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authorMathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>2020-02-10 14:43:05 +0100
committerMathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>2020-02-12 10:49:48 +0100
commit1d02052067e04d7dd8fd1ec17557ca02a30b9bcf (patch)
treef6b5ce62ca86769160084532832d2dd0e962ba04 /gnu/installer
parentcd820bf78843aeaebf5e3cf6a4d3a43f5531d267 (diff)
installer: Remove the cow-store overlay after system installation.
Fixes <https://issues.guix.info/issue/39217>. Fixes <https://issues.guix.info/issue/38447>. * gnu/installer/final.scm (umount-cow-store): New procedure ..., (install-system): ... used here, to remove the store overlay so that the target device is not seen as busy during further umount calls.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/installer')
-rw-r--r--gnu/installer/final.scm27
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/installer/final.scm b/gnu/installer/final.scm
index 1b85900912..8c2185e36f 100644
--- a/gnu/installer/final.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer/final.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2018 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2018, 2020 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#:use-module (gnu installer utils)
#:use-module (gnu installer user)
#:use-module (gnu services herd)
+ #:use-module (guix build syscalls)
#:use-module (guix build utils)
#:use-module (gnu build accounts)
#:use-module ((gnu system shadow) #:prefix sys:)
@@ -96,6 +97,15 @@ USERS."
(write-passwd password (string-append etc "/passwd"))
(write-shadow shadow (string-append etc "/shadow")))
+(define (umount-cow-store)
+ "Remove the store overlay and the bind-mount on /tmp created by the
+cow-store service."
+ (let ((tmp-dir "/remove"))
+ (mkdir-p tmp-dir)
+ (mount (%store-directory) tmp-dir "" MS_MOVE)
+ (umount tmp-dir)
+ (umount "/tmp")))
+
(define* (install-system locale #:key (users '()))
"Create /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd on the installation target for USERS.
Start COW-STORE service on target directory and launch guix install command in
@@ -114,5 +124,16 @@ or #f. Return #t on success and #f on failure."
;; passwords that we've put in there.
(create-user-database users (%installer-target-dir))
- (start-service 'cow-store (list (%installer-target-dir)))
- (run-shell-command install-command #:locale locale)))
+ (dynamic-wind
+ (lambda ()
+ (start-service 'cow-store (list (%installer-target-dir))))
+ (lambda ()
+ (run-shell-command install-command #:locale locale))
+ (lambda ()
+ (stop-service 'cow-store)
+ ;; Remove the store overlay created at cow-store service start.
+ ;; Failing to do that will result in further umount calls to fail
+ ;; because the target device is seen as busy. See:
+ ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
+ (umount-cow-store)
+ #f))))