October 8, 2022 4:51 AM, "Ricardo Wurmus" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Joshua Branson <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> But do the same in a geiser repl, and I am running into trouble:
>> 
>> #+BEGIN_SRC org
>> ,m (gnu services mail)
>> scheme@(gnu services mail)> ,use (guix)
>> scheme@(gnu services mail)>
>> While executing meta-command:
>> ERROR:
>> 1. &store-connection-error:
>> file: "/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket"
> 
> Is this the location where your guix-daemon listens for connections? If
> not you’ve configured your Guix with the wrong localstatedir and/or prefix.

Ahh!  duh!  I compiled guix via ./configure; make;  

The fix was as you said ./configure --localstatedir=/var   

Thanks for the help.  I owe you a crisp hive five at the next guix
conference!

> 
> --
> Ricardo

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