Re: GUIX installation / uninstallation problem

[Hans-Werner Roitzsch <hwroitzsch@posteo.net>]

Hi Giovanni!

The problem is already solved, but thanks for your message!

The solution was to _restart_ the daemon. According to systemctl status
it was still running, but it needed a restart nevertheless. I think I
described it in my follow-up e-mail : )

Thanks!

Hans

On 4/25/19 4:45 PM, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
> Hello Hans-Werner,
>
> Hans-Werner Roitzsch <hwroitzsch@posteo.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> But then I started to see the actual problem. When I tried installing
>> the locales following the installation of Guix an error with the guix
>> daemon socket came up:
>>
>> =====
>> guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
>> guile: warning: failed to install locale
>> hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales'
>> package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:
>>
>>     guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
>>     export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
>>
>> See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
>>
>>
>> guix package: error: failed to connect to
>> `/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory
>> =====
> it seems guix-daemon service is not running: can you check it?
>
> you should see a process like this one:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (anemone)giovanni@anemone:~$ ps aux | grep guix-daemon
> root      2444  0.0  0.0  12216   412 ?        Ss   Mar22   0:00 /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I installed Guix on Debian with the binary installation bash script
> provided upstream and it installed the right systemd service; if
> guix-daemon is not running on your system you should double check the
> manual
>
> [...]
>
> HTH! Gio'
>