"Cook, Malcolm" <m...@stowers.org> skribis:
> However
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello
>
> Gives me
>
> guix package: error: build failed: the build users group `guix-builder'
> has no members
>
> But, but, I do have a group `guix-builder`
>
> I think the problem may be that my guix-builder group was defined in NIS
> whereas its members are not in NIS.
What does ‘getenv group guix-builder’ return? It should show something
like:
guixbuild:x:30000:guixbuilder01,guixbuilder02,guixbuilder03,guixbuilder04,guixbuilder05,guixbuilder06,guixbuilder07,guixbuilder08,guixbuilder09,guixbuilder10
Each build account must have ‘guix-builder’ in its supplementary group list.
> The daemon is running as user `guix` on host ${GUIXHOST}
The daemon really needs to run as root, if possible:
http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html
> However trying to --install is not successful
>
> /gnu/bin/guix package --install hello
> accepted connection from pid 26597, uid 1232
> error: while creating directory `/gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/mec':
> Permission denied
> Please create the `/gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/mec' directory, with
> you as the owner.
> Try "info '(guix) Invoking guix package'" for more information.
>
> Which leads me to think the documentation is in error where it says "The
> per-user directory is created when guix-daemon is started".
Well, /var/guix/profiles/per-user is created by the daemon, but .../mec
is created by ‘guix package’.
> Creating it by hand (owned by guix, with write access to all) :
>
> mkdir /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user ## the doc says this should
> happen by the daemon but not! FIXME! BUG?
> chmod a+rwx /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user
Perfect.
The daemon really does create /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user, making it
world-writable (see nix/libstore/local-store.cc:254.)
However, you mentioned guix-daemon was *not* running as root, in which
case it does not attempt to create this directory. That could be the
reason.
Thanks for your report,
Ludo’.
