bug#30365: Offloading sometimes hangs

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Ludo,

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> So what we have here is that the Scheme procedure ‘select’ returned
>> stdin as “ready for reading”.  How did that happen?  I believe this is
>> due to <https://bugs.gnu.org/30368>: ‘scm_i_prepare_to_wait_on_fd’
>> returns 1, so ‘select’ returns EINTR but it does so without clearing the
>> FD sets.
>
> I’ve pushed a workaround here:
>
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=8446dc5a360e3a13fecea870f86efdbd893e3905
>
> and guix-0.14.0-8.bc880f9 includes that fix.
>
> It’s been running for several hours on berlin, building a bunch of
> things notably on aarch64, and it seems to work well!

Congratulations on figuring this out!

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Ricardo

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