I already fixed it : ) I had to _restart_ the guix daemon. Note: It was already running according to `systemctl status`. So this might be worth some consideration for the future: If the daemon is running, but there is no socket, tell the user something like: "You might need to restart your guix daemon."
It would be great to have an official uninstallation / removal guide for Guix, that does prevent all problems in future reinstalls of Guix. Now I only need to fix the issue with the locales again. That is a topic for another question under a different title though. Hans > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:48:35 +0200 > From: Hans-Werner Roitzsch <hwroitz...@posteo.net> > To: help-guix@gnu.org > Subject: GUIX installation / uninstallation problem > Message-ID: <ad90d430-74d0-3eb6-8d50-325577d8a...@posteo.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hello Guix users! > > I sort of messed up my Guix setup as follows: > > I installed Guix using the binary installer script. The installer asked > me, whether I wanted to allow prebuilt packages and I thought: "Nah, let > it compile packages." Not considering how long that would take initially > and/or with any updates for packages. > > Then I started installing the locales as suggested, when you do not have > them yet, which I think is always the case on a fresh Guix installation. > So I started installing those with the command provided by the Guix > installer. > > I think it spent already 30min or so compiling stuff, when I canceled > it. Then I started looking for a way to change the prebuilt thingy > setting, as I realized what I had done. I found no way to change the > setting and neither did any web search yield anything helpful. So I went > ahead and thought "Isn't it like a thing contained in one directory? I > should be able to simply delete Guix using `rm -rf` ?". I deleted `/gnu` > and a few other locations. > > Then I tried to install Guix again, but it refused to "overwrite" an > existing installation. So there must have been traces of the previous > installation left somewhere. I searched more about uninstalling Guix and > found very little. At some point I found the following Arch Linux wiki > link: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Guix > > I removed all the guixbuilders and the group guixbuild. Then I removed > the other paths mentioned in the wiki article. > > Finally Guix installer did not find any previous installation any longer > and installed, seemingly without problems. > > But then I started to see the actual problem. When I tried installing > the locales following the installation of Guix an error with the guix > daemon socket came up: > > ===== > guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales > guile: warning: failed to install locale > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' > package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines: > > ??? guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales > ??? export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" > > See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info. > > > guix package: error: failed to connect to > `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory > ===== > > So now my question is: How can I repair my Guix, its socket, or better > yet: Completely remove and reinstall it? > > Thanks for any help! > > Hans
