run the daemon

run the daemon

[Catonano]

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Hello,

I'm trying to do the binary installation of guix, following instructions
here
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"

Which daemon ?

There's no guix-daemon in my system and there isn't one in the tar.xz file
I downloaded.

What a I missing ?

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run the daemon

[Catonano]

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Hello,

I'm trying to do the binary installation of guix, following instructions
here
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"

Which daemon ?

There's no guix-daemon in my system and there isn't one in the tar.xz file
I downloaded.

What a I missing ?

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Re: run the daemon

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to do the binary installation of guix, following instructions
> here
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

Thanks for trying!

> The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"
> 
> Which daemon ?

If you followed steps 1 through 4, you will have created a symlink to root's
guix-profile in root's home directory.

Accordingly, you can start the daemon like this, as described in step 5:

# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild

Does that work?

If not, can you double-check that '~root/.guix-profile' exists and
points to the correct place? You should be able to do something like
this:

# whoami
root
# ls -l ~/.guix-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Aug 14  2015 /root/.guix-profile -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile
# ls -l ~/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon 
lrwxrwxrwx 4 root guixbuild 78 Dec 31  1969 /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon -> /gnu/store/b4d41s3066gx6wjkpq505sc4rkbjmdf1-guix-0.10.0-0.7611/bin/guix-daemon

By the way, since guix-daemon is a daemon, it will block and appear to
do nothing when you start it. Just mentioning this since some users have
been confused the daemon's behavior.

Re: run the daemon

[Catonano]

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Leo,

2016-04-09 0:48 GMT+02:00 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>:

> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
>
> Thanks for trying!
>
> > The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"
> >
> > Which daemon ?
>
> If you followed steps 1 through 4, you will have created a symlink to
> root's
> guix-profile in root's home directory.
>
> Accordingly, you can start the daemon like this, as described in step 5:
>
> # ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
>
> Does that work?
>
> If not, can you double-check that '~root/.guix-profile' exists and
> points to the correct place? You should be able to do something like
> this:
>

Thank you so much, Leo, I had just misread the instructions, sorry for the
fuss.


> By the way, since guix-daemon is a daemon, it will block and appear to
> do nothing when you start it. Just mentioning this since some users have
> been confused the daemon's behavior.
>

Thanks for your good sense. In fact I would have been confused by such
behaviour !

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Re: run the daemon

[Leo Famulari]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> Leo,
> 
> 2016-04-09 0:48 GMT+02:00 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for trying!
> >
> > > The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"
> > >
> > > Which daemon ?
> >
> > If you followed steps 1 through 4, you will have created a symlink to
> > root's
> > guix-profile in root's home directory.
> >
> > Accordingly, you can start the daemon like this, as described in step 5:
> >
> > # ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
> >
> > Does that work?
> >
> > If not, can you double-check that '~root/.guix-profile' exists and
> > points to the correct place? You should be able to do something like
> > this:
> >
> 
> Thank you so much, Leo, I had just misread the instructions, sorry for the
> fuss.

I'm happy to help! Please don't hesitate to ask any more questions,
either here or on the Freenode IRC channel #guix.