Hi I think I'm experiencing a bug in Shepherd since version 1.0. Whenever I log out and log back in again, my user shepherd from the previous login session is still present, and a new user shepherd spawns for the current login session. So relogging N times results in N+1 user shepherds. For example, I have relogged 5 times since I last rebooted: $ herd status root Status of root: It is running since 00:30:02 (10 minutes ago). Main PID: 23450 Command: /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf ... $ pgrep shepherd 1 9891 10777 16417 18510 21960 23450 $ ps aux | grep shepherd root 1 0.0 0.9 222872 74456 ? Sl Dec15 0:08 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --config /gnu/store/p7al8wd1inwk8f5di2q4llcpd64mjn5q-shepherd.conf jake 9891 0.0 0.2 75816 23624 ? Ss Dec15 0:04 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 10777 0.0 0.3 76224 24752 ? Ss Dec16 0:03 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 16417 0.0 0.3 75752 24004 ? Ss Dec16 0:02 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 18510 0.0 0.2 75752 23760 ? Ss Dec16 0:01 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 21960 0.0 0.2 114608 22124 ? Ss Dec16 0:00 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 23450 0.0 0.2 114204 21328 ? Ss 00:30 0:00 /gnu/store/mfkz7fvlfpv3ppwbkv0imb19nrf95akf-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile --no-auto-compile /gnu/store/nl0w5c7pxxdczqiv4r9iq44al7nd5y5g-shepherd-1.0.0/bin/shepherd --silent --config /gnu/store/w3l6dmap815mm3qzx77xdazky853adda-shepherd.conf jake 23672 0.0 0.0 6636 2552 pts/1 S+ 00:32 0:00 grep --color=auto shepherd In addition, any daemons managed by the zombie shepherds also persist! I'm experiencing this on both of my Guix System machines. One is running GDM and XFCE. The other is running GDM and CWM. Please let me know if I can provide more information. Thanks Jake