bug#50941: Potential bug in guix home

[Xinglu Chen]

merge 50941 50945
thanks

On Fri, Oct 01 2021, Oleg Pykhalov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Does the issue happen if you run ‘guix home build home.scm’?
>
> I guess I reproduced this.  No, guix home build has no errors.
>
> reconfigure requires /run/user directory which doesn't produced by
> %base-services, but %desktop-services with [1] probably does.

Ah, then this would be the same problem as bug#50945.

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature