Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Currently (40a729a0e6f1d660b942241416c1e2c567616d4d), shepherd and > dbus-daemon compete to start elogind: shepherd tries to start it > eagerly, and dbus-daemon starts it on-demand upon bus activation. > > Sometimes dbus-daemon wins, and thus shepherd tries a few times to start > it anyway, leading to the infamous: > > elogind is already running as PID 123 Do we have a system test that sometimes reproduce it, or at least the above message? I have some branch where I introduce some D-Bus synchronization primitives I had started to fix https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/52051, which ended up being fixed differently (bumping the timeout value); perhaps it could be of use here. Thanks, Maxim