Re: Environment containers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:

> On 26/10/2015, Thompson, David <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Also, for Debian 8 users and maybe others, this might help:
>>>
>>>     sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
>>
>> Yes, user namespaces are a must-have for this to work.  I will prepare
>> patches that mention this in the manual and add a test to 'guix
>> environment' that can detect if user namespaces are unavailable and
>> display a more helpful error message.
>>
> I think the patch could be considered a fix for
> <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21410> as well. How do
> you think?

Do you still experience the test failures mentioned in that report?  If
not, could you email address@hidden, specifying which commit
works for you?

I suspect 0e3cc31 helped.

Thanks,
Ludo’.