From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fail to configure home-directory
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:52:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7utwuif.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muyuhebp.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:08:50 +0530")
Hello,
Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> skribis:
> I'm hitting issues when setting the home folder.
>
> The default home is /home/ambrevar. If I change `home-directory' to
> "/foo" and run `guix system reconfigure' then "/foo" is created but the
> home folder is still "/home/ambrevar".
Oops, that’s a bug that should be fixed now:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=82b71ac366ef154400653d264b46b7aa3520f393
> Furthermore, I cannot mount a filesystem as /home:
>
> ```
> (file-system
> (device "home")
> (title 'label)
> (mount-point "/home")
> (type "ext4"))
> ```
>
> Running `guix system reconfigure' hangs after the `usermod...' changes.
> Not sure about how to print more debug details.
Does /var/log/messages or /var/log/shepherd.log have more info?
TIA,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-27 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-26 18:38 Fail to configure home-directory Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-27 12:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-03-28 18:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-31 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-01 13:16 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-03 11:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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