Hi Konrad, On July 2, 2019 5:16:40 PM UTC, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I am exploring the possibility of running Guix under macOS via Docker. >First I ran 'guix system docker-image` on a minimal system >configuration, which I then transferred to the Mac and started. >Overall it works admirably well. There are however a few services >that don't work, in particulary syslogd:
Try running the Docker container in privileged mode (docker run --privileged); I think this will allow the necessary Guix services dependencies of the syslog service to run. I forgot the details, bit I think it has to do with syslog depending on something you'd have on a real system but not in a container. > root@guix /# herd status > Started: > + file-systems > + guix-daemon > + host-name > + loopback > + root > + root-file-system > + udev > + urandom-seed > + user-file-systems > + user-processes > + virtual-terminal > Stopped: > - nscd > - ssh-daemon > - syslogd > One-shot: > * user-homes > > root@guix /# herd start syslogd > Service syslogd could not be started. > herd: failed to start service syslogd > >I have no idea why this should fail, and worse, I have no idea how to >debug this. I think I've used the emacs-guix package to see the dependency graphs of services and that helped me IIRC. Plus peaking in the services source code. HTH, Maxim
