Hey! Thanks for getting back to me on this! :) Andrew Tropin writes: > On 2022-10-19 18:21, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> 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. > > ~/.guix-home/activate should be launched only by guix home reconfigure, > so it shouldn't be touched during startup of the session at all, also > they both have a condition, which must prevent the start of shepherd if > socket exists. Yeah I know that they both have a check for the pid file, I remember finding your bug report and patch earlier and hoping that it would fix my issues, although now I understand that this would never have helped. I thought that they might still both try to start shepherd, since neither check nor execution of shepherd is atomic, so I figured they might end up both starting shepherd, one creating the pid and starting, the other failing to create it and crashing, but I couldn't think of why the first one would stop as well then. Anyway, I guess that is completely wrong if they don't actually ever get run at the same time :) > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm?h=883fb8f41b08a8455f16c736a83fb1ae8a3df0a1#n105 > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/home/services/shepherd.scm?h=883fb8f41b08a8455f16c736a83fb1ae8a3df0a1#n131 > > Tom, can you show your startup scripts, please (like xsession or > whatever you use for starting graphical environment)? Sharing home > environment config can be useful as well. Do you use some display/login > manager? My ~/.xinitrc is literally just: exec /gnu/store/rl6f55i52lldzmbgg6z0ywr41ni4kbjg-herbstluftwm-0.9.4/bin/herbstluftwm --autostart /gnu/store/lqif0y90y7ipvf9aakdjisygnffk4999-autostart I use the lightdm display manager installed with the Archlinux package manager. My home configuration on my laptop should be based on this: https://git.sr.ht/~ryuslash/dotfiles/tree/7771b3e1fd16a30bee09b11ecbaf2b1b69b3921b/item/oni/home/data/config.scm It's spread across a few files, so if there's anything specific you want to know please tell me, or if you need it in a different format I can provide that too, I figured this would be the easiest way. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Tom