shepherd, fibers, and signals (asyncs)

2023-12-15 Thread Attila Lendvai
dear Guix, context: Shepherd stops responding during "guix system reconfigure" https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67538 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65178 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67230 i've added a ton of logging and asserts in my fork: https://codeberg.org/attila-lendvai-patches/shepherd which re

Re: bug#67790: New signing key

2023-12-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 06:06:26AM +, John Kehayias wrote: > I suppose I should have been more specific than "something bad" :) I > merely meant this wasn't an actual security issue of losing control of > a private key, but merely moving to a new one for other reasons. The old key "expired" la

Re: shepherd: hardening error handling

2023-12-15 Thread Attila Lendvai
while i found this bug: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67839 i was reading the discussion under its probable root cause: https://github.com/wingo/fibers/issues/29 and it suggests that Guile before 3.0.5 had important bugs WRT fluids, which are relied upon in shepherd. maybe Guile 2.2 can not be u

Re: xwayland security updates, to mesa- or core-updates or ?

2023-12-15 Thread Kaelyn
On Thursday, December 14th, 2023 at 10:21 PM, John Kehayias wrote: > > Hi Guix, > > In light of (more) CVEs in xwayland, see > https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2023-December/003435.html, > > with already pending security updates, see > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67136, I would like