Hi Ludo,

Thank you for your time and help.

I creaed a simple script, it may be helpfull for quick glance on guix healh in
general =)

I try to include all discussed steps I've tried to have a broad picture.

> ./guix-health.sh
> [1697156132.285]: [ PASS ] verification of required commands completed
> [1697156132.315]: [ PASS ] Guix socket file is present in /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket
> [1697156132.318]: [ WARN ] guix-daemon is stopped
> [1697156132.323]: [ WARN ] guix-daemon is not listed in current system config

Sharlatan Hellseher (1):
  etc: Add guix-health.sh

 etc/guix-health.sh | 145 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 145 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 etc/guix-health.sh


base-commit: 5a3fb306535c2ec0a118f2f0bc8f6a162b85c7d6
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2.41.0

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 08:20, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sharlatan,
>
> Sharlatan Hellseher <sharlatanus@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I think I just get used to kick it manually and forgot to replay on
> > this issue =)
>
> Ouch.  :-)
>
> >  sudo grep -i "shepherd\|herd" /var/log/messages  | tail
> > grep: /var/log/messages: binary file matches
>
> Looks like grep didn’t actually output matches, did it?
>
> Could you screen the file, starting from the latest boot, in search of
> references to guix-daemon?
>
> > There this no track of guix-daemon was starting in herd log
> >
> > herd log | grep daemon
> > 10 Oct 2023 00:03:30    service upower-daemon is being started
> > 10 Oct 2023 00:03:30    service upower-daemon is running
> > 10 Oct 2023 00:03:30    service ssh-daemon is being started
> > 10 Oct 2023 00:03:30    service ssh-daemon is running
>
> What about ‘sudo herd status’?  Does guix-daemon show up there?
>
> Also, could you check:
>
>   guix system shepherd-graph /run/current-system/configuration.scm | \
>     guix shell xdot -- xdot -
>
> to make sure guix-daemon actually is in your config, to be 100% sure?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.



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… наш разум - превосходная объяснительная машина которая способна
найти смысл почти в чем угодно, истолковать любой феномен, но
совершенно не в состоянии принять мысль о непредсказуемости.