i think i have found the root cause of this, as documented here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/67839
that issue contains patches for shepherd to reproduce it in its test suite. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “What divides libertarians from everybody else is not a belief about rights or what rights people have, because the judgments libertarians make about the state are the same as the judgments almost everyone makes about private agents. So it's not that we believe in rights that other people don't believe in, or that other people believe in rights that we don't believe in. It's that other people think the state is exempt from the moral principles that apply to non-government agents.” — Michael Huemer