is causing the issue.  Both the "standard" mysql and
postgres containers use user-id 999 to run the database service (this
seems like a common practice because the redis container is configured
similarly).  That user-id is also configured as guixbuilder01 so I guess
the guix daemon is killing those when processes when it finishes doing
builds.

Does that make sense?  If so can guix daemon be fixed to be a tad more
gentile to the processes not spawned on its behalf?


2022/07/12 16:37, Remco van 't Veer:

> 2022/07/12 09:48, 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?
>
> Yes, same problem after a guix pull and guix system reconfigure just now.
>
>   $ guix describe
>   Generation 72       Jul 12 2022 16:11:38    (current)
>     guix 9173cb5
>       repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>       branch: master
>       commit: 9173cb522ddc4f31f21948cee3fb214fd67ef616
>
> Cheers,
> Remco