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Subject: Re: Overrding the localstatedir
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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Hi!

And happy new year to everyone, where applicable!  :-)

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> After a while I run "guix package -i guix" which installs just fine.

(Note that there=E2=80=99s little point in doing that since it gives you the
same version that you just installed.  If you wanted to use the latest,
run =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 instead (info "(guix) Invoking guix pull").)

> But sadly now guix is broken.  Wheneve I run any command I get:
>
>  guix package: error: failed to connect to `/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket=
': No such file or directory
>
> Shouldn't we have a --localstatedir option or an environment variable so =
that guix knows where to find its state
> dir?

There is one already.  Among other things, it tells the Guix clients
(all the =E2=80=98guix=E2=80=99 commands) where to find the daemon socket, =
and it tells
the daemon where to find its database that describes what=E2=80=99s in the
store.

Presumably, the problem you have here is that the Guix you installed by
hand had a different $localstatedir than the other one.  The =E2=80=98guix=
=E2=80=99
package in Guix is built with --localstatedir=3D/var.

Could you check that?

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.