Answering my own problem:

        restorecon -Rv /gnu/store

fixed the issue and allowed guix-daemon to restart. (But I don't understand 
SELinux at all.) 

James

> On 15 Sep 2026, at 20:14, James Geddes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I successfully installed Guix under Fedora, using guix-install.sh.
> 
> Then at some point I did `sudo -i guix pull` (as in the manual, section 2.5 
> Upgrading Guix), after which my guix daemon is no longer running. (For 
> example, `guix gc` gives `guix gc: error: failed to connect to 
> `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket`: Connection refused)
> 
> I'm going to try the suggestions in 2.5 for configuring the distribution to 
> use the new guix-daemon if one had installed with the distribution package 
> manger. 
> 
> Before I do that, though ... this is not supposed to happen, right? Is there 
> anything obvious that I did wrong?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> James 
> 
> 
> James Geddes
> e: [email protected]

James Geddes
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