From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: bug#22962: Something keeps overwriting /etc/hosts Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:28:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20160310002811.0b59a57f@scratchpost.org> References: <20160309214232.027164e0@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnXN-00058m-4b for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:29:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnXJ-0003ss-Vy for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:29:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:44887) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adnXJ-0003sk-Th for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:29:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1adnXJ-0006ab-Kj for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 18:29:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160309214232.027164e0@scratchpost.org> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: 22962@debbugs.gnu.org If I make it immutable, I get the following message on guix system reconfigure ... : guix system: error: copy-file: Permission denied: "/etc/hosts" Aha!