Re: Symlink: permission denied

[Ludovic Courtès]

Chris Dale <address@hidden> skribis:

> guix package -i hello
> ;;; note: source file /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.scm
> ;;;       newer than compiled /usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.go
> ;;; found fresh local cache at
> /home/captain/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-8-2.0/usr/local/share/guile/site/2.0/guix/config.scm.go
> accepted connection from pid 21254, uid 1000
> The following package will be installed:
>    hello-2.8 out /nix/store/7g06kqdm6qjbzdppnryyvjl2bz82r8dh-hello-2.8

[...]

>  259: 1 [switch-symlinks
> "/usr/local/var/nix/profiles/per-user/captain/guix-profile-1-link" ...]
> In unknown file:
>    ?: 0 [symlink
> "/nix/store/4www5cda3gkswbirp05bs9jjgnagi1g5-user-environment" ...]
>
> ERROR: In procedure symlink:
> ERROR: In procedure symlink: Permission denied

/usr/local/var/nix/profiles/per-user/captain should be owned, readable,
and writable by ‘captain’.  Could you check whether this is the case?

> Sorry to be "that guy", but this happened.

Heh, no problem!  Clearly, this shows that Guix is not production ready,
and gives us a chance to identify bugs and problems that newcomers
encounter.

In this case, once we’ve identify the cause of the problem, we’ll have
to fix the manual and/or ‘guix package’ so it provides a helpful error
message instead of that backtrace.

> I pulled the code that Lud pushed that fixed the substituter bug, and
> it went swimmingly --- many binaries were substituted until this one
> happened.

This is good news.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.