Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 at 09:28, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix > <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote: > >> Philip Kaludercic <phil...@posteo.net> writes: >> >>> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: >>> ERROR: >>> 1. &http-get-error: >>> uri: #<<uri> scheme: https userinfo: #f host: "ci.guix.gnu.org" port: >>> #f path: "/nar/lzip/i4c6yd0n7yhw2qi5217z62zb9n023dk7-automake-1.16.5" >>> query: #f fragment: #f> >>> code: 504 >>> reason: "Gateway Time-out" >> >> It looks like you have connectivity issues with ci.guix.gnu.org. You >> might want to retry, or enable other mirrors for substitutes instead, >> since ci.guix.gnu.org blocks some territories (not because of Guix >> policy, but rather because of where the server is hosted). > > Well, it’s weird that many people have often connectivity issues with > ci.guix.gnu.org. I mean, yes a retry usually makes it pass but as > reported in this thread: > > collection of “guix pull“ bug reports > Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> > Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:17:20 +0200 > id:86jztl20of....@gmail.com > https://yhetil.org/guix/86jztl20of....@gmail.com > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2023-08 > > all these failures with “guix pull“ look like the symptom with something > unexpected on server side. Although obviously we can tweak on client > side for some automatic retries. > > These transient failures are very hard to tackle because they are > transient. :-)
Is it not possible to detect connectivity issues and print a regular error message, instead of instructing the user to report a bug? > > Cheers, > simon
