"user with UID not found" error

[Christopher Batten <cbatten@cornell.edu>]

Hello GUIX community!

I am a new guix user, and we are enjoying using guix our research and teaching. However, ever since I installed guix on our server I have been seeing this error:

  % guix pull
  user with UID 317241 not found

Things still worked so I didn't think much of it. However, whenever I try to use --container with guix shell I get this odd error:

  % guix shell -D -C hello
  user with UID 317241 not found
  Backtrace:
          14 (primitive-load "/home/cb535/.config/guix/current/bin/g?")
In guix/ui.scm:
   2238:7 13 (run-guix . _)
  2201:10 12 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1752:10 11 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
  1752:10 10 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In guix/store.scm:
   659:37  9 (thunk)
   1298:8  8 (call-with-build-handler _ _)
   1298:8  7 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f76707d57e0 at g?> ?)
In guix/status.scm:
    815:4  6 (call-with-status-report _ _)
In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
   953:13  5 (_)
In guix/store.scm:
  2168:25  4 (run-with-store #<store-connection 256.99 7f767075e7d0> ?)
In guix/scripts/environment.scm:
   638:34  3 (_ _)
In unknown file:
           2 (getpw 317241)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
  1685:16  1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
  1685:16  0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)

  ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
  In procedure getpw: entry not found

The error messages mention of (getpw 317241) resulting in an "entry not found" makes me think these two issues are related? Maybe this is some kind of bad guix install? I am using CentOS 7.9.2009. Any thoughts or advice?

A maybe related but maybe unrelated issue is now I am seeing this:

  % guix pull
  user with UID 317241 not found
  guix pull: error: failed to load '/home/cb535/.config/guix/channels.scm': Permission denied

This didn't use to happen so I am not sure why this is happening now? I can definitely access channels.scm just fine directly.

  % ls -la /home/cb535/.config/guix/channels.scm
 -rw-rw-r--. 1 cb535 pug-cb535 288 Jun 24 09:26 /home/cb535/.config/guix/channels.scm

  % cat /home/cb535/.config/guix/channels.scm
  (use-modules (guix ci))
  (list
  (channel
   (name 'gn-bioinformatics)
    (url (string-append "https://git.genenetwork.org/"
          "guix-bioinformatics/guix-bioinformatics.git"))
   (branch "master"))
  (channel-with-substitutes-available
    %default-guix-channel "https://ci.guix.gnu.org"))

Any thoughts or advice greatly appreciated!

Best,
Chris

----------------------

Christopher F. Batten

Associate Professor
Computer Systems Laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University

email : cbatten@cornell.edu
web   : http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~cbatten
addr  : 323 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
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