On Jul 18, 2015 5:13 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> "Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org> skribis:
>
> > However
> >
> >       ./pre-inst-env guix package -i hello
> >
> > Gives me
> >
> >       guix package: error: build failed: the build users group
`guix-builder' has no members
> >
> > But, but, I do have a group `guix-builder`
> >
> > I think the problem may be that my guix-builder group was defined in
NIS whereas its members are not in NIS.
>
> What does ‘getenv group guix-builder’ return?  It should show something
> like:

Typo: getent, not getenv.

>
guixbuild:x:30000:guixbuilder01,guixbuilder02,guixbuilder03,guixbuilder04,guixbuilder05,guixbuilder06,guixbuilder07,guixbuilder08,guixbuilder09,guixbuilder10
>
> Each build account must have ‘guix-builder’ in its supplementary group
list.
>
> > The daemon is running as user `guix` on host  ${GUIXHOST}
>
> The daemon really needs to run as root, if possible:
>
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Environment-Setup.html