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Confusing spinner artefacts

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>
To: Bug Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: (Significantly) negative number of packages in profile
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:28:57 +0100

Guix,

 λ ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix package -i w3m --fallback
 The following package will be installed:
    w3m	0.5.3+git20180125 \
    /gnu/store/142jvbxhbi1i93g07p01czawbgx0cf1r-w3m-0.5.3+git20180125

 The following derivations will be built:
    /gnu/store/pr0bmfzzf4cs6zrmdk4h51kp9d79f4hh-profile.drv
    /gnu/store/x3cjs296jg3gvdf9qz1ql4fwxrwdwi25-xdg-mime-database.drv
 building 
 /gnu/store/x3cjs296jg3gvdf9qz1ql4fwxrwdwi25-xdg-mime-database.drv...
 building 
 /gnu/store/pr0bmfzzf4cs6zrmdk4h51kp9d79f4hh-profile.drv...
 -119 packages in profile
 ^^^^

I'm sure I have more packages installed than that.

 λ ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix describe
 Git checkout:
   repository: /home/nckx/guix
   branch: master
   commit: eff8e0b4d9d4b818150f64e151227e03fdcb5aab

Kind regards,

T G-R

---------- dump ----------

λ ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix package -l    
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Generation 102	Oct 24 2018 03:08:40
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Generation 103	Oct 24 2018 04:11:57
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Generation 104	Oct 24 2018 05:08:13
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- icecat	60.2.0-gnu1	out 
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Generation 106	Oct 25 2018 17:55:22
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Generation 107	Oct 26 2018 00:47:22
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Generation 108	Oct 26 2018 18:02:31
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Generation 109	Oct 31 2018 23:45:34
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Generation 110	Nov 11 2018 01:45:22
+ encfs	1.9.5	out 
/gnu/store/dbdcnja43iyfmfz5hgvq5n824x3x72kp-encfs-1.9.5

Generation 111	Nov 14 2018 20:12:00
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/gnu/store/ybim7azfyjf2afwz194y2hfx5a3j4mb5-ntfs-3g-2017.3.23

Generation 112	Nov 15 2018 05:50:21
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- icecat	60.2.0-gnu1	out 
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Generation 113	Nov 16 2018 22:48:03
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/gnu/store/lmdy7vgrjxk06gmc4im43yl295cz8jr2-oath-toolkit-2.6.2

Generation 114	Nov 19 2018 23:15:23
+ dmidecode	3.2	out 
/gnu/store/2rgdx676sczbwfml95sj2lkkx0ln6vrm-dmidecode-3.2

Generation 115	Nov 21 2018 14:48:54
+ youtube-dl	2018.11.07	out 
/gnu/store/n99k6vw2d5al5g1a9gqg314pcnpvq00a-youtube-dl-2018.11.07
- youtube-dl	2018.09.08	out 
/gnu/store/k7w8gkdghzs4xzz80iwm376hqjfsgbfz-youtube-dl-2018.09.08

Generation 116	Nov 22 2018 22:34:53
- mame	0.200	out 
/gnu/store/03qc0fwx27rb0zmzf34l9xwgmpd4i570-mame-0.200

Generation 117	Nov 22 2018 23:59:52	(current)
+ w3m	0.5.3+git20180125	out 
/gnu/store/142jvbxhbi1i93g07p01czawbgx0cf1r-w3m-0.5.3+git20180125

Message #10 received at 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>
To: 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33470: Confusing spinner artefacts
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:30:47 +0100

Heh,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
>  -119 packages in profile
>  ^^^^
>
> I'm sure I have more packages installed than that.

Not much later, it clicked:

 λ ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix ...
 building /gnu/store/eee...-profile.drv...
 |119 packages in profile
 λ

I'd just got lucky spinning the Wheel of Guix.

So this bug isn't as interesting as I thought, but it's ugly and a 
little annoying.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Message #13 received at 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr
Cc: 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33470: Confusing spinner artefacts
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 11:28:22 +0100

Hello Tobias,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr> ezt
írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 23., P, 7:43):
>
> Heh,
>
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> >  -119 packages in profile
> >  ^^^^
> >
> > I'm sure I have more packages installed than that.
>
> Not much later, it clicked:
>
>   λ ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix ...
>   building /gnu/store/eee...-profile.drv...
>   |119 packages in profile
>   λ
>
> I'd just got lucky spinning the Wheel of Guix.
>
> So this bug isn't as interesting as I thought, but it's ugly and a
> little annoying.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R
>
>
>

I feel that simply inserting some whitespace between the spinner and
the text would make this less problematic.
WDYT?

Do you have any better suggestion?

Best regards,
g_bor

Message #16 received at 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <somebody <at> not-sent-or-endorsed-by.tobias.gr>
To: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33470: Confusing spinner artefacts
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:00:42 +0100

Gábor,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 23., P, 
> 7:43):
>>   -119 packages in profile
>>   |119 packages in profile

[...]

> I feel that simply inserting some whitespace between the spinner 
> and
> the text would make this less problematic.
> WDYT?

That would kill the ‘-119’ red herring but it's still ugly.

> Do you have any better suggestion?

I'd expect such droppings not to happen at all.

I regret that I haven't had time to look at the ‘new’ 
pretty-printing code (port?) yet, but it should be possible to 
clear the spinner before a new line. If that's much harder than it 
ought to be, our red herring's more of a red flag.

>> ugly and a little annoying,

T G-R

Message #19 received at 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 34249 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#34249] [PATCH] guix package: Avoid spinner at end of output.
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:46:03 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Hi Christopher,
>> diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
>> index a633d2ee6d..4db0e72e9b 100644
>> --- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
>> +++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
>> @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ hooks\" run when building the profile."
>>                 (switch-symlinks profile (basename name))
>>                 (unless (string=? profile %current-profile)
>>                   (register-gc-root store name))
>> +               (display "\r") ; erase the spinner
>
> In order to actually erase it, might want to do (display "\r\x1b[K") instead.

And to do that, you can use (erase-current-line port).

Though actually I think this should be done in ‘print-build-event’ in
(guix status).  Probably something like the patch below, but I haven’t
been able to quickly reproduce the initial problem.

Could you give it a spin (ah ha!) and report back?

If it doesn’t solve the issue, we should strace the thing to see why it
keeps spinning after everything is “done” basically.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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diff --git a/guix/status.scm b/guix/status.scm
index e3375816c5..7a330525b0 100644
--- a/guix/status.scm
+++ b/guix/status.scm
@@ -465,8 +465,14 @@ addition to build events."
             (_
              (spin! port))))))
 
-  (unless print-log?
-    (display "\r" port))                          ;erase the spinner
+  (define erase-current-line*
+    (if (isatty?* port)
+        (lambda (port)
+          (erase-current-line port)
+          (force-output port))
+        (const #t)))
+
+  (erase-current-line* port)                      ;clear the spinner
   (match event
     (('build-started drv . _)
      (let ((properties (derivation-properties

Message #24 received at 33470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34249-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 33470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#34249] [PATCH] guix package: Avoid spinner at end of output.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:16:23 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:
>
>> Hi Christopher,
>>> diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
>>> index a633d2ee6d..4db0e72e9b 100644
>>> --- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
>>> +++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
>>> @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ hooks\" run when building the profile."
>>>                 (switch-symlinks profile (basename name))
>>>                 (unless (string=? profile %current-profile)
>>>                   (register-gc-root store name))
>>> +               (display "\r") ; erase the spinner
>>
>> In order to actually erase it, might want to do (display "\r\x1b[K") instead.
>
> And to do that, you can use (erase-current-line port).
>
> Though actually I think this should be done in ‘print-build-event’ in
> (guix status).  Probably something like the patch below, but I haven’t
> been able to quickly reproduce the initial problem.
>
> Could you give it a spin (ah ha!) and report back?
>
> If it doesn’t solve the issue, we should strace the thing to see why it
> keeps spinning after everything is “done” basically.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> diff --git a/guix/status.scm b/guix/status.scm
> index e3375816c5..7a330525b0 100644
> --- a/guix/status.scm
> +++ b/guix/status.scm
> @@ -465,8 +465,14 @@ addition to build events."
>              (_
>               (spin! port))))))
>
> -  (unless print-log?
> -    (display "\r" port))                          ;erase the spinner
> +  (define erase-current-line*
> +    (if (isatty?* port)
> +        (lambda (port)
> +          (erase-current-line port)
> +          (force-output port))
> +        (const #t)))
> +
> +  (erase-current-line* port)                      ;clear the spinner
>    (match event
>      (('build-started drv . _)
>       (let ((properties (derivation-properties

I've tried out the change you pushed here [1], and it looks good to me
:) I can't see anything odd in the output now.

1: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7473bce207af846312d5167a398f5f20bbf3e896

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Message #27 received at 33470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 34249-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 33470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34249: [PATCH] guix package: Avoid spinner at end of output.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 15:32:09 +0100

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:

> I've tried out the change you pushed here [1], and it looks good to me
> :) I can't see anything odd in the output now.
>
> 1: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7473bce207af846312d5167a398f5f20bbf3e896

With this change I see that there are now two empty lines between
“downloading” lines.  The updating line flickers, too.

I wonder if maybe too much is deleted.  I can’t give specifics, but it
did seem a little weird when I observed the output on my i686 machine.

--
Ricardo

Message #30 received at 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 33470-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 34249-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 33470 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33470: bug#34249: [PATCH] guix package: Avoid spinner at end
 of output.
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:09:25 +0100

Hi!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> I've tried out the change you pushed here [1], and it looks good to me
>> :) I can't see anything odd in the output now.
>>
>> 1: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=7473bce207af846312d5167a398f5f20bbf3e896
>
> With this change I see that there are now two empty lines between
> “downloading” lines.  The updating line flickers, too.
>
> I wonder if maybe too much is deleted.  I can’t give specifics, but it
> did seem a little weird when I observed the output on my i686 machine.

Indeed, I noticed it too.  I believe that
024d5275c5cd72c0121b4f70d64c63f859a68f17 fixes it.

Let me know!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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