Re: SSH error guix pull

[Mauritz Stenek <mstenek@disroot.org>]

On 2023-12-01 at 07:12, Wojtek Kosior <koszko@koszko.org> wrote:

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> Hi
>
>> However, on a full Guix system I keep getting this error:
>> 
>> ```
>> guix pull: error: Git error: error authenticating: no auth sock 
>> variable
>> ```
>> 
>> and, for the life of me, I just can't get it to work.
>
> Maybe you're not running ssh user agent daemon under your user? 
> You
> need it for this to work.
>
> You can probably spawn it in a number of ways.  One of them 
> would be
> through Guix home.  See this[1] Guix manual node for info about
> ssh-agent's home service :)
>
> Also, you're not running `guix pull` with sudo, are you?  It 
> wouldn't
> work this way because sudo erases environment variables, 
> including
> "SSH_AUTH_SOCK".
>
> Btw, on my fully Guixified laptop I am using Guix home without
> ssh-agent configured and yet I do have ssh-agent running under 
> my user.
> I'm not sure what started it…

Seems like that is the situation. I actually tried to run the 
ssh-agent user service example in the shepherd manual 
(https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Managing-User-Services.html) 
-- verbatim -- and I get this error:

```
Starting service root...
Service root started.
Service root running with value #t.
Service root has been started.
Uncaught exception while loading configuration file 
'/home/mst/.config/shepherd/init.scm': (goops-error #f "No 
applicable method for ~S in call ~S" (#<<generic> service-actions 
(1)> (service-actions shepherd)) ())
```

which I don't know how to fix.

Other than that example, I'm at a loss with ssh.

>
>> (disclaimer: I'm a total scheme/guile neophyte -- and am 
>> learning 
>> as I go)
>
> As all of us, haha :D

:D

>
> Btw, there's perhaps another solution — pull from local git 
> checkout.
> You can pass a filesystem path instead of a url when running 
> `guix
> pull`. This might later cause some issues if you try to `sudo 
> guix
> system reconfigure` but that's another topic…

I was able to install a package like this but it's not ideal.

> Good luck and happy hacking!

Thanks! I can tell you, it is a journey.

> Wojtek
>
> [1] 
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Secure-Shell.html
>
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> On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:47:43 -0600 Mauritz Stenek 
> <mstenek@disroot.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying out Guix and created a personal (private) channel 
>> with 
>> some custom packages. I access my git repo with ssh.
>> 
>> Using Guix on a foreign distro, pulling from my git repo works 
>> fine after applying this strategy: 
>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31285.
>> 
>> However, on a full Guix system I keep getting this error:
>> 
>> ```
>> guix pull: error: Git error: error authenticating: no auth sock 
>> variable
>> ```
>> 
>> and, for the life of me, I just can't get it to work.
>> 
>> (disclaimer: I'm a total scheme/guile neophyte -- and am 
>> learning 
>> as I go)
>> 
>> Please help.
>> 
>
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