bug#65178: Shepherd stops responding during "guix system reconfigure"

[Attila Lendvai]

> Thank you very much for this, Attila!


you're welcome! :)


> Are the patch in 67839 and/or your branch "attila" linked from there in a
> state that I could test them locally? Would it be valuable to you if I ran a
> patched Shepherd and sent logs and/or backtraces as I encountered them?


it's nice of you, but not really. now that we have a failing test case in 
shepherd's unit tests that can reproduce it much easier.

with #67839 you would only get you an extra "Assertion failed" message over 
master, without much useful output.

as for my branch, it would emit a lot of useful log, including backtraces, but 
i keep force-pushing into it. i'm running my servers with it, though, so if you 
feel really adventurous, and want to join the debugging, then you can try... 
otherwise it's too much in flux.

what we need to focus on now is making shepherd's test suite run clean again, 
one way or another. then i can test it in a real life environment, and report 
back with any possible findings.

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