Hi Veera, On 2020-04-12 05:25, R Veera Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > This is to report: > mpd-service-type needs a pre-existing user in system and does not works > with a new user defined in config.scm. Running guix system reconfigure > gives some getpw error. > > Guix system reconfigure works fine if we add temporarily a user with useradd. > > Thanks, > Veera
This bug no longer applies as mpd-service-type has gone through some refactorings in the meantime. Worth noting is that mpd-service-type isn't meant to be used with interactive user-accounts, for such cases a home service variant should be used instead. Cheers, Bruno