On Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:45:34 +0300 Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 03:01:52AM -0400, jgart via Bug reports for GNU Guix > wrote: > > I was going to report this today but Pascal beat me to it. > > > > I get the same error when running `guix home reconfigure file.scm`. > > > > `guix home build file.scm` builds fine without errors. > > Can you try setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to someplace that you have writable > and then running reconfigure again? I have to warn you though I don't > have a good answer for what to do if it works this time and doesn't work > if you log out and log back in again.
That fixed it for me. Specifically `export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=$HOME/tmp` like Maxime mentioned. I think this should be documented for guix home users on a foreign distro so they don't get frustrated with this detail of getting set up. WDYT? Or is there another way that this configuration should be managed on a foreign distro? all best, jgart
