services: Create /var/run/utmpx upon activation.

This fixes a bug whereby /var/run/utmpx would never be created, and thus
accounting information would be missing.

* gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Create /var/run/utmpx.
* gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["utmpx entry"]: New test.
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Ludovic Courtès 2017-01-19 23:42:20 +01:00
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2 changed files with 26 additions and 3 deletions

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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016 Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@ -340,6 +340,11 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
(activate-/bin/sh
(string-append #$(canonical-package bash) "/bin/sh"))
;; Make sure the user accounting database exists. If it
;; does not exist, 'setutxent' does not create it and
;; thus there is no accounting at all.
(close-port (open-file "/var/run/utmpx" "a0"))
;; Set up /run/current-system. Among other things this
;; sets up locales, which the activation snippets
;; executed below may expect.

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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ passed a gexp denoting the marionette, and it must return gexp that is
inserted before the first test. This is used to introduce an extra
initialization step, such as entering a LUKS passphrase."
(define test
(with-imported-modules '((gnu build marionette))
(with-imported-modules '((gnu build marionette)
(guix build syscalls))
#~(begin
(use-modules (gnu build marionette)
(guix build syscalls)
(srfi srfi-1)
(srfi srfi-26)
(srfi srfi-64)
@ -176,6 +178,22 @@ info --version")
(apply throw args)))))
marionette)))
;; There should be one utmpx entry for the user logged in on tty1.
(test-equal "utmpx entry"
'(("root" "tty1" #f))
(marionette-eval
'(begin
(use-modules (guix build syscalls)
(srfi srfi-1))
(filter-map (lambda (entry)
(and (equal? (login-type USER_PROCESS)
(utmpx-login-type entry))
(list (utmpx-user entry) (utmpx-line entry)
(utmpx-host entry))))
(utmpx-entries)))
marionette))
(test-assert "host name resolution"
(match (marionette-eval
'(begin