From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Wette Subject: bug#39194: help for non-root users to start using Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:48:02 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itEh5-0000Oq-Ek for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:49:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itEh4-0008T9-Fh for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:49:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:37862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itEh4-0008T4-Cz for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:49:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1itEh4-0003fo-AI for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:49:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1itEgG-0000Fu-81 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:48:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itEgB-0008G1-5h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:48:09 -0500 Received: from mail-pf1-x436.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::436]:38754) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1itEgA-0008FX-Uq for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 12:48:07 -0500 Received: by mail-pf1-x436.google.com with SMTP id x185so14595355pfc.5 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:48:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.183] (64-52-176-132.championbroadband.com. [64.52.176.132]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i8sm36868147pfa.109.2020.01.19.09.48.03 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:48:04 -0800 (PST) Content-Language: en-US List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 39194@debbugs.gnu.org This guix-1.0.1 on x86_64 Fedora 30. After installing as root, it's not clear from the manual how users should start. I found out "guix pull" is the right thing. Maybe add that to the manual? (Or add a "guix init" command.) Here is the error that I get w/o "guix pull": [mwette@localhost ~]$ guix install hello Backtrace:            8 (primitive-load "/usr/local/bin/guix") In guix/ui.scm:   1813:12  7 (run-guix-command _ . _) In ice-9/boot-9.scm:     829:9  6 (catch _ _ # ?)     829:9  5 (catch _ _ # ?) In guix/scripts/package.scm:    948:10  4 (_) In guix/status.scm:     768:4  3 (call-with-status-report _ _) In guix/scripts/package.scm:    956:14  2 (_) In guix/build/syscalls.scm:   1127:14  1 (call-with-file-lock/no-wait _ # ?) In ice-9/boot-9.scm:     777:6  0 (throw "open-file" "~A: ~S" ("No such file or direc?" ?) ?) ice-9/boot-9.scm:777:6: In procedure throw: In procedure throw: Wrong type argument in position 1: open-file