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Subject: Re: time out in shepherd service?
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:13:58 +0100
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ng0 <ng0@libertad.pw> skribis:

> Is there a time out in shepherd service start/checks, or is the
> "service could not be started" simply a result of when a service
> encounters a fatal error and quits?

=E2=80=9CService could not be started=E2=80=9D just means that the =E2=80=
=98start=E2=80=99 procedure of
the service returned #f or threw an exception.

To debug this, you=E2=80=99d have to check the service=E2=80=99s log files,=
 or use
#:log-file to redirect the stdout/stderr to a log file.

HTH!

Ludo=E2=80=99.