On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:14:06 -0500 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:56:39PM +0000, Phil wrote: > > I'm almost certain that option wasn't used - I know it, and it's > > risky so wouldn't be inclined to run the daemon like that, but I > > can't categorically rule out that I gave it a quick try. I have > > root access to the server so wouldn't need to use it. > > Okay, since you know what it's about, I agree it's unlikely you used > it. > > > I had previously played around with adding a single directory to the > > chroot (--chroot-directory=dir) as a means of getting test XML > > results out of builds of my own custom packages, but this was > > months ago - apart from that I always use default settings for the > > daemon. > > Hm... I suppose this is a likely candidate for explaining what > happened here. > > > It is likely to remain a mystery alas.... > > Agreed, the details will be hard to uncover. Hopefully it was a > one-off mistake and not a bug in Guix... > Could it be a bug in package that stored the value of $HOME at build time? Maybe it tried to mkdir -p its config directory and created /homeless-shelter. You could perhaps try grepping for "homeless-shelter" in your store or in that specific package.
