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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:35:15 +0200

Hi,

You wrote:

> The machine in question does not have a battery-backed RTC, so it
> loses time when it loses power, but notice the time changes once ntpd
> starts up.

So you’re hitting the Fibers bug described here:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70848

There is still no fix upstream unfortunately, but I hope we’ll get there
in time for Shepherd 1.0.

The only workaround so far is to build shepherd against
‘guile-fibers-1.1’, which is what is done in Guix on AArch64 and RISC-V
since these platforms are likely to be used with single-board computers
lacking a battery-backed RTC.

Thanks,
Ludo’.