Subject: Re: bug#76998: user shepherd stays around with some zombies

From: Jake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:18:49 +1030

Is this the same as
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74912
?

Jake

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 at 5:41 am, <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. Log into the console using your regular user
> 2. Log into GUI using your regular user
> 3. Log out of GUI
> 4. Switch to logged-in console
> 5. Run "px --tree" there
> 6. Observe the following:
>
> shepherd(1)
>    accounts-daemon(1110)
>    avahi-daemon:(2443)
>      avahi-daemon:(2446)
>    bluetoothd(1026)
>    colord(25587)
>    cupsd(2440)
>    dbus-daemon(769)
>    dnsmasq(1845)
>      dnsmasq(1846)
>    earlyoom(744)
>    elogind(1024)
>    gdm(1038)
>    guix-daemon(740)
>    libvirtd(1023)
>    login(26536)
>      -bash(6739)
>    mcron(747)
>    mingetty... (5×)
>    ModemManager(1276)
>    NetworkManager(1256)
>    nginx:(797)
>      nginx:(798)
>    nscd(2177)
>    polkitd(1231)
>    postgres(852)
>      postgres:... (6×)
>    rasdaemon(796)
>    rpc.idmapd(2447)
>    rpc.mountd(2501)
>    rpc.statd(2444)
>    rpcbind(2441)
>    shepherd(6395) <--- also dannym
>      [dbus-daemon](6397)
>      [ssh-agent](6444)
>      [xdg-permission-](6411)
>      wireplumber(6399)
>    shepherd(26114) <--- dannym
>      dbus-daemon(6881)
>      pipewire(6882)
>      pipewire-pulse(6883)
>      ssh-agent(6880)
>      wireplumber(6888)
>      xdg-permission-store(7259)
>    udevd(330)
>    upowerd(1025)
>    virtlogd(742)
>    wpa_supplicant(1045)
>
> Those "[...]" with brackets mean that these processes were not reaped
> (so is defunct).
>
> What the hell?
>
> $ guix describe
> Generation 194  Mar 13 2025 19:11:33    (current)
>    guix 678b3dd
>      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>      branch: master
>      commit: 678b3dddfe442e643fe5cff7730d4f9690c3e2c2
>
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