From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 33968-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33968: errors in shepherd service constructors are not logged and lead to misleading status
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:15:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1kktojy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c7f7030-a0f2-5fd0-7d02-f203277d7bba@gmail.com> (Florian Dold's message of "Thu, 3 Jan 2019 22:36:20 +0100")
Florian Dold <florian.dold@gmail.com> skribis:
> when defining a service type that extends shepherd-root-service-type and
> the 'start' function of the shepherd-service definition contains an
> error, the error is silently ignored. No log output is generated at all.
[...]
> I generally feel like the state machine for services needs some work.
> In particular, it would be useful to distinguish between "failed" and
> "completed" services instead of conflating both states into "stopped".
> Or maybe have some more general mechanism for storing state about the
> service, instead of just the slot that usually contains the PID?
It’s been 4 years (!) but the good news is that all this is fixed as of
Shepherd 0.10. Closing!
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-03 21:36 bug#33968: errors in shepherd service constructors are not logged and lead to misleading status Florian Dold
2021-05-20 3:00 ` bug#33968: errors in shepherd service constructors are not logged and lead to misleading status, hang boot Maxim Cournoyer
2023-06-15 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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