bug#55585: inetd-based bitlbee service terminating on new connections

[Kaelyn]

Hi,

Recently I upgraded my server running bitlbee for the first time in a few weeks 
(from guix commit 3363f2c878 to 14384d9586), and after rebooting I was unable 
to connect to bitlbee because the child service spawned on connect terminates 
within a few seconds. I'm not certain, but I believe commit 211fe3f66e 
"services: bitlbee: Use 'make-inetd-constructor'." is the culprit. From 
/var/log/messages (with the IP address edited out) when I try to connect:

May 21 21:24:31 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:22 from 
W.X.Y.Z:38014.
May 21 21:25:21 localhost shepherd[1]: 0 connections still in use after 
bitlbee-3 termination.
May 21 21:25:21 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-3 has been disabled.
May 21 21:25:21 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-3 terminated, 
now unregistered.
May 21 21:25:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:6969 from 
W.X.Y.Z:46492.
May 21 21:25:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-4 has been started.
May 21 21:25:26 localhost shepherd[1]: 0 connections still in use after 
bitlbee-4 termination.
May 21 21:25:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-4 has been disabled.
May 21 21:25:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-4 terminated, 
now unregistered.
May 21 21:25:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:6969 from 
W.X.Y.Z:46494.
May 21 21:25:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-5 has been started.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-5 has been stopped.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-5 unregistered.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:6969 from 
W.X.Y.Z:46496.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-6 has been started.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: 1 connection still in use after 
bitlbee-6 termination.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-6 has been disabled.
May 21 21:27:57 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-6 terminated, 
now unregistered.
May 21 21:28:02 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee has been stopped.
May 21 21:28:28 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee has been started.
May 21 21:28:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:6969 from 
W.X.Y.Z:46500.
May 21 21:28:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-7 has been started.
May 21 21:28:56 localhost shepherd[1]: 1 connection still in use after 
bitlbee-7 termination.
May 21 21:28:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-7 has been disabled.
May 21 21:28:56 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-7 terminated, 
now unregistered.
May 21 21:29:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Accepted connection on 0.0.0.0:6969 from 
W.X.Y.Z:46502.
May 21 21:29:26 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-8 has been started.
May 21 21:29:45 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee has been stopped.
May 21 21:29:51 localhost shepherd[1]: 1 connection still in use after 
bitlbee-8 termination.
May 21 21:29:51 localhost shepherd[1]: Service bitlbee-8 has been disabled.
May 21 21:29:51 localhost shepherd[1]: Transient service bitlbee-8 terminated, 
now unregistered.

Cheers,
Kaelyn




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