Hi,
I've tried to determine why a workaround in the jami-service-type is
required in the 'stop' slot to avoid failures in 'herd restart jami',
and haven't quite found the culprit, but it appears to me that:
1. waipid is only called in one place in Shepherd, which is in the
handle-SIGCHLD procedure in (shepherd service), which does not
specifically wait for an exact PID but rather does:
(waitpid* WAIT_ANY WNOHANG), which is waitpid with some special handling
in the case a system-error exception is thrown with an ECHILD or EINTR
error number.
This doesn't strike me as a strong guarantee that waitpid occurs when
stop is called, because:
1. It requires to be installed in the signal handlers for each
processes, with something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(unless %sigchld-handler-installed?
(sigaction SIGCHLD handle-SIGCHLD SA_NOCLDSTOP)
(set! %sigchld-handler-installed? #t))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Done for fork+exec-command and make-inetd-forkexec-constructor, but not
for make-forkexec-constructor/container, AFAICT;
2. it has the WNOHANG flag, which means the stop simply does a kill the
the signal handling weakly (because of WNOHANG) waits on it, which means
the start may begin before the process was actually completely
terminated.
Here's a small reproducer to apply on our code base:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
modified gnu/services/telephony.scm
@@ -685,13 +685,7 @@ (define (archive-name->username archive)
;; Finally, return the PID of the daemon process.
daemon-pid))
- (stop
- #~(lambda (pid . args)
- (kill pid SIGKILL)
- ;; Wait for the process to exit; this prevents overlapping
- ;; processes when issuing 'herd restart'.
- (waitpid pid)
- #f))))))))
+ (stop #~(make-kill-destructor))))))))
(define jami-service-type
(service-type
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Then run 'make check-system TESTS=jami-provisioning' to see new
failures, or if you want to investigate manually the system:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ./pre-inst-env guix system vm --no-grafts --no-offload --no-graphic \
-e '(@@ (gnu tests telephony) %jami-os-provisioning)'
$ /gnu/store/rxi7c14hga62qslb0sr6nac9qnkxr0nn-run-vm.sh -m 1G -smp 4 \
-nic user,model=virtio-net-pci,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22
# Connect to the QEMU VM:
$ ssh root@localhost -p10022
root@jami ~# herd restart jami
Service jami has been stopped.
herd: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'jami':
dbus "method failed with error" "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" ("Message
recipient disconnected from message bus without replying")
root@jami ~# herd status jami
Status of jami:
It is stopped.
It is enabled.
Provides (jami).
Requires (jami-dbus-session).
Conflicts with ().
Will be respawned.
root@jami ~# pgrep jami
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thanks,
Maxim
