Re: Error handling when 'guix substitute' dies

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Philip McGrath <philip@philipmcgrath.com> skribis:

> I don't know if the root cause is related, but this reminded me of
> some networking errors I sometimes get accessing substitutes. I had
> the luck (good or bad?) to get an example while building
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70065>, so I thought I'd report.
>
>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
>> ERROR:
>>   1. &http-get-error:
>>       uri: #<<uri> scheme: https userinfo: #f host: 
>> "bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net" port: #f path: 
>> "/nar/lzip/r8w68mhsvqlkvazncvfn36jcpvz404x6-chez-fmt-0.8.11.tar.gz" query: 
>> #f fragment: #f>
>>       code: 404
>>       reason: "Not Found"
>>       headers: ((server . "nginx") (date . #<date nanosecond: 0 second: 9 
>> minute: 20 hour: 6 day: 1 month: 4 year: 2024 zone-offset: 0>) (content-type 
>> application/json (charset . "utf-8")) (content-length . 35) (connection 
>> keep-alive))
>>   2. &message: 
>> "https://bordeaux-us-east-mirror.cbaines.net/nar/lzip/r8w68mhsvqlkvazncvfn36jcpvz404x6-chez-fmt-0.8.11.tar.gz:
>>  HTTP download failed: 404 (\"Not Found\")"
>> substitution of 
>> /gnu/store/r8w68mhsvqlkvazncvfn36jcpvz404x6-chez-fmt-0.8.11.tar.gz failed
>> guix build: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from #<closed: file 
>> 7f9f7deaad90>

No, that’s another problem: bordeaux.guix would delete nars before their
advertised TTL has expired.  See <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63634#4>.
Chris explained that this was solved recently I believe.

Ludo’.