Hi All, I believe the recommended suggestion is Debian specific is it not?
My kernel supports user namespaces and doesn't expose that file at that location. The only way I can work around the issue is to downgrade guix to the commit on the master branch right before 8bc5ca5160db3d82bd5b6b2b7ed80c96f42bd33e guix pull --commit=0d5d1bdf911659f60601058e8e1678187b7ba664 --allow-downgrades Best, Jesse On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 12:03 PM zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Please try the recommendation. Have you tried it? > > please set /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1" > > As root, you just do: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone > > then “guix environment -C” should work as expected. To do the trick > automatically with Sheperd, I do not know, but I am sure that the > systemd equivalent > > echo "kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 1" > /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf > sysctl --system > > seems doable with Guix System. > > > On my system, and I need explanations if it does not work similarly on > yours, I simply do: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc hello -- hello > guix environment: error: cannot create container: unprivileged user cannot > create user namespaces > guix environment: error: please set > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1" > > $ su - > Password: > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone > # logout > > $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc hello -- hello > Hello, world! > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Hope that helps, > simon > > > >
