bug#50941: Potential bug in guix home

[Xinglu Chen]

On Fri, Oct 01 2021, Pascal Lorenz wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I assumed user privileges should be enough for guix home, but guix
> home reconfigure home.scm returns this result:
>
> /gnu/store/…-home
> guix home: error: mkdir: permission denied
>
>
> This happens in a fresh and up to date VirtualBox VM with the only
> changes being a few installed packages (emacs, vim & tmux) and the
> guix home configuration.
>
> Please tell me if I forgot any relevant piece of information.

It’s hard to know why this happens without some more information.

Could you share a bracktrace if there was one, and what’s the contents
of the ‘home.scm’ file?

Does the issue happen if you run ‘guix home build home.scm’?

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