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Package: guix; Reported by: Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN>; dated Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:50:02 UTC; Maintainer for guix is bug-guix@HIDDEN.

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Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@HIDDEN> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@HIDDEN> writes:
>
>> Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN> skribis:
>>
>>> The result was this:
>>>
>>> $ sudo herd restart nginx
>>> Service nginx is not running.
>>> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
>>> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error
>>> [program:
>>> \"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\"
>>> arguments: (\"-c\"
>>> \"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \"-p\"
>>> \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f]
>>> 147e000>")=E2=80=99.
>
> [=E2=80=A6]
>
>>> That error message could also be clearer about what=E2=80=99s going on.=
 At any
>>> rate, after I killed the nginx process, =E2=80=9Cherd start nginx=E2=80=
=9D worked fine.
>>
>> I agree that we could and should improve the error message.
>
> On the subject of this error message, why was the &invoke-error
> condition serialized to a string before apparently being embedded within
> another exception?

That serialization comes from the Shepherd when it talks to its clients
(see =E2=80=98write-reply=E2=80=99 in (shepherd comm)).

Normally service methods should write a human-readable message instead
of throwing an exception, but when that happens, shepherd serializes
those things so that one can at least diagnose the problem.

In this case we could use =E2=80=98report-invoke-error=E2=80=99 from (guix =
build utils)
on =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.




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Hello,

Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@HIDDEN> writes:

> Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN> skribis:
>
>> The result was this:
>>
>> $ sudo herd restart nginx
>> Service nginx is not running.
>> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
>> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error
>> [program:
>> \"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\"
>> arguments: (\"-c\"
>> \"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \"-p\"
>> \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f]
>> 147e000>")=E2=80=99.

[=E2=80=A6]

>> That error message could also be clearer about what=E2=80=99s going on. =
At any
>> rate, after I killed the nginx process, =E2=80=9Cherd start nginx=E2=80=
=9D worked fine.
>
> I agree that we could and should improve the error message.

On the subject of this error message, why was the &invoke-error
condition serialized to a string before apparently being embedded within
another exception?  In other words, why did it print:

  Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error [program: \=
"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\" argu=
ments: (\"-c\" \"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \=
"-p\" \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 1=
47e000>")=E2=80=99.

instead of something closer to:

  Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#<condition &invoke-error [program: "/=
gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx" argumen=
ts: ("-c" "/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf" "-p" "/v=
ar/run/nginx") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 147e000>)=E2=
=80=99.

We may want to go further in this specific case to make a user-friendly
error message, but in the more general case of printing arbitrary
exceptions, eliminating that second layer of string serialization would
help make the error reports a bit nicer to read.

What do you think?

      Mark




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Hi,

Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN> skribis:

>>> $ sudo herd restart nginx
>>> Service nginx is not running.
>>> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
>>> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error [program:=
 \"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\" ar=
guments: (\"-c\" \"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\"=
 \"-p\" \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f]=
 147e000>")=E2=80=99.
>>=20
>> Do you use an =E2=80=9Copaque=E2=80=9D nginx config file, or do you use =
<nginx-...>
>> records?
>
> The latter I think:
>
>      (service nginx-service-type
>               (nginx-configuration
>                (extra-content =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D)))

That=E2=80=99s actually the non-opaque variant, so shepherd should read the=
 PID
file and it shouldn=E2=80=99t get it wrong.  Not sure what happened.

If you can reproduce it, it would be great to gather the output of =E2=80=
=9Cherd
status nginx=E2=80=9D at the time shepherd is confused.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.




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> On 20. Jul 2019, at 00:49, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@HIDDEN> wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN> skribis:
>=20
>> Not sure who=E2=80=99s at fault here, but without doing anything =
weird,
>> I ended up with a system where shepherd thought that nginx was
>> stopped, while there was still an nginx process around. I
>> certainly didn=E2=80=99t start it by hand.
>=20
> Did you try =E2=80=9Cherd status nginx=E2=80=9D to see shepherd=E2=80=99=
s notion of the nginx
> process?

Not at the time, no.

>=20
>> The result was this:
>>=20
>> $ sudo herd restart nginx
>> Service nginx is not running.
>> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
>> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error =
[program: =
\"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\" =
arguments: (\"-c\" =
\"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \"-p\" =
\"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] =
147e000>")=E2=80=99.
>=20
> Do you use an =E2=80=9Copaque=E2=80=9D nginx config file, or do you =
use <nginx-...>
> records?

The latter I think:

     (service nginx-service-type
              (nginx-configuration
               (extra-content =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D)))





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Subject: Re: bug#36731: shepherd lost track of nginx
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Hello,

Robert Vollmert <rob@HIDDEN> skribis:

> Not sure who=E2=80=99s at fault here, but without doing anything weird,
> I ended up with a system where shepherd thought that nginx was
> stopped, while there was still an nginx process around. I
> certainly didn=E2=80=99t start it by hand.

Did you try =E2=80=9Cherd status nginx=E2=80=9D to see shepherd=E2=80=99s n=
otion of the nginx
process?

> The result was this:
>
> $ sudo herd restart nginx
> Service nginx is not running.
> herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error [program: \=
"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\" argu=
ments: (\"-c\" \"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \=
"-p\" \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 1=
47e000>")=E2=80=99.

Do you use an =E2=80=9Copaque=E2=80=9D nginx config file, or do you use <ng=
inx-...>
records?

In the former case, the =E2=80=98start=E2=80=99 method won=E2=80=99t attemp=
t to read the PID
file (because it cannot be sure it=E2=80=99ll exist), so it=E2=80=99s effec=
tively unable
to track the process.  See comment in =E2=80=98nginx-shepherd-service=E2=80=
=99.

> That error message could also be clearer about what=E2=80=99s going on. A=
t any
> rate, after I killed the nginx process, =E2=80=9Cherd start nginx=E2=80=
=9D worked fine.

I agree that we could and should improve the error message.  Redirecting
nginx=E2=80=99s stderr so that shepherd clients can see it would be best.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.




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Not sure who=E2=80=99s at fault here, but without doing anything weird,
I ended up with a system where shepherd thought that nginx was
stopped, while there was still an nginx process around. I
certainly didn=E2=80=99t start it by hand.

The result was this:

$ sudo herd restart nginx
Service nginx is not running.
herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'nginx':
Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `("#<condition &invoke-error [program: =
\"/gnu/store/mlg0xfbiq03s812rm3v7mrlhyngas4xp-nginx-1.17.1/sbin/nginx\" =
arguments: (\"-c\" =
\"/gnu/store/r6gl9n7pwf4npiri05qxr40vdihdm2yy-nginx.conf\" \"-p\" =
\"/var/run/nginx\") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] =
147e000>")=E2=80=99.

That error message could also be clearer about what=E2=80=99s going on. =
At any
rate, after I killed the nginx process, =E2=80=9Cherd start nginx=E2=80=9D=
 worked fine.

I should add that nginx was still doing its job fine before I killed it.





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