[debbugs-tracker] bug#26008: closed ( ‘guix offload test’ provides insufficient details upon failure)

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> > Re: guix offload, (test returned #<unspecified>)
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> > Hi Ludo',
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> > on [2017-03-06] at 10:52 Ludovic Courtès writes:
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> > > Myles English <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > >> Two hosts, setup the same as far as I can see, behave differently when
> > >> trying to offload builds, any idea how I can get more information on
> > >> what the #<unspecified> might indicate?  Looking at
> > >> guix/scripts/offload.scm:551 suggests the result is not a string.
> > >>
> > >> $ guix offload test
> > >> guix offload: testing 2 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
> > >> guix offload: 'host1.mydomain.co.uk' is running guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
> > >> guix offload: 'host2.mydomain.co.uk' is running guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
> > >> guix offload: Guix is usable on 'host1.mydomain.co.uk' (test returned 
> > >> "/gnu/store/883yjkl46dxw9mzykykmbs0yzwyxm17z-test")
> > >> guix offload: error: failed to use Guix module on 'host2.mydomain.co.uk'
> > >> (test returned #<unspecified>)
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> > > What you see here most likely means that host2 threw an exception while
> > > executing this code:
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> > >   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/offload.scm#n543
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> > > The reason could be:
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> > >   1. That the (guix …) modules could not be found in the search path
> > >      (your tests suggest this is not the case);
> > >
> > >   2. That an exception was thrown, for instance because the ‘with-store’
> > >      form failed to connect to the daemon on that machine (is the daemon
> > >      running on that machine? Is it listening on
> > >      /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket and not some other place?).
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> > Yes, that was probably the problem.  I have since updated the host
> > systems, rebooted, restarted the daemons and now it works, thanks.
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> > > We should definitely improve that and provide details about the
> > > exception, at least.
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> > Yes, I agree, because 'guix offload test' should provide useful details
> > when it fails and not just when it succeeds.
> >
> > Myles
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> Hi,
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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > on [2017-03-06] at 10:52 Ludovic Courtès writes:
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> >> Myles English <address@hidden> skribis:
> >>
> >>> Two hosts, setup the same as far as I can see, behave differently when
> >>> trying to offload builds, any idea how I can get more information on
> >>> what the #<unspecified> might indicate?  Looking at
> >>> guix/scripts/offload.scm:551 suggests the result is not a string.
> >>>
> >>> $ guix offload test
> >>> guix offload: testing 2 build machines defined in 
> >>> '/etc/guix/machines.scm'...
> >>> guix offload: 'host1.mydomain.co.uk' is running guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
> >>> guix offload: 'host2.mydomain.co.uk' is running guile (GNU Guile) 2.0.13
> >>> guix offload: Guix is usable on 'host1.mydomain.co.uk' (test returned 
> >>> "/gnu/store/883yjkl46dxw9mzykykmbs0yzwyxm17z-test")
> >>> guix offload: error: failed to use Guix module on 'host2.mydomain.co.uk'
> >>> (test returned #<unspecified>)
> >>
> >> What you see here most likely means that host2 threw an exception while
> >> executing this code:
> >>
> >>   
> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/scripts/offload.scm#n543
> >>
> >> The reason could be:
> >>
> >>   1. That the (guix …) modules could not be found in the search path
> >>      (your tests suggest this is not the case);
> >>
> >>   2. That an exception was thrown, for instance because the ‘with-store’
> >>      form failed to connect to the daemon on that machine (is the daemon
> >>      running on that machine? Is it listening on
> >>      /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket and not some other place?).
> >
> > Yes, that was probably the problem.  I have since updated the host
> > systems, rebooted, restarted the daemons and now it works, thanks.
> >
> >> We should definitely improve that and provide details about the
> >> exception, at least.
> >
> > Yes, I agree, because 'guix offload test' should provide useful details
> > when it fails and not just when it succeeds.
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> Commit 4eb0f9ae05a9bf20fb91c49b39bebc687265c5e5 improves that.
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> Ludo’.
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