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bug#23194: Benign error in installation image: "stty: standard input: In


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#23194: Benign error in installation image: "stty: standard input: Input/output error"
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:10:20 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> In the installation image for GuixSD v0.10.0, I get some I/O errors on
> the terminal just before/during/after the MOTD is displayed:
>
> "stty: standard input: Input/output error"

With a patch like this, the issue vanishes:

diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index b168543..aa34aa8 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ strings or string-valued gexps."
       (let ((pid (primitive-fork)))
         (case pid
           ((0)
+           (sleep 1)
            (close-fdes 0)
            (dup2 (open-fdes #$tty O_RDONLY) 0)
            (close-fdes 1)
This hints at a race condition.

I *think* that the problem is that at the time the ‘console-font-X’
service starts and invokes ‘unicode_start’, it may be that mingetty
hasn’t opened the tty yet.

Indeed, the ‘term-ttyX’ services are considered started as soon as
mingetty is running, but there’s a chance that it’s running and has not
opened the tty yet.

I think we should use another implementation that doesn’t have this
problem (agetty?).  Given that mingetty.c is 400 lines, we might as well
do it in Scheme.

Ludo’.

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