bug#33260: [Shepherd] ERROR: In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "/run/user/30011/shepherd

[swedebugia]

Hi :)

On 2018-11-06 15:03, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
>
> swedebugia <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > In a VM with GuixSD I did:
> >
> > $ shepherd
> > Backtrace:
> >             3 (primitive-load "/run/current-system/profile/bin/shephe…")
> > In shepherd.scm:
> >      164:9  2 (main . _)
> > In shepherd/support.scm:
> >     396:20  1 (verify-dir _ #:secure? _)
> > In unknown file:
> >             0 (stat "/run/user/30011/shepherd" #<undefined>)
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure stat:
> > In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "/run/user/30011/shepherd"
> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > But who starts the per-user shepherd?
> I do!  I run ‘shepherd’ as non-root on GuixSD, and I don’t have the
> above file-not-found issue.  On GuixSD, /run/user/UID is created as
> expected, and I suspect it’s the same on most other GNU/Linux distros
> these days.
>
> swedebugia, what distribution are you using?  On GuixSD, 30011 is a UID
> that would be allocated to one of the build users, which cannot “log in”.

GuixSD VM image in Qemu on parabola.

address@hidden ~$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 1f44934fb6e2cefccbecd4fa347025349fa9ff76 (v0.15)

$ which shepherd
/run/current-system/profile/bin/shepherd

address@hidden ~$ readlink -f $(which shepherd)
/gnu/store/fwc1nkcc0hfyr1d9snpbvfss4pz4ycrw-shepherd-0.4.0/bin/shepherd

$ uname -a

Linux komputilo 4.17.3-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Cheers
Swedebugia