> Thank you very much for this, Attila!
you're welcome! :)
> Are the patch in 67839 and/or your branch "attila" linked from there in a
> state that I could test them locally? Would it be valuable to you if I ran a
> patched Shepherd and sent logs and/or backtraces as I encountered them?
it's
I've been experiencing this occasionally ever since I started using guix. It
happens on all of my machines and across different setups.
I don't use syncthing so it's probably not that.
The set of services I have has changed so much I'd have trouble identifying a
singular service that was in all
Attila Lendvai writes:
> i've also experienced this, and someone else on IRC also described the
> same behavior. that makes three of us.
I can confirm it too. It looks as if shepherd hangs when something
changes. But it doesn't happen all the time. It also happens sometimes
when configuring a
> > my suspicion is that it's due to some error coming from a start
> > GEXP that somehow derails shepherd's event loop.
[...]
> iirc I once managed to get a debugger out when it happened and it's
> stuck waiting in one of the epoll/select/alike calls,
...or one of the start/stop GEXP's calls
i've also experienced this, and someone else on IRC also described the same
behavior. that makes three of us.
i don't think it's relevant, but i'm also using syncthing.
my suspicion is that it's due to some error coming from a start GEXP that
somehow derails shepherd's event loop.
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• attila
I run Guix System on a remote server, and I've just had Shepherd hang itself
completely during a "guix system reconfigure" -- see the terminal log below.
This is the system Shepherd, i.e. PID 1, so it hanging is obviously not good.
I was debugging some nginx/certbot-related issues, which is the r