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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:59:01 +0100
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Hi Ricardo and Marius,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> I=E2=80=99m guessing that NSCD is not running.  You might need it on some
> systems.

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> This has to do with the recent update to glibc 2.26.  It no longer
> builds the "nss_compat" library, which causes problems on distributions
> that only has 'compat' in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> There is some discussion about it here: <https://bugs.gnu.org/30298>.
>
> The workaround is to either install 'nscd', or update nsswitch.conf to
> include 'files' (or similar) as a fallback (for "group" in this case).

Thanks to both of you for the crucial hint. After installing nscd,
I can now again use Guix!

Konrad.