GNU bug report logs - #76998
Guix Home leaves user shepherd on logout, starts new instance on login

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: xeji <at> cat3.de
Subject: bug#67863: closed (Re: bug#76998: Guix Home leaves user shepherd
 on logout, starts new instance on login)
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 17:05:08 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

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 67863 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

-- 
76998: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=76998
GNU Bug Tracking System
Contact help-debbugs <at> gnu.org with problems

[Message part 2 (message/rfc822, inline)]

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’.

[Message part 3 (message/rfc822, inline)]

From: xeji <at> cat3.de
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Guix Home: Multiple instances of user Shepherd created
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 23:42:04 +0100 (CET)

[Message part 4 (text/plain, inline)]

I am trying to use the awesome Guix Home Shepherd service for syncthing (home-syncthing-service-type).
 
Syncthing works fine but every time I log out of my last user session and log back in again, a new instance of the user shepherd is started (and tries to start syncthing again).
After logging out and in a few times, there are multiple user shepherd processes.
 
Suspected cause:  Apparently the user shepherd process is not killed on last logout before elogind (correctly) removes XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
So on next login, a new empty XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is created, causing a new user shepherd to be started while the old one is still running happily.
This seems to be a general issue and not particular to the syncthing home service.
 
System: Guix System on x86_64
Guix commit: ac61e9705fb8c450c6cd0c1731fbb1b909c1f944
 
--
Uli

[Message part 5 (text/html, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.