bug#55358: docker containers stopped when doing guix install or guix shell

[Remco van 't Veer]

2022/07/12 09:48, Maxim Cournoyer:

> Hi,
>
> Remco van 't Veer <remco@remworks.net> writes:
>
>> On a Guix system host, some running docker containers are stopped when
>> doing guix install or other guix operations like shell.  I noticed this
>> happing to mysql and postgres containers but an elasticsearch container
>> just keeps running.
>>
>> Here's an example session:
>>
>>   $ docker ps
>>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
>> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>>   $ docker run -d postgres:10.10
>>   ..
>>   2b52ee072b1f5584cae597afb033cdcc0e560bbe9145b17b41502c204034e60b
>>   $ docker ps
>>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
>> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>>   2b52ee072b1f  postgres:10.10  "docker-entrypoint.s…"  2 seconds ago   Up 1 
>> seconds  5432/tcp  blah_blah
>>   $ guix shell xeyes -- xeyes
>>   substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
>>   0.0 MB will be downloaded
>>    xeyes-1.1.2  11KiB                                                        
>>                    613KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
>>   The following derivation will be built:
>>     /gnu/store/xc002hxl4g8mskqmpm0grsk8s45m91gz-profile.drv
>>
>>   applying 4 grafts for xeyes-1.1.2 ...
>>   building CA certificate bundle...
>>   listing Emacs sub-directories...
>>   building fonts directory...
>>   building directory of Info manuals...
>>   building profile with 1 package...
>>   $ docker ps
>>   CONTAINER ID  IMAGE           COMMAND                  CREATED         
>> STATUS        PORTS     NAMES
>>   $ exit
>>
>> First we see no docker containers are running, then we start postgres-10
>> from docker hub, we see its container is running, then we do something
>> using guix-shell on an application *not already available on this
>> system*, and now the container died.  This does not work the second time
>> when the "derivation" is already "built".
>
> Are you still able to reproduce this using the new version of docker
> packaged in Guix?

Yes, same problem after a guix pull and guix system reconfigure just now.

  $ guix describe
  Generation 72 Jul 12 2022 16:11:38    (current)
    guix 9173cb5
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 9173cb522ddc4f31f21948cee3fb214fd67ef616

Cheers,
Remco