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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: Fail to configure home-directory
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:52:24 +0200
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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=E2=80=99s a bug that should be fixed now:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D82b71ac366ef15440=
0653d264b46b7aa3520f393

> 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=E2=80=99.