2018-03-15 21:47 GMT+01:00 Muto <shack@muto.ca>:

> Hello,
>
> I am running the Guix package manager on Ubuntu (17.10), but whenever I
> try to do anything as a non-root user, I get an error:
>
> failed to connect to `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': Connection
> refused
>
> I've tried this for every command listed in 'guix -h'
> I can 'chmod -R 777 /var' or 'chmod -R 777 /gnu' but these seem to do
> nothing.
>
>
> I get the same "Connection refused" error both on using 'sudo' and with
> using Guix as the root account. I can still run all of the programs I
> installed via Guix, I just cannot use the package management utility
> anymore.
>
> I'm sorry to be a bother, but I've been a little frustrated with Guix
> lately and I could not find a viable solution online.
>

that's why the help liist exists, no bother :-)

Sounds like your daemon is not running

Wold you mind to paste the otput of

ps -e | grep guix

In case it's not running, thhere's an excerpt in the manual about how to
make it run

It's the step no. 5 in the "Binaty Installation" chapter

It's strange that your daemon is not running

Maybe you used the experimental script in order to install your guix ?

Anyway, paste te output of that line, then we'll see how to procede

Hope this hepls !
Ciao :-)



> --
> Thank you in advance. -Muto
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>
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