bug#63678: Can't restart/halt system with shepherd 0.9.3 after upgrading

[david larsson]

On 2023-05-24 12:27, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey!
>
> On a system running shepherd 0.9.3 [1], I've reconfigured, but now 
> can't
> reboot or halt.
>
> root@hamal ~# halt
> Service root is not running.
>
> 1: /gnu/store/y6w0xix15cq08qasmq75f04yzgbl98jx-shepherd-0.9.3

FWIW, this has happened to me a bunch of times, I just never reported 
it. Sometimes I was able to just login as root and run herd start root 
to fix it.

I have an impression, from the "bunch of times" I've experienced, that 
service root doesn't fail to work because of the system reconfigure, but 
for some other reason.


Best regards,
David