On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:15:53PM +0000, Roy Lemmon wrote: > I am trying to install guix on my nixos system. I am using the shell script > provided on the guix installation page: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh > > All works well until the script tries to install the guix-daemon service. > It cannot install it in /etc/systemd/system and so the daemon cannot be > started. See below. > > Has anyone come across this problem ? I thought /etc filesystem was > writeable as that is where configuration.nix lives.
Did you try installing the guix-daemon.service file by hand? Did you check the permissions of '/etc', and '/etc/systemd', etc? Did you try putting the guix-daemon.service in root's systemd service directory, '/root/.config/systemd'?
