GNU bug report logs - #74912
Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login

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Message #40 received at 74912 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> friendly-machines.com>
Cc: Jake <jforst.mailman <at> gmail.com>, 74912 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>, Daniel Littlewood <dan <at> danielittlewood.xyz>
Subject: Re: bug#74912: Shepherd: Growing number of user shepherds when
 relogging
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:08:04 +0200

Hi Danny and all,

Following reports by Daniel Littlewood, who talked about involuntarily
running a second shepherd instance shadowing the previous one (this time
not in a Guix Home context), I realized shepherd itself could avoid this
entirely.

So shepherd will now refuse to start when it determines that an instance
is already listening on its socket:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/commit/?id=787d5a33aea061b5052faa0863c96be722440ce3

Feedback welcome!

Ludo’.

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