The guix docs in [0] have a small bug of omission for upstart. After doing: # ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix- daemon.conf /etc/init/ you should then do: initctl reload-configuration
Otherwise the next part (start guix-daemon) fails saying it's not a service upstart knows about, since it was just added. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary- Installation.html
