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From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>, 50945@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
Subject: bug#50945: Guix home: No such file or directory: "/run/user/1003/on-first-login-executed"
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:05:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilygllp7.fsf@yoctocell.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y27czr0v.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Fri, Oct 01 2021, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When using su or sudo to enter an account managed by guix home, I get
> this error
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Backtrace:
>            2 (primitive-load "/home/guix/.guix-home/on-first-login")
> In ice-9/ports.scm:
>    461:11  1 (call-with-output-file "/run/user/1003/on-first-login-…" …)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (open-file "/run/user/1003/on-first-login-executed" "w" …)
>
> ERROR: In procedure open-file:
> In procedure open-file: No such file or directory: "/run/user/1003/on-first-login-executed"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Upon a console login or ssh login, /var/run/1003 is created and all is fine.
>
> See below for the scenario, home-minimal.scm is attached.
>
> Greetings,
> Janneke

[ Cc Andrew who did most of the work on Guix Home ]

I think this is because Guix Home relies on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to be
defined, otherwise it falls-back to /run/user/UID.  But it looks like
/run/user/UID isn’t created when using ‘su’ to login.  I don’t really
know how these things work under the hood; maybe using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
isn’t best idea.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-01 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-01 15:46 bug#50945: Guix home: No such file or directory: "/run/user/1003/on-first-login-executed" Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2021-10-01 17:05 ` Xinglu Chen [this message]
2021-10-07  5:21 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-11-05 16:58   ` Xinglu Chen
2021-11-08  9:24     ` Andrew Tropin
2021-11-14 22:11       ` Ludovic Courtès

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