Re: Environment containers

[Alex Vong]

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?

Thanks!

> Thanks for bring the UX issues to my attention!
>
> - Dave
>
>