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.