Re: Problem with Shepherd after `guix home reconfigure`

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Hilton,

First of, I have to apologize to Shep[H]erd for the typo! Soooorry! 😅
I've just fixed it in the subject.


Quoting Hilton Chain (2023-08-22 14:40:57)
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:33:05 +0800,
> Tanguy LE CARROUR wrote:
> >
> > Hi Guix,
> >
> > This morning I `guix pull` and `guix system reconfigure` my system
> > and everything seemed to be OK. But, when I `guix home reconfigure`,
> > I got an error message:
> >
> > ```
> > Loading /gnu/store/x103955zkwzkbmb9hji0dxc5fk7l8c3q-shepherd.conf.
> > herd: error: exception caught while executing 'load' on service 'root':
> > Unbound variable: %user-log-dir
> > ```
> 
> Thank you for reporting the issue!
> 
> This is caused by a missing module in mcron's service definition, and
> now it should be fixed in 552d0703776c532f25498d5cb852c3c497cb9252.
> 
> Please run `guix pull', then reconfigure the home environment.

Much better! Thanks! 👍

I still have an error message, though:

```
$ guix home reconfigure
# […]
Loading /gnu/store/zbfyaxxigns5lqyxhxzxhm92w54ns1cz-shepherd.conf.
herd: error: exception caught while executing 'load' on service 'root':
In procedure fport_write: Input/output error
```

I've just tried something that, as weird as it sounds, I had never done before:
`herd stop mcron`! And… it just hangs forever!? I guess it not the
expected behaviour?! 🤔
I `ctrl+c`-ed it and, now, `herd status` also hangs forever!? 😞
I'll see if everything goes back to normal after the next reboot…

Cheers,

-- 
Tanguy