Reconfiguring does not create home directories

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  • Andreas Enge
  • Ludovic Courtès
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Andreas Enge wrote on 30 Sep 2020 13:53
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Hello,

when adding new users to a Guix system configuration and reconfiguring,
their home directories are not created. It has happened a few times when
creating accounts for interns on bayfront, and it has happened right now
with Danny's account on dover.

This behaviour seems to contradict the documentation at

Andreas
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 5 Oct 2020 15:49
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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 11 Oct 2020 17:28
Re: bug#43720: Reconfiguring does not create home directories
(name . Andreas Enge)(address . andreas@enge.fr)(address . 43720-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Hi,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

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> when adding new users to a Guix system configuration and reconfiguring,
> their home directories are not created. It has happened a few times when
> creating accounts for interns on bayfront, and it has happened right now
> with Danny's account on dover.

I can confirm it with 7607ace5091aea0157ba5c8a508129cc5fc4f931:
‘user-homes’ is not restarted. If we look at the
‘upgrade-shepherd-services.scm’ file generated for the system, it reads:

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(begin
(use-modules
(gnu services herd)
(srfi srfi-1))
(parameterize
((shepherd-message-port
(%make-void-port "w")))
(load-services/safe
(quote
("/gnu/store/cl33si9nbny96p2chf3swcl1l6pbxdr3-shepherd-file-systems.scm" …))))
(for-each unload-service
(quote
()))
(for-each start-service
(quote
())))

I believe cda046b3eaeb60f756fa4964c4b2721a2d680192 fixes it.
The bug was probably there since commit
5c793753b31b1dcd9a554bce953124f7ae88ca9a (July 2019).

Thanks!

Ludo’.
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