From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Environment containers Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 11:58:35 +0100 Message-ID: <87r3kgwpb8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y4epsnjs.fsf@T420.taylan> 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]:45686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr1xg-000779-Td for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:58:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr1xd-0005YA-OT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 06:58:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Alex Vong's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:11:32 +0800") 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: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel Alex Vong skribis: > On 26/10/2015, Thompson, David wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer >> wrote: >> >>> Also, for Debian 8 users and maybe others, this might help: >>> >>> sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=3D1 >> >> Yes, user namespaces are a must-have for this to work. I will prepare >> patches that mention this in the manual and add a test to 'guix >> environment' that can detect if user namespaces are unavailable and >> display a more helpful error message. >> > I think the patch could be considered a fix for > as well. How do > you think? Do you still experience the test failures mentioned in that report? If not, could you email 21410@debbugs.gnu.org, specifying which commit works for you? I suspect 0e3cc31 helped. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.