Hello! I have experienced many instances of Shepherd hanging through my use of Guix, though I don't have a clear record of when it first happened.
These days I have seen a few reports on the subject. With a quick search of recent bug reports, I can't find any related, only to find this thread [1] on help-guix. So I'll start a bug report here, but I don't know how to debug Shepherd and I haven't found a way to reproduce it stably. I'm not sure if Shepherd hangs at usual, but most of the time I find it already hanging is when doing a reconfiguration. The reconfiguration becomes unresponsive and it won't accept a ^C, herd actions also hang. This usually happens with home reconfiguration, but I can remember once with system reconfiguration when adding and deleting some services in the configuration file. I'm not sure how Shepherd hangs either, because in the latter case (system one) I can still see logs indicating that it's trying to respawn a process I killed manually, even though that's just a output and no processes are actually spawned. And as shown in [1], there are also cases where Shepherd hangs at some point in the halting process, usually after syslogd has been terminated but before term-tty*. (The termination message indicates that Shepherd is still functional, and no logs after that point shows that that's a real action, but because of this I can't know anything happened further either. After that I'm still able to switch ttys so I assume term-tty* are alive.) Although I don't know how they are related, I have linked my configurations below: <https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament/src/branch/trunk/dorphine-home.scm> <https://codeberg.org/hako/Testament/src/branch/trunk/dorphine-system.scm> Thanks [1]: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-07/msg00021.html> (public-inbox mirror on yhetil.org) <https://yhetil.org/guix/nzxmem4--...@tutanota.com/t/#u>
