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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

swedebugia <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 2018-11-06 15:03, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

[...]

>> 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

What does ‘id’ return?  What about: ‘herd status | grep logind’?
Does /run/user exist?

Thanks in advance,
Ludo’.