Hello Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email protected]> skribis:
> I installed Guix System from a USB flash drive from the current git > master. The manual describes I should set up a password with passwd. > I think the installer should automate this, so users do not need to > know the passwd command. I’ll open a separate bug for that. > After setting a password with `passwd florian` and logging in > as florian, I run `guix pull`. This yields the following error: > > pull: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/florian': > Permission denied > hint: Please create the `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/florian' directory, with > you > as the owner. Oh, got it. On a fresh system (one can check with ‘guix system vm bare-bones.tmpl’ for instance), /var/guix/profiles/per-user is 555 and root-owned, so not writable. Then, the first time a client such as ‘guix package’ connects to the daemon, the daemon chmods /var/guix/profiles/per-user to 777 (world-writable), see local-store.cc:89. Next, ‘guix package’ calls ‘ensure-default-profile’, which creates /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER. The problem with ‘guix pull’ is that it would call ‘ensure-default-profile’ before it has connected to the daemon. Fixed in a06a95baffc2005ad1a64c4c3f82fc328e0d0009. Thanks, Ludo’.
