On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:53:22 +0100
Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:

> The 'task' means that events that led to this job starting will be
> blocked until it has stopped. Tasks are short lived jobs, whereas the
> guix-daemon is a long lived service. Including 'task' means that
> attempts to start the guix-daemon appear to hang, as upstart waits
> for it to exit.
> 
> * etc/guix-daemon.conf.in: Remove 'task'.
> ---
>  etc/guix-daemon.conf.in | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/etc/guix-daemon.conf.in b/etc/guix-daemon.conf.in
> index 09c70cde3..74706055f 100644
> --- a/etc/guix-daemon.conf.in
> +++ b/etc/guix-daemon.conf.in
> @@ -7,6 +7,4 @@ start on runlevel [2345]
>  
>  stop on runlevel [016]
>  
> -task
> -
>  exec
> @localstatedir@/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=guixbuild

I've now pushed this patch.