Hi,

On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:50:39 +0100
Allan Adair <allan@adair.io> wrote:

> After a fresh boot:
> 
> allana@guixsd ~$ docker ps
> Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
> allana@guixsd ~$ sudo herd status dockerd
> Password: 
> Status of dockerd:
>   It is stopped.
>   It is enabled.
>   Provides (dockerd).
>   Requires (containerd dbus-system elogind file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/devices file-system-/sys/fs/cgroup/memory networking udev).
>   Conflicts with ().
>   Will be respawned.
> allana@guixsd ~$ sudo herd start dockerd
> Service dockerd could not be started.
> herd: failed to start service dockerd

In a way that's good that this failure is reproducible so well.

"herd start dockerd" would do:

$(guix build docker)/bin/dockerd -p /var/run/docker.pid

For debugging, can you please try invoking the latter instead
of "herd start dockerd" ?

After that, please try

$(guix build docker)/bin/dockerd -p /var/run/docker.pid -D