I am trying to use the awesome Guix Home Shepherd service for syncthing (home-syncthing-service-type).

 

Syncthing works fine but every time I log out of my last user session and log back in again, a new instance of the user shepherd is started (and tries to start syncthing again).

After logging out and in a few times, there are multiple user shepherd processes.

 

Suspected cause:  Apparently the user shepherd process is not killed on last logout before elogind (correctly) removes XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

So on next login, a new empty XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is created, causing a new user shepherd to be started while the old one is still running happily.

This seems to be a general issue and not particular to the syncthing home service.

 

System: Guix System on x86_64

Guix commit: ac61e9705fb8c450c6cd0c1731fbb1b909c1f944

 

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Uli