Hi, On 2024-01-05 15:05:38 +0100, Sébastien Lerique wrote: > Hi Guix! And dear helpers and devs, > > I'm running into a weird failure of home-syncthing-service-type. > > Running syncthing manually from the terminal works fine (here's an example > log: <https://pastebin.com/1dLMKkyK>). > > So I Ctrl-C syncthing, then add home-syncthing-service-type to my > home-configuration > <https://gitlab.com/wehlutyk/guix-config/-/blob/master/home-configuration.scm> > (bottom lines). > > After restarting, home-syncthing-service-type fails synchronizing because it > bases all user folders inside /root, to which it doesn't have writing > rights. This happens whether all syncthing configurations in > `.local/state/syncthing` had been removed in the meantime or not. Here's a > log: <https://pastebin.com/14LwbvRn> > > Could this be a bug? A mistake in the configuration files?
After some digging in the source code, I managed to pinpoint the cause. Your
configuration does not set user nor home, which causes Guix to call (getpw #f).
That returns the root user. I would say this is a bug. The code probably
should be something like this (untested):
(or #$home (passwd:dir (getpw (if (and #$home-service? (not #$user))
(getuid) #$user))))
For your immediate problem, explicitly setting the (home) field in the
syncthing-configuration should help. I think.
Have a nice day,
Tomas Volf
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