Re: Compiling guix 0.3 on a fedora 8 planetlab node

[Matthias Wachs]

> How did it complain exactly?  Is it running as ‘root’, as per
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Setting-Up-the-Daemon>?
> 
> The ability to run build processes in a chroot and under separate UIDs
> is essential to achieve reproducibility.

The basic issue is: 
I cannot add a builder group since on these machines I don't have the
"groupadd" command ... limitations of the image/testbed

So when starting the daemon with:

address@hidden ~]$ sudo guix-daemon
warning: daemon is running as root, so using `--build-users-group' is
highly recommended
accepted connection from pid 13641, uid 1376
245 operations

The client prints:

guix package -i make
<removed>
substituter-succeeded 
/nix/store/qhkvy39118lccxxsnrwjb9xp7s4627py-make-3.82-debug
guix package: error: build failed: unable to fork: Operation not
permitted


> > Thanks a lot for your effort any!
> > I'll let you know about progess installing gnunet with guix!
> 
> Sure, let us know about any problems you may have.  Thank you!
> 
> Ludo’.

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