Deadlocked path due to deadlocked download event #613
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Reference: lix-project/lix#613
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Describe the bug
On Dec 2024 Lix HEADs, it is possible to get into a state where a path is deadlocked (i.e. a .lock file is held by a nix-daemon) and if you capture all stack traces, you can see that there's a nix-daemon thread invoking a PathSubstitutionGoal destructor, waiting for a worker thread to stop and another nix-daemon thread waiting on a condition_variable to be woken up to get data from a FileTransfer.
The program is effectively deadlocked at this point as there's no thread to wake up the FileTransfer and it's likely that the destructor is waiting for the FileTransfer thread to terminate as well.
Steps To Reproduce
There's no easy recipe to reproduce, it happens randomly probably when lock contention is high.
Expected behavior
No deadlocks and graceful shutdowns.
nix --version
outputLix 2024-12-11 @
92ed9fe
.Additional context
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This issue was mentioned on Gerrit on the following CLs: