From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: permission denied: /gnu/store/...guile... Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:24:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9r7bfo7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <14d70199695.1243810498111.5252599218489536710@elephly.net> <3f67e7b73e8054a756edf7cdc68cd036@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51201) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yv32z-0001UF-3h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2015 08:24:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yv32t-0000UY-Ts for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2015 08:24:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3f67e7b73e8054a756edf7cdc68cd036@openmailbox.org> (Daniel Pimentel's message of "Wed, 20 May 2015 08:24:12 -0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Daniel Pimentel Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guix-devel-bounces+d4n1=opmbx.org@gnu.org Daniel Pimentel skribis: > I have similar problem, I think. My problem was permission to write > (using sudo) in /gnu/store/ when I needed to enable my correct > synaptics (I copied 50-synaptics.conf file to > /gnu/store/.../xorg.conf.d/), so I needed remount /gnu/store/ (sudo > mount -o remount,rw /gnu/store) to copy this file. Files in /gnu/store must never be modified, because the whole system assumes it is indeed immutable. For this reason, /gnu/store is a read-only bind-mount on GuixSD. The solution for Synaptics would be to augment the Xorg service definition in (gnu services xorg) so that it does the right thing. What exactly is needed? Ludo=E2=80=99.