Re: Upgrading Shepherd services

[Attila Lendvai]

> I see some services starting but no errors on the console. Also, there
> is absolutely nothing in /var/log/messages. Would it help to diagnose
> it using your Shepherd branch?


yep, in two ways: my branch has extensive logging (and currently its default 
level is set to debug), and i also reworked and extended the error handling.

my expectation is that your machine should both start up, and also emit some 
useful log why that specific service is failing.

if that is not the case, then i'd really love to see a self-contained 
reproducer.

if you want to dig deeper towards a reproducer, then one option is to try to 
write a guix system test that reproduces it (see gnu/tests/ for examples, and 
`make check-system`).

to use my shepherd channel:

 (channel
  (name 'shepherd)
  (url "https://codeberg.org/attila-lendvai-patches/shepherd.git";)
  (branch "attila")
  (introduction
   (make-channel-introduction
    ;; note that this commit id changes whenever i rebase and force-push my 
commits
    "13557ba988f4976f6581149ecdc06fce031258c7"
    (openpgp-fingerprint
     "69DA 8D74 F179 7AD6 7806  EE06 FEFA 9FE5 5CF6 E3CD"))))

and in your OS definition follow the instructions that are now in the shepherd 
README.

HTH,

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