Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> skribis:
> When trying to run `guix environment foo --container` I don't get a container
> with a new shell or any useful information, it just thinks about it for a
> while and then returns to the command prompt, allowing me to enter another
> command.
>
> efraim@debian-netbook:~$ strace -f -o log guix environment vim --container ;
> echo $?
> 1
The failure is:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
21228 mount("none", "/tmp/guix-directory.5sVcGc//dev/pts", "devpts",
MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC, "newinstance,ptmxmode=0666,mode=6"...) = -1 EPERM
(Operation not permitted)
21228 exit_group(1) = ?
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The problem may be that the kernel does not support
CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES. Could you check that in
/proc/config.gz or similar?
The other problem is that there’s no error reporting, which doubles user
frustration. David, could you look into it? :-)
Ludo’.
