bug#23220: Users' home is not created when initializing with a LUKS /home

[Ludovic Courtès]

merge 23220 21108
thanks

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> When initializing a new GuixSD system with /home on an encrypted
> partition (as described in the manual), unprivileged users' home
> directories are not created.
>
> I initialized the system with the encrypted partition locked and
> unmounted, but <kyamashita> from #guix had the same problem even though
> they had unlocked and mounted the partition.

Right, see <http://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.

> Of course, root can create the directories once the new system has
> booted, but none of the configuration files are there, which means the
> environment is not what is expected (my PATH was '/bin:/usr/bin').

In which case did you get this value of PATH?

> I worked around the problem by removing my user from the operating
> system configuration, reconfiguring, putting my user back in the
> configuration, and reconfiguring again.

Definitely not great.

Thanks,
Ludo’.