From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: permission denied: /gnu/store/...guile... Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 16:21:40 -0400 Message-ID: <871ti8nz1n.fsf@netris.org> References: <14d70199695.1243810498111.5252599218489536710@elephly.net> <87617knzbm.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54652) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvtS3-0005wG-Dc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 May 2015 16:21:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvtRz-00047u-Ce for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 May 2015 16:21:51 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:43932) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YvtRz-00047q-9O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 May 2015 16:21:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87617knzbm.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 22 May 2015 16:15:41 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: rekado Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > The problem turned out to be that on rekado's system, / was owned by > user "rekado" with mode 700. One possibility is that he created this filesystem from some nice GUI disk utility from Fedora, before running our USB installer. Perhaps 'guix system init' should explicitly set the ownership and permissions on the target root directory? Mark