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Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: dannym <at> friendly-machines.com
Subject: bug#76998: closed (Re: bug#76998: Guix Home leaves user shepherd
 on logout, starts new instance on login)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 17:05:07 +0000

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Your bug report

#76998: Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 76998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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>, 76998-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Daniel Littlewood <dan <at> danielittlewood.xyz>
Subject: Re: bug#76998: Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new
 instance on login
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 18:06:11 +0200

Hi,

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

> 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

This commit is in 1.0.4.  Closing!

Ludo’.

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From: dannym <at> friendly-machines.com
To: Bug Guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: user shepherd stays around with some zombies
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:36 +0100

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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