Hi Guix,
I think this has been happening for quite a long time, but I never paid
attention to it, for everything seemed to be running just fine.
When I run `guix home reconfigure`, it completes with the following message:
```
# […]
Finished updating symlinks.
SSLoading /gnu/store/zbfyaxxigns5lqyxhxzxhm92w54ns1cz-shepherd.conf.
herd: error: exception caught while executing 'load' on service 'root':
In procedure fport_write: Broken pipe
Comparing /gnu/store/2sr90smj33k686394krjx1klhlpipd7z-home/profile/share/fonts
and
/gnu/store/2sr90smj33k686394krjx1klhlpipd7z-home/profile/share/fonts... done
(same)
Evaluating on-change gexps.
On-change gexps evaluation finished.
```
I don't know if it's related, but since my last `guix pull`,
`herd status` has been reporting strange statuses:
```
$ herd status
Started:
+ root
Starting:
^ mcron
^ mpd
Stopped:
- tor
- transmission
```
`mcron` and `mpd` (a home service that I will eventually submit) are listed as
`starting`, but they are actually started and they work just fine!?
I had a look at this morning's log. This is what I see right after logging in:
```
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Starting service root...
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Service root started.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Service root running with value #t.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Service root has been started.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Daemonizing...
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Restarting signal handler.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Now running as process 567.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Starting services...
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Configuration successfully loaded from
'/gnu/store/zbfyaxxigns5lqyxhxzxhm92w54ns1cz-shepherd.conf'.
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Starting service mpd...
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Starting service mcron...
2023-08-23 08:21:36 Service mpd has been started.
2023-08-23 08:21:37 [mpd] Aug 23 08:21 : server_socket: bind to '0.0.0.0:6600'
failed (continuing anyway, because binding to '[::]:6600' succeeded): Failed to
bind socket: Address already in use
```
The last line is strange. It looks like a second instance of `mpd`
started, tried to bind to the same port and failed!?
After `guix home reconfigure` I get:
```
2023-08-23 08:31:51 Service mcron has been started.
2023-08-23 08:31:51 SSL2023-08-23 08:31:51 oading
/gnu/store/zbfyaxxigns5lqyxhxzxhm92w54ns1cz-shepherd.conf.
```
There is no mention to `mpd` and there's a timestamp right in the middle of
the second line?!
When I try to `herd stop SOMETHING`, it hangs forever and I have to
`ctrl+c` it.
Any idea what might be going wrong?!
--
Tanguy
