guix/gnu/installer/final.scm
Mathieu Othacehe e92723452d
installer: Install the locale before mounting the cow-store.
Fixes: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52831>.

Make sure to install the en_US.utf8 fallback locale if the selected locale is
not supported.

* gnu/installer/final.scm (install-locale): New procedure.
(install-system): Call it.
2022-01-14 14:29:19 +01:00

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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2020 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
;;; your option) any later version.
;;;
;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;;;
;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;;; along with GNU Guix. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
(define-module (gnu installer final)
#:use-module (gnu installer newt page)
#:use-module (gnu installer steps)
#: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 build install)
#:use-module (gnu build linux-container)
#:use-module ((gnu system shadow) #:prefix sys:)
#:use-module (rnrs io ports)
#:use-module (srfi srfi-1)
#:use-module (ice-9 ftw)
#:use-module (ice-9 popen)
#:use-module (ice-9 match)
#:use-module (ice-9 format)
#:use-module (ice-9 rdelim)
#:export (install-system))
(define %seed
(seed->random-state
(logxor (getpid) (car (gettimeofday)))))
(define (integer->alphanumeric-char n)
"Map N, an integer in the [0..62] range, to an alphanumeric character."
(cond ((< n 10)
(integer->char (+ (char->integer #\0) n)))
((< n 36)
(integer->char (+ (char->integer #\A) (- n 10))))
((< n 62)
(integer->char (+ (char->integer #\a) (- n 36))))
(else
(error "integer out of bounds" n))))
(define (random-string len)
"Compute a random string of size LEN where each character is alphanumeric."
(let loop ((chars '())
(len len))
(if (zero? len)
(list->string chars)
(let ((n (random 62 %seed)))
(loop (cons (integer->alphanumeric-char n) chars)
(- len 1))))))
(define (create-user-database users root)
"Create /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group under ROOT for the given
USERS."
(define etc
(string-append root "/etc"))
(define (salt)
;; "$6" gives us a SHA512 password hash; the random string must be taken
;; from the './0-9A-Za-z' alphabet (info "(libc) Passphrase Storage").
(string-append "$6$" (random-string 10)))
(define users*
(map (lambda (user)
(define root?
(string=? "root" (user-name user)))
(sys:user-account (name (user-name user))
(comment (user-real-name user))
(group "users")
(uid (if root? 0 #f))
(home-directory
(user-home-directory user))
(password (crypt (user-password user)
(salt)))
;; We need a string here, not a file-like, hence
;; this choice.
(shell
"/run/current-system/profile/bin/bash")))
users))
(define-values (group password shadow)
(user+group-databases users* sys:%base-groups
#:current-passwd '()
#:current-groups '()
#:current-shadow '()))
(mkdir-p etc)
(write-group group (string-append etc "/group"))
(write-passwd password (string-append etc "/passwd"))
(write-shadow shadow (string-append etc "/shadow")))
(define (call-with-mnt-container thunk)
"This is a variant of call-with-container. Run THUNK in a new container
process, within a separate MNT namespace. The container is not jailed so that
it can interact with the rest of the system."
(let ((pid (run-container "/" '() '(mnt) 1 thunk)))
;; Catch SIGINT and kill the container process.
(sigaction SIGINT
(lambda (signum)
(false-if-exception
(kill pid SIGKILL))))
(match (waitpid pid)
((_ . status) status))))
(define (install-locale locale)
"Install the given LOCALE or the en_US.utf8 locale as a fallback."
(let ((supported? (false-if-exception
(setlocale LC_ALL locale))))
(if supported?
(begin
(syslog "install supported locale ~a~%." locale)
(setenv "LC_ALL" locale))
(begin
;; If the selected locale is not supported, install a default UTF-8
;; locale. This is required to copy some files with UTF-8
;; characters, in the nss-certs package notably. Set LANGUAGE
;; anyways, to have translated messages if possible.
(syslog "~a locale is not supported, installating en_US.utf8 \
locale instead.~%" locale)
(setlocale LC_ALL "en_US.utf8")
(setenv "LC_ALL" "en_US.utf8")
(setenv "LANGUAGE"
(string-take locale
(or (string-index locale #\_)
(string-length locale))))))))
(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
a subshell. LOCALE must be the locale name under which that command will run,
or #f. Return #t on success and #f on failure."
(define backing-directory
;; Sub-directory used as the backing store for copy-on-write.
"/tmp/guix-inst")
(define (assert-exit x)
(primitive-exit (if x 0 1)))
(let* ((options (catch 'system-error
(lambda ()
;; If this file exists, it can provide
;; additional command-line options.
(call-with-input-file
"/tmp/installer-system-init-options"
read))
(const '())))
(install-command (append (list "guix" "system" "init"
"--fallback")
options
(list (%installer-configuration-file)
(%installer-target-dir))))
(database-dir "/var/guix/db")
(database-file (string-append database-dir "/db.sqlite"))
(saved-database (string-append database-dir "/db.save"))
(ret #f))
(mkdir-p (%installer-target-dir))
;; We want to initialize user passwords but we don't want to store them in
;; the config file since the password hashes would end up world-readable
;; in the store. Thus, create /etc/shadow & co. here such that, on the
;; first boot, the activation snippet that creates accounts will reuse the
;; passwords that we've put in there.
(create-user-database users (%installer-target-dir))
;; When the store overlay is mounted, other processes such as kmscon, udev
;; and guix-daemon may open files from the store, preventing the
;; underlying install support from being umounted. See:
;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-12/msg00161.html.
;;
;; To avoid this situation, mount the store overlay inside a container,
;; and run the installation from within that container.
(zero?
(call-with-mnt-container
(lambda ()
(dynamic-wind
(lambda ()
;; Install the locale before mounting the cow-store, otherwise
;; the loaded cow-store locale files will prevent umounting.
(install-locale locale)
;; Save the database, so that it can be restored once the
;; cow-store is umounted.
(copy-file database-file saved-database)
(mount-cow-store (%installer-target-dir) backing-directory))
(lambda ()
;; We need to drag the guix-daemon to the container MNT
;; namespace, so that it can operate on the cow-store.
(stop-service 'guix-daemon)
(start-service 'guix-daemon (list (number->string (getpid))))
(setvbuf (current-output-port) 'none)
(setvbuf (current-error-port) 'none)
;; If there are any connected clients, assume that we are running
;; installation tests. In that case, dump the standard and error
;; outputs to syslog.
(set! ret
(if (not (null? (current-clients)))
(with-output-to-file "/dev/console"
(lambda ()
(with-error-to-file "/dev/console"
(lambda ()
(run-command install-command)))))
(run-command install-command))))
(lambda ()
;; Restart guix-daemon so that it does no keep the MNT namespace
;; alive.
(restart-service 'guix-daemon)
(copy-file saved-database database-file)
;; Finally umount the cow-store and exit the container.
(unmount-cow-store (%installer-target-dir) backing-directory)
(assert-exit ret))))))))