Hi Ludo,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>Could you check what /var/log/messages says for this specific occurrence?

>It will shed some light as to what services were started, in what order, how they failed, etc.

I have attached the kernel log information for today (August 5 2022) as well as the output of "herd status". You can see that on line 1020 "user-processes" successfully starts, but "guix-daemon" or "nscd" doesn't attempt to start afterwards for some unknown reason. Below is a summary of the relevant events from the log:

This seems to indicate that the Shepherd will attempt to start "user-processes" multiple times until it succeeds. But Shepherd won't try to start "guix-daemon" or "nscd" if it has failed once.

Cheers

Markus