On 04/22/2017 06:16 PM, anonym wrote: > Arnaud: >> Dear Tails, >> >> I'd like to propose a little improvement to the Tails Builder VM. >> >> My use-case is that I build Tails locally on my laptop. My concern is a >> little lack of convenience: if ever I forget to close the Tails Builder >> VM (using `rake vm:halt`) after I'm done, the laptop gets stuck at >> shutdown. I can see these log messages: >> >> libvirt-guests.sh: Waiting for guest xxx to shut down, 300 seconds left >> libvirt-guests.sh: Waiting for guest xxx to shut down, 295 seconds left >> ... > Another way to work around this is to set `SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=0` in > `/etc/default/libvirt-guests`.
Yeah I'm not a big fan of that since it's a dirty shutdown. I'm already struggling enough with the builds, I don't want to add this kind of additional questions, like: "Is my build failing again because somehow my VM is corrupted because of these continuous unclean shutdowns ? Alright, just in case, let's destroy it and start all over again". Then it's two more hours waiting... Although it's a possible solution for sure, you're right to mention it. > If the fix I proposed above isn't good enough for you, I suggest you wait and > return to this issue in a few months -- there's an ongoing rework of how we > use Vagrant which moves in the direction where each build will start with a > completely fresh (first boot) builder VM, and whenever a build finishes > (success or not) the VM is immediately destroyed and undefined. So I think > your problem will just go away once this work is merged into our main > branches. Fair enough? Alright I didn't know that. This will indeed solve the problem. Be sure to include an easy way to see the logs when a build fails, and to let the VM alive so that one can log in and investigate ;) I guess this rework implies that you move `apt-cacher-ng out of the builder, right ? Do you plan to include it in another VM, or you will just remove it completely, and let people handle it by themselves ? Cheers ! Arnaud _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
