services: shepherd: Add workaround for 0.5.0 in containers.

* gnu/services/shepherd.scm (%containerized-shepherd-service): New service.
* gnu/system.scm (essential-services): Use it when CONTAINER? is true.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/services/shepherd.scm b/gnu/services/shepherd.scm
index 4c7e72049f..49d08cc30f 100644
--- a/gnu/services/shepherd.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/shepherd.scm
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
             %default-modules
 
             shepherd-service-file
+            %containerized-shepherd-service
 
             shepherd-service-lookup-procedure
             shepherd-service-back-edges
@@ -327,6 +328,21 @@ symbols provided/required by a service."
   (lambda (service)
     (vhash-foldq* cons '() service edges)))
 
+(define %containerized-shepherd-service
+  ;; XXX: This service works around a bug in the Shepherd 0.5.0: shepherd
+  ;; calls reboot(2) (via 'disable-reboot-on-ctrl-alt-del') when it starts,
+  ;; but in a container that fails with EINVAL.  This was fixed in Shepherd
+  ;; commit 92e806bac1abaeeaf5d60f0ab50d1ae85ba6a62f.
+  (simple-service 'containerized-shepherd
+                  shepherd-root-service-type
+                  (list (shepherd-service
+                         (provision '(containerized-shepherd))
+                         (start #~(lambda ()
+                                    (set! (@@ (shepherd)
+                                              disable-reboot-on-ctrl-alt-del)
+                                      (const #t))
+                                    #t))))))
+
 (define (shepherd-service-upgrade live target)
   "Return two values: the subset of LIVE (a list of <live-service>) that needs
 to be unloaded, and the subset of TARGET (a list of <shepherd-service>) that