bug#63678: Can't restart/halt system with shepherd 0.9.3 after upgrading

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>>
>>> May 24 11:17:02 localhost shepherd[1]: Evaluating user expression (and (defined? (quote transient?)) (map (# ?) ?)).
>>> May 24 11:17:02 localhost shepherd[1]: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?).
>>> May 24 11:17:03 localhost shepherd[1]: Service host-name has been started.
>>> May 24 11:17:03 localhost shepherd[1]: Service user-homes has been started.
>>> May 24 11:17:03 localhost shepherd[1]: [sysctl] fs.protected_hardlinks = 1
>>> May 24 11:17:03 localhost shepherd[1]: [sysctl] fs.protected_symlinks = 1
>>> May 24 11:18:41 localhost shepherd[1]: Exiting shepherd...
>>> May 24 11:18:46 localhost shepherd[1]: Grace period of 5 seconds is over; sending -337 SIGKILL.
>>> May 24 11:23:55 localhost shepherd[1]: Service root is not running.
>>
>> The grace period expiration thing is probably due to the fact that
>> shepherd is no longer processing signals, as I described here:
>>
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63736
>>
>> Could you share all of /var/log/messages (possibly privately, and
>> limiting to “shepherd” lines) starting from when the machine booted?
>> I’d like to see if there are hints of something that went wrong.
>
> The machine is hamal (one of the HoneyComb's) and I've added a user for
> you now and added the SSH key from maintenance.git.
>
> So you should be able to: ssh ludo@hamal.cbaines.net

Doesn’t work right now; anything in the logs?

Ludo’.