Re: run the daemon

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 11:25:18PM +0200, Catonano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to do the binary installation of guix, following instructions
> here
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html

Thanks for trying!

> The point no. 5 says: "Run the daemon [...]"
> 
> Which daemon ?

If you followed steps 1 through 4, you will have created a symlink to root's
guix-profile in root's home directory.

Accordingly, you can start the daemon like this, as described in step 5:

# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild

Does that work?

If not, can you double-check that '~root/.guix-profile' exists and
points to the correct place? You should be able to do something like
this:

# whoami
root
# ls -l ~/.guix-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 Aug 14  2015 /root/.guix-profile -> 
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile
# ls -l ~/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon 
lrwxrwxrwx 4 root guixbuild 78 Dec 31  1969 /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon 
-> 
/gnu/store/b4d41s3066gx6wjkpq505sc4rkbjmdf1-guix-0.10.0-0.7611/bin/guix-daemon

By the way, since guix-daemon is a daemon, it will block and appear to
do nothing when you start it. Just mentioning this since some users have
been confused the daemon's behavior.