Subject: bug#56519: Shepherd non-deterministically fails to load the "guix-daemon" service after the "user-processes" service has been started

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:56:00 +0200

Hi Markus,

Markus Nilsson <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I checked other services that depend on "user-processes" (see the attached
> shepherd dependency graph for my system). The "mcron" service and "ntpd"
> successfully start (lines 20 and 23). This still leaves the mystery of why
> "guix-daemon" and "nscd" won't start even though "user-processes" HAS been
> started.

Could you check what /var/log/messages says for this specific
occurrence?

It will shed some light as to what services were started, in what order,
how they failed, etc.

Thanks,
Ludo’.