Hi, Andrew, does the bug report below ring a bell? https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57844 (I haven’t hit that problem myself.) Ludo’. Tom Willemse skribis: > Hi Guix! > > I've been using Guix on Archlinux for a little while now, and ever since > I've started using Guix Home on my laptop to start up user-level > services I've been having the issue that about 50% of the time when I > boot my laptop shepherd fails to start. > > My .xsession-errors says: > >> shepherd: while opening socket '/run/user/1000/shepherd/socket': bind: >> Address already in use > > and looking at my shepherd log: > >> 2022-09-15 11:47:18 Service root has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:18 Service root has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Starting services... >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Starting services... >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Exiting shepherd... >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service dunst has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service unclutter has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service syncthing has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service polybar has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service cmst has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:19 Service kdeconnect has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service xbindkeys has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service picom has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service xmodmap has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service redshift has been started. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Exiting shepherd... >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service syncthing has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service xbindkeys has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service redshift has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service cmst has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service kdeconnect has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service polybar has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service dunst has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service picom has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Service unclutter has been stopped. >> 2022-09-15 11:47:20 Exiting. > > It looks like it starts twice and then exits both, but I'm not sure why. > I'm guessing it's the ~/.guix-home/activate and > ~/.guix-home/on-first-login that are trying to start it. > > I'm not sure what other information I can provide you that will help, so > please let me know! > > > Cheers, > > Tom