guix home reconfigure on a fresh system fails

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wolf wrote on 22 Feb 2023 16:40
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Hi,

I'm trying to setup a Guix machine. I did clean install using guix system init,
I can provide the config, but it does not seem to be relevant. After that I
decided to try the guix home reconfigure command, and it ended with:

guix home: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wolf': Permission denied
hint: Please create the `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wolf' directory, with you as the owner.

The workaround I used was to just install any random package:

guix install coreutils
guix remove coreutils

After that running

guix home reconfigure config.scm

started to work just fine. However that does not seem like proper way, but more
like a workaround. I was adviced on IRC to report it, so here I am.

W.

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Andrew Tropin wrote on 24 Feb 2023 14:01
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On 2023-02-22 16:40, wolf@wolfsden.cz wrote:

Toggle quote (23 lines)
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup a Guix machine. I did clean install using guix system init,
> I can provide the config, but it does not seem to be relevant. After that I
> decided to try the guix home reconfigure command, and it ended with:
>
> guix home: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wolf': Permission denied
> hint: Please create the `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wolf' directory, with you as the owner.
>
> The workaround I used was to just install any random package:
>
> guix install coreutils
> guix remove coreutils
>
> After that running
>
> guix home reconfigure config.scm
>
> started to work just fine. However that does not seem like proper way, but more
> like a workaround. I was adviced on IRC to report it, so here I am.
>
> W.

This happens because of this call, which can't create a directory in
root owned /var/guix/profiles:

1. Actually, this call is usually unecessary as the creation of directory
for per-user profiles handled by daemon.

2. However, in some circumstances (when used custom $GUIX_STATE_DIRECTORY)
daemon doesn't handle this properly, so probably because of it this line
was added:

I moved it to a place, where connection to store is already openned, so
it work in both scenarios (first one is covered by the daemon, second
one by this call).

Ideally, it would be cool to fix on the daemon side and remove this call
at all.

CCed Ludo, Tobias, Oleg.

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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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Tomas Volf wrote on 9 Jan 17:58 +0100
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