Hi, I'm trying to install Nix in a Guix System VM.
The Guix manual for the nix-service-type says to run /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh but the script complains that /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/cassou doesn't exist. I've added both the Nix service type and the Nix package to my configuration. After building the VM and starting it, I see a /nix/ folder, this is good. The Guix manual says to add a channel so I followed the steps of the Nix manual (https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#sec-channels) as normal user: $ nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable $ nix-channel --update $ nix-env -u error: expected JSON value (use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information) $ echo $? 1 Passing --show-trace reveals a long stack strace saying that callPackageWith failed in nixpkgs/lib/customisation.nix. So I tried with the nixos-20.03 channel instead of the nixpkgs-unstable and I managed to get nix-env -u to not complain. The Guix manual then asks to do: $ ln -s "/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/$USER/profile" ~/.nix-profile $ source /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh mkdir: cannot create directory /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/cassou: permission denied stat: cannot stat /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/cassou: No such file or directory Nix: WARNING: bad ownership on /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/cassou, should be 1000 It seems /nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user exists but the folder is empty. Best -- Damien Cassou "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
