Following up on the thread from guix-devel:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-07/msg00554.html>
On 0.8.3-pre, after a clean install, users listed in the system
configuration file do not have a home directory automatically created
for them in some circumstances. This causes the user to be initially
unable to login. Specifically, with a separately mounted home folder,
the folder may not be created. I note that when un-mounting /home, the
expected folder does appear.
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup with X11.
(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules xfce ratpoison wicd avahi xorg certs)
(operating-system
(host-name "antelope")
(timezone "Europe/Paris")
(locale "en_US.UTF-8")
;; Assuming /dev/sdX is the target hard disk, and "root" is
;; the label of the target root file system.
(bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda")))
(file-systems (cons* (file-system
(device "rootfs")
(title 'label)
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4"))
(file-system
(device "boot")
(title 'label)
(mount-point "/boot")
(type "ext2"))
(file-system
(device "homefs")
(title 'label)
(mount-point "/home")
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems))
(users (cons (user-account
(name "bob")
(comment "Alice's brother")
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video"))
(home-directory "/home/bob"))
%base-user-accounts))
;; Add Xfce and Ratpoison; that allows us to choose
;; sessions using either of these at the log-in screen.
(packages (cons* xfce ratpoison ;desktop environments
xterm wicd avahi ;useful tools
nss-certs ;for HTTPS access
%base-packages))
;; Use the "desktop" services, which include the X11
;; log-in service, networking with Wicd, and more.
(services %desktop-services)
;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
