Hi,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> After killing a Wayland 'gnome-session' that I had launched from the
>> command-line on tty2, the login prompt did not return as it normally
>> does.
>>
>> I decided to try "herd restart term-tty2" to see if that would help.
>> That turned out to be a serious mistake.  It caused TERM to be sent to
>> all processes, most filesystems to be unmounted, and many (all?) core
>> services to be stopped.  This left my system in a unusuable state,
>> besides being able to switch between otherwise unresponsive text virtual
>> terminals and issue SysRq commands.
>
> Per ‘guix system shepherd-graph desktop.tmpl’, the only dependent of
> ‘term-tty2’ is ‘console-font-tty2’.
>
> I just tried in a desktop.tmpl VM and only ‘console-font-tty2’ is
> restarted (screenshot attached.)  Same on my laptop, which uses Xorg but
> not GNOME.
>
> Could it be something with the Wayland-related services?  Could you
> check ‘guix system shepherd-graph’ on your config?

I did so, and it shows that the only dependent of 'term-tty2' is
'console-font-tty2', as expected.

I've attached my OS config, in case it contains any clues.

    Thanks,
      Mark