Thanks for the hint Tobias, I am currently on a foreign installation of Guix after some time on Guix System, and did not appreciate that guix-daemon ran off of the root user's guix. Simply running `guix pull` as root and restarting the daemon fixed this issue.
I see Jéŕemy posted in the 'help' mail list for this issue, I will consider that list for questions in the future. I am new to the mailing list system. Thank you for your help, Michael