Subject: bug#72166: Shepherd periodically goes unresponsive on one of my machines

From: "Jonathan Frederickson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:01:55 -0400

No news yet on reproduction, but I did spot something else interesting when running 'guix home switch-generation' on one of my other machines that's been having similar issues:

> SLoading /gnu/store/b7sbff937mm32lwv1a0dbh4mqhwkvpfn-shepherd.conf.
> herd: error: exception caught while executing 'load' on service 'root':
> In procedure fport_write: Input/output error
> Comparing /gnu/store/69shsgavrzkb408hvrfi4yjs26z7n112-home/profile/share/fonts and
> /gnu/store/dn7kk3d6hhmgjm89y2p3mrlwz0dgkzpy-home/profile/share/fonts... done (same)
> Evaluating on-change gexps.
> 
> On-change gexps evaluation finished.

This is another machine whose user shepherd instance is currently in this unresponsive state.