On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:55:28AM +0530, Aakanksha Jain wrote:
> I have completed the GNU Guix installation using this script
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/etc/guix-install.sh
> 
> But while trying to run hello package, I get following error(image attached)

The error message is this:

guix package: error: build failed: the group `guixbuild' specificed in
`build-users-group' does not exist

What operating system are you using? I had the same problem on Debian.

> Someone on irc suggested installing nscd package. But its still not working.

How did you install the nscd package?

> What can be the resolve for this?

I think it is another case of <https://bugs.gnu.org/30298>. The
workaround is to install and use nscd, or to edit '/etc/nsswitch.conf',
as described here:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30298#17

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