From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hilco Wijbenga Subject: SystemD & Symbolic Links Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:14:42 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLeTx-0005VE-Cc for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:15:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLeTw-0003Ek-GV for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:15:05 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22d]:35475) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cLeTw-0003EV-8V for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 18:15:04 -0500 Received: by mail-lf0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id b14so178880225lfg.2 for ; Mon, 26 Dec 2016 15:15:04 -0800 (PST) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hi all, I would like to use GUIX to organise my home directory but unfortunately when I install GUIX it does not work because SystemD (228 in my case) refuses to allow symlinks. Specifically, "systemctl enable guix-daemon" fails with "Failed to execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links" (see [1]). Is there a workaround for this? I suppose I could simply copy guix-daemon.service into /etc/systemd/system instead of linking to it but I'm not sure how many other things will fail because of this symlink limitation. Cheers, Hilco [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation