1. Glad you identified why `HOME` was unset, due to the
`with-clean-environment` function. I am surprised a few environment variables
are not conveyed through the code path, as `ssh` does for variables it deems
safe, including `HOME`, `LOGNAME`, `TZ`, and `USER`.
2. My RHEL7 machine is _not_ running `nscd` as you surmised. This machine was
configured to use LDAP for user account management.
3. Thanks for the link to the documentation for post-installation steps on
non-Guix systems. I had that page open in a tab, and never got to it because
`guix pull` was failing before I got that far in the instructions. I'm reading
through those now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Date: Friday, May 10, 2019 at 6:23 PM
To: Karrick McDermott <kmcderm...@linkedin.com>
Cc: "35...@debbugs.gnu.org" <35...@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35623: FW: bug#35623: guix pull failed on RHEL7
Hi,
Karrick McDermott <kmcderm...@linkedin.com> skribis:
> In ./guix/utils.scm:
> 661:47 1 (xdg-directory _ "/.config" #:ensure? _)
> In unknown file:
> 0 (getpw 10452)
>
> ERROR: In procedure getpw:
> In procedure getpw: entry not found
> ?-guix pull: [1;31merror: [0mYou found a bug: the program
'/gnu/store/4hsmk7kh62yvbi154pyy3nq8drml116a-compute-guix-derivation'
This happens because ‘with-clean-environment’ in
‘build-aux/build-self.scm’ clears the environment while executing
“compute-guix-derivation”. Thus ‘HOME’ is unset.
Additionally, could it be that you’re not running nscd? See:
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgnu.org%2Fsoftware%2Fguix%2Fmanual%2Fen%2Fhtml_node%2FApplication-Setup.html%23Name-Service-Switch-1&data=02%7C01%7Ckmcdermott%40linkedin.com%7C6c139fc36f1242e5299808d6d596266f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C1%7C636931238208308701&sdata=CxU7cDx1M8ZLDpyQIvsINkttxiQXKeisUYyipLVdeyw%3D&reserved=0
That said, we could also let ‘HOME’ through in the execution environment
of “compute-guix-derivation”, it can’t hurt.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
