Re: Multiple substitute servers question

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer <address@hidden> skribis:

> I had this problem again now.
>
> guix package -i emacs-dvc
> ;;; note: source file /home/maxim/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled 
> /home/maxim/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/emacs.go
> ;;; note: source file /home/maxim/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled 
> /gnu/store/nqy9m6hhnkkfwr5wyq5bac96v9s9hc9i-guix-0.12.0-9.25a4/lib/guile/2.0/site-ccache/gnu/packages/emacs.go
> ;;; note: source file /home/maxim/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled 
> /run/current-system/profile/lib/guile/2.0/site-ccache/gnu/packages/emacs.go
> ;;; note: source file /home/maxim/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled 
> /home/maxim/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/home/maxim/src/guix/gnu/packages/emacs.scm.go
> The following package will be installed:
>    emacs-dvc    trunk-1.591     
> /gnu/store/sraxmg5qz9i4338s4ks7asgy4v68dgqs-emacs-dvc-trunk-1.591
>
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 
> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 
> 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0%
> Downloading 
> https://bayfront.guixsd.org/nar/gzip/6h7ym07plwxfn4zq53ld8zfpbx3a09al-at-spi2-core-2.22.0
>  (1.1MiB installed)...
> guix substitute: error: connect: No route to host
> killing process 13896
> killing process 13896: No such process

Oh I see.  ‘guix substitute --query’ (aka. “updating list of
substitutes”) correctly ignores the faulty machine, but ‘guix substitute
--substitute’ does not.  Could you email this issue to bug-guix?

> Q1: Why did it not fallback automatically to mirror.hydra.gnu.org, which
> pings, and instead aborted (no, hung) attempting to kill an
> (inexistant?) process? :)

I think the message is referring the ‘guix substitute’ process, but that
process exited after printing “error: connect”, and thus guix-daemon had
no process left to kill.

Thanks,
Ludo’.