Seen with 0.10.4: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ sudo herd status tor Statut de tor : It is running since sam. 01 juin 2024 15:58:57 (9 days ago). Valeur d’exécution 453. Activé. Fournit (tor). Requiert (user-processes loopback syslogd). Sera relancé. ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ sudo herd unload root tor Removing service 'tor'... Done. ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ sudo herd status tor ^C ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ sudo herd status ^C ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ ps 453 PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND ludo@guix-hpc7 ~$ cat /proc/1/cmdline |xargs -0 /gnu/store/bhynhk0c6ssq3fqqc59fvhxjzwywsjbb-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/39li5qpiaj1lx89xgahlbgvfnjhpcpwg-shepherd-0.10.4/bin/shepherd --config /gnu/store/2vynkp1zv8ybq513clrcp1ga1bi156wb-shepherd.conf --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Inetd services such as sshd also become unavailable: shepherd accepts connections but does not process them. Excerpt of /var/log/messages: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost shepherd[1]: Removing service 'tor'... Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost shepherd[1]: Stopping service tor... Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost Tor[2]: Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly. Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost shepherd[1]: Service tor stopped. Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost shepherd[1]: Service tor is now stopped. Jun 10 16:20:29 localhost shepherd[1]: Done. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The workaround is to reboot the hard way: sudo guile --no-auto-compile -L /gnu/store/39li5qpiaj1lx89xgahlbgvfnjhpcpwg-shepherd-0.10.4/share/guile/site/3.0/ -c '(use-modules (shepherd system)) (sync) (pk "bye!") (reboot)' Ludo’.
