By default, master-failover will call "herd start ganeti-wconfd" with
extra arguments such as --force-node.  That does not work with the
Shepherd, so the Guix service has a "force-start" action for this purpose.

diff --git a/lib/bootstrap.py b/lib/bootstrap.py
--- a/lib/bootstrap.py
+++ b/lib/bootstrap.py
@@ -1011,9 +1011,7 @@ def MasterFailover(no_voting=False):
 
   try:
     # Forcefully start WConfd so that we can access the configuration
-    result = utils.RunCmd([pathutils.DAEMON_UTIL,
-                           "start", constants.WCONFD, "--force-node",
-                           "--no-voting", "--yes-do-it"])
+    result = utils.RunCmd(["herd", "force-start", constants.WCONFD])
     if result.failed:
       raise errors.OpPrereqError("Could not start the configuration daemon,"
                                  " command %s had exitcode %s and error %s" %
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