Re: guix package -i error on another account after system reconfigure

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Yoshinori Arai <kumagusu08@gmail.com> writes:

> I mean New Account is new user account that is added by last system
> reconfiguration.
>
> user1 --- old account is made at first installation
>
> user1@hostname ~$ which guix
> /home/user1/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
>
> user1@hostname ~$ ls -l /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user1/current-guix
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user1/current-guix -> current-guix-5-link
>
> user1@hostname ~$ ls -l /var/guix/profiles/per-user/yoshi/current-guix-5-link
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/yoshi/current-guix-5-link ->
>                  /gnu/store/xh71xqfcbbwsaqakvf6787pdwclkqv6w-profile
>
> user2, user3 are new users.
> after su user2 ...
>
> user2@hostname ~$ which guix
> /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix
>
> user2@hostname ~$ ls -l /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user2/
> current-guix -> current-guix-1-link
> current-guix-1-link -> /gnu/store/1qwy6c7b4axjaz8fyy1plg29p47slina-profile
>
> This status is after guix pull but finished on error.
>
> su user3 ...
>
> user3@hostname ~$ which guix
> /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix
>
> user3@hostname ~$ ls -l /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user3/
>      current-guix -> current-guix-0-link
>
> ls -l /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user3/current-guix-0-link
> ls: '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/user3/current-guix-0-link' にアクセスできません:
> そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません --- can't access. no file or
> directory.
>
> This status is before guix pull.
>
> I will delete new users by userdell command and also delete
> /var/guix/profile/per-user/user2,user3 then do system reconfigure again before
> full reinstallation.

You don’t need to delete those user accounts.

The new users are using the system-wide Guix at
/run/current-system/profile/bin/guix, which appears to be broken.  So
you could let user2 and user3 use user1’s Guix, which you said is
working fine.

as user2 just run

    /var/guix/profiles/per-user/user1/current-guix/bin/guix pull

and you should then get a new Guix that works fine.

Same with reconfigure.  Run that with the working Guix to get a new Guix
for the whole system which doesn’t suffer from this problem.

-- 
Ricardo