Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:20:33 +0100 > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Efraim Flashner skribis: >> >> [...] >> >> The failure is: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> 21228 mount("none", "/tmp/guix-directory.5sVcGc//dev/pts", "devpts", MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC, "newinstance,ptmxmode=0666,mode=6"...) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) >> 21228 exit_group(1) = ? >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> The problem may be that the kernel does not support >> CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES. Could you check that in >> /proc/config.gz or similar? > > # CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES is not set QED. :-) However, the daemon needs it too. Don’t you have problems with guix-daemon as well, when building things locally on that machine? Ludo’.