GNU bug report logs - #64008
shepherd respawns a service even when it's disabled

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>

Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

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From: Attila Lendvai <attila <at> lendvai.name>
To: 64008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64008: shepherd respawns a service even when it's disabled
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:01:24 +0000

the issue:

i'm in a situation where my service quits after a few seconds of CPU usage (i.e. the default-respawn-limit is not triggered). therefore shepherd keeps restarting it, practically in a busy loop.

suggested solution:

maybe respawn-service should check for the disabled state, so that the admin can intervene by `herd disable myservice`.

a longer term solution could be to add a respawn-delay field for <service>, and default it to something non-zero.

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