Re: guix environment: error: cannot create container: unprivileged user cannot create user namespaces

[yasu <yasu@yasuaki.com>]

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Hi Pj,

Thank you for you reply (and your wonderful Hacking Guide 
https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org)!

I tried the command and it didn't work...
I use Guix System (not  a foreign distribution) as described at the
bottom :-)

-Yasu


On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 19:55 +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 05:32:08PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > Have you tried to do the recommandation?
> > 
> >      please set /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone to "1"
> 
> As root:
> 
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
> 
> Yes, it is common on Debian and such.
> 
> Pj.

root@guix ~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
-bash: /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone: No such file or
directory

root@guix ~# guix system describe
Generation 5631	Dec 05 2020 09:09:16	(current)
  file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-5631-link
  canonical file name: /gnu/store/qqzk4kvrhxjcia3hcq3xqrcdi36azzz9-
system
  label: GNU with Linux 5.9.12
  bootloader: grub-efi
  root device: label: "my-root"
  kernel: /gnu/store/9a93vpq4aa1c3adiaaa3blwc18r9r7zz-linux-
5.9.12/bzImage
  channels:
    guix:
      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      branch: master
      commit: 86d635b85035086d21c319f31f628761df5c82e5
    nonguix:
      repository URL: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
      branch: master
      commit: b08ea529d4d36468b20ef4aff6dc87b3de0eff70
    guix-chromium:
      repository URL: https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium.git
      branch: master
      commit: 2de450b92e5f2624d4f964407686934e22239f7b
  configuration file: /gnu/store/hlma107m2004g6qq00ihm190am5mh9z0-
configuration.scm

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