binary installation on Fedora 25

binary installation on Fedora 25

[Catonano]

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On a fresh installation of Fedora 25 I am trying to do a binary
installation of Guix

When attempting

systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon

I get

Failed to start guix-daemon.service: Unit guix-daemon.service not found.

Now:

$ ls -lha /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 58 27 gen 14.18
/etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service ->
/root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service

Several times selinux complained that some process was trying to read some
file unduly.

I blindly copied and pasted the lines to instruct selinux to not care. I
might have taken something wrong. But I m not able to troubleshoot selinux
policies.

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Hartmut Goebel]

Hi,

Am 27.01.2017 um 15:54 schrieb Catonano:
> $ ls -lha /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 58 27 gen 14.18
> /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service ->
> /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service

AFAIK systemd changed its behaviour and does not longer accept symlinks
for .service files.

cp /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
/etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service

should fix the problem.

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Catonano]

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Hartmut,

2017-01-27 17:07 GMT+01:00 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Am 27.01.2017 um 15:54 schrieb Catonano:
> > $ ls -lha /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 58 27 gen 14.18
> > /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service ->
> > /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
>
> AFAIK systemd changed its behaviour and does not longer accept symlinks
> for .service files.
>
> cp /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
>
> should fix the problem.
>
> --
>

thank you

It didn't fix it.

No error was raised but when trying to install the hello package some
socket couldn't be found, as if the daemon was not running

But that wasn't the only problem

This line

# ln -sf /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile \
         ~root/.guix-profile

didn't raise an error and yet didn't create the link to the root profile

Ok, this idea of going back to Fedora (Ubuntu turned out to be not exactly
a good idea) was not successful

For now, I'll leave it at that.

Thanks anyway

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 27.01.2017 um 21:22 schrieb Catonano:
> No error was raised but when trying to install the hello package some
> socket couldn't be found, as if the daemon was not running

Did you actually reload systemd and start the daemon?

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Catonano]

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2017-01-28 17:28 GMT+01:00 Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>:

> Am 27.01.2017 um 21:22 schrieb Catonano:
> > No error was raised but when trying to install the hello package some
> > socket couldn't be found, as if the daemon was not running
>
> Did you actually reload systemd and start the daemon?
>

I set it to "permissive" mode rather than "enforcing", I don' t know how to
restart selinux

The result is the same

Ok, it doesn' t matter anyway. I' ll stay on Ubuntu. For now

The best solution would be to have an rpm package for Fedora so that Fedora
users could use the vanilla system tools to install Guix

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 05:07:34PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 27.01.2017 um 15:54 schrieb Catonano:
> > $ ls -lha /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 58 27 gen 14.18
> > /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service ->
> > /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> 
> AFAIK systemd changed its behaviour and does not longer accept symlinks
> for .service files.

My understanding is the opposite; that systemd only supports symlinked
service files in recent releases.

Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Marius Bakke]

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Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:

> On a fresh installation of Fedora 25 I am trying to do a binary
> installation of Guix
>
> When attempting
>
> systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon
>
> I get
>
> Failed to start guix-daemon.service: Unit guix-daemon.service not found.
>
> Now:
>
> $ ls -lha /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 58 27 gen 14.18
> /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service ->
> /root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service
>
> Several times selinux complained that some process was trying to read some
> file unduly.

I think SELinux needs to be disabled, since we don't have any policy for
the Guix daemon at the moment. Can you try that and report back?

Perhaps a note should be added to the manual if this fixes it.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> writes:
[…]
>> Several times selinux complained that some process was trying to read some
>> file unduly.
>
> I think SELinux needs to be disabled, since we don't have any policy for
> the Guix daemon at the moment. Can you try that and report back?

After FOSDEM I could take a look at this and see if I can come up with a
simple SELinux policy.  I don’t think it’s good to suggest SELinux be
disabled (other than as a workaround).

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Ricardo

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