Hilco Wijbenga <[email protected]> writes: > On 26 December 2016 at 19:48, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 03:14:42PM -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> Specifically, "systemctl enable guix-daemon" fails with "Failed to >>> execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links" (see [1]). Is >>> there a workaround for this? I suppose I could simply copy >>> guix-daemon.service into /etc/systemd/system instead of linking to it >>> but I'm not sure how many other things will fail because of this >>> symlink limitation. >> >> I recommend copying the service file as you suggested. It's exactly what >> I do on Debian, both before systemd 231 and after, and it works fine for >> me. > > Okay, thanks. Why also for systemd >=231? > >> If the ExecStart value contains a path to '/gnu/store/...', you should >> replace that path with >> '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon'. >> >> Using the absolute path to /gnu/store only works properly if the service >> file is a symlink to root's profile, in which case the executable path >> would get updated as root updates their packages. My suggested >> replacement will have the same effect. >> >> If you do that, make sure to recreate the rest of the ExecStart value >> after the path to the guix-daemon. > > Mmm, okay, I'll keep that in mind. > >> PS What OS are you using? I'm wondering if it's too early to rely on >> systemd 231 being widely deployed. > > This was the latest OpenSUSE (LEAP 42.2) that I'm thinking of using at > work. At home I use Gentoo but without systemd so I should not have > any issues there.
There exists a package (and service) for Gentoo in the youbroketheinternet-overlay, but I no longer maintain it. Improvements welcome, especially for the service which can slow down shutdown / reboot to 30 minutes and more. I no longer use Gentoo, but contributions are easy and welcome. Maybe we can get the openrc one day generic enough to include it in Guix. I no longer use Gentoo so I can't test. The way most people who use Gentoo here seem to have done it is using not the package. At least one person in IRC uses Guix on Gentoo (ZombieChicken ?). > >> PPS It's "Guix", without all capital letters :) > > Huh, yes, I don't know why I made it all caps. :-) And systemd doesn't > have any caps either. What is this world coming too! ;-) > > -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 PGP keys and more: https://n0is.noblogs.org/ http://ng0.chaosnet.org
