From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: How to properly use channels? (my 'guix pull' throws error) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 12:07:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvm4psox.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0szvfft.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g7Hb2-0003YU-SE for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 06:08:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g7Hay-0006i3-Pj for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2018 06:08:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d0szvfft.fsf@gmail.com> (Hebi Li's message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:31:50 -0500") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Hebi Li Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Hello, Hebi Li skribis: > Hi guys, s/guys/people/ :-) > I was trying to use Marius's channel [1] for Chromium. However, > following Marius's instruction, when my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm is > in place, 'guix pull' throws me this error: > > guix pull: error: failed to load '/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm': > system/base/compile.scm:144:21: In procedure compile-file: > failed to create path for auto-compiled file > "/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm" Could it be that ~/.cache/guile/=E2=80=A6 is read-only or owned by a differ= ent user? As a test you could try to =E2=80=9Crm -rf ~/.cache/guile=E2=80=9D. This i= s the place where Guile stores object files resulting from auto-compilation. HTH, Ludo=E2=80=99.