bug#22039: [PATCH] 'guix system reconfigure' must start/restart/stop services

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Carlo,

Carlo Zancanaro <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Sep 02 2018, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> First, could you check (in a VM) whether the boot failure is
>> reproducible when that patch that removes ‘EINTR-safe’ is applied?
>
> As far as I can tell it's completely reproducible.

Commit c4ba8c79db0aa4ba3517acc82ebafe16105fbb97 reinstates the commit
and removes the leftover #:replace, which was responsible for the
problem: in the context of the ‘start’ method of udev, ‘system*’ was
unbound, to ‘start’ would throw an exception and shepherd would call it
again (thinking udev had failed to start), indefinitely.

If there’s nothing left to add to Shepherd, we can release 0.5.0 within
a few days and then commit the Guix side of this change.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.