Hi Lars, Lars Rustand <rustand.l...@gmail.com> writes:
> Like the title says, if you add any VLAN in a > static-networking-service-type it seems like the whole shepherd daemon > freezes up and anything that depends on it stops responding. > Additionally the networking does not get fully configured either. > > After configuring a VLAN `herd status`, `herd restart networking` and > any other herd command hangs forever with no output. Even reboot is not > working. The only remedy is to restart the system using the power > button, but even after the restart the networking service still fails to > start. > > VLANs are seemingly created, but no addresses are created. > > Steps to reproduce: > > 1. Add a static network with a VLAN to your system config (see below for > minimal example) > 2. Reconfigure your system > 3. Restart the networking service with `sudo herd restart networking` > 4. Observe that herd does not finish > 5. Try to run `herd status`, `guix system reconfigure`, or `sudo reboot`. > 6. Observe that none of the commands seem to have any effect, and that > they hang indefinitely with no output > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (service static-networking-service-type > (list (static-networking > (links > (list (network-link > (name "myvlan") > (type 'vlan) > (arguments '((id . 3) > (link . "eth0")))))) > (addresses > (list (network-address > (device "myvlan@eth0") > (value "192.168.0.2/24"))))))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I see, Could you please, replace the device name to "myvlan" and not "myvlan@eth0" in the network-address. Even though ip link (iproute2) shows you 'myvlan@eth0' this is not an actual name of the interfaces. > Alternatively here are the reproduction steps using VM: > > 1. Build a qcow2 image, make sure there is enough space to reconfigure > the system. Use --save-provenance so you have the config inside the > vm so you can reconfigure later. > `guix system image --image-type=qcow2 --image-size=30G --save-provenance > minimal.scm` > 2. Copy the qcow image to a writable directory. > 3. Start up the vm. > ``` > sudo qemu-system-x86_64 \ > -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci \ > -enable-kvm -m 2048 \ > -device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \ > -drive > if=none,file=1a7wi5mgcy3wrsx6pcnag6qjbb87djwl-image.qcow2,id=myhd > ``` > 4. Edit /run/current-system/configuration.scm and uncomment the static > networking. > 5. Reconfigure the system. > 6. Try to restart the networking service. `herd restart networking` > 7. The command will hang infinitely. Cancel it. > 8. Check the network interfaces. The VLAN interface will have been > created, but it will not have any address. > 9. The aforementioned commands will all be unresponsive now. > 10. If you reboot your VM you will see that the networking service is > failed at startup, and if you try to restart the service you will get > an error: #<&netlink-response-error errno: 17> > We need to improve our error messaging. This means that the interface is exist. -- Alexey
