Hi Irfan,
Yes, you and seven other kind people gently indicated how careless I was
to not use ' guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm' . I also
understand that config.scm can be anywhere,
but there should only be one of these which, at the very least defines a
user list; I think.
Perhaps a different type of config.scm may be necessary to encapsulate a
'reproducible environment of builds, but I can't yet fathom if said
reproducible builds environment' can also define itself for a separate
set of users at the same IP #.
So until I learn more, I can only say that I believe it's best to leave
config.scm in /etc/ until I learn more.
Thanks also your reply,
Peri
On 2026-04-07 10:49, Irfan S wrote:
Hi Peri,
Peri Didaskalou<[email protected]> writes:
As per the manual, I carefully edited the new user into /etc/config.scm via
sudo emacs /etc/config.scm
The config file need not be in /etc, it can be anywhere, preferably in a
user-writable directory under /home so that you need not sudo in order to edit
it.
After saving the file and subsequently rebooting, I logged in as myself
Is it possible you missed the reconfigure step? After any change to the config
file that defines your system, you must run the command ‘sudo -E guix system
reconfigure /path/to/config-file.scm’ in order that guix build a new generation
of the system with the changes you made (the -E flag to sudo preserves the
calling user’s environment, which uses the guix version pulled by them; it is
not strictly necessary. And otherwise sudo is generally not needed for guix
commands.). The same command must be run to actually update the system
generation after running ’guix pull’, just as you might have done when
installing guix system. The manual mentions this in section 3.7.
Cheers,
Irfan
