Re: Guix home reconfigure fails with "In procedure symlink: permission denied"

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Nils,


Quoting Nils Landt (2024-06-06 11:02:31)
> > Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> hat am 06.06.2024 08:49 CEST geschrieben:
> > Quoting Simon Tournier (2024-06-04 21:24:10)
> > > On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 11:38, Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >            2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/fvly06ac6y0c01r8zavc2m1zfk6?")
> > > [...]
> > > >            0 (symlink "/gnu/store/676qwqy15al2zi7a5s4kb1lwjr6yxqpf-?" ?)
> > > [...]
> > > > # But files with longer names exist! Could the problem be the `?` caracter?
> > > > $ ls /gnu/store/fvly06ac6y0c01r8zavc2m1zfk6?*
> > > > /gnu/store/fvly06ac6y0c01r8zavc2m1zfk6pvhn9-files-builder
> > > >
> > > > $ ls /gnu/store/676qwqy15al2zi7a5s4kb1lwjr6yxqpf-?*
> > > > /gnu/store/676qwqy15al2zi7a5s4kb1lwjr6yxqpf-config
> […]
> I think /gnu/store/676qwqy15al2zi7a5s4kb1lwjr6yxqpf-config is a file you
> generate, right? Using home-files-service-type, or some service that extends
> it.
> If so, try to see where you want it to be symlinked to. Maybe the target file
> exists twice in your guix home configuration, or it exists in your home
> directory but is owned by root?

mmmm… 🤔… oh, you’re right! 😁

The content of `*-file-builder` was not super helpful, but the content of
`*-config` looked a lot like my Sway configuration. So, I checked and…
I found a conflict, indeed! Thanks!!
Even though, IMHO, the error handling could be improved… a little.

Oh and reverting to a previous version of my config file didn’t help for
the problem came from a new file, recursively copied from a folder.

Case closed! Thanks again!

-- 
Tanguy