From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: Environment containers Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:11:32 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87y4epsnjs.fsf@T420.taylan> 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]:50802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqwXm-0005sp-0N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:11:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqwXk-00068t-Tq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:11:33 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::232]:34729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqwXk-00068j-OQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:11:32 -0400 Received: by iody8 with SMTP id y8so54119664iod.1 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:11:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel On 26/10/2015, Thompson, David wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer > wrote: > >> Also, for Debian 8 users and maybe others, this might help: >> >> sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=3D1 > > Yes, user namespaces are a must-have for this to work. I will prepare > patches that mention this in the manual and add a test to 'guix > environment' that can detect if user namespaces are unavailable and > display a more helpful error message. > I think the patch could be considered a fix for as well. How do you think? Thanks! > Thanks for bring the UX issues to my attention! > > - Dave > >