Re: Problem installing Guix on OpenVZ host that uses zfs

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:07:30PM +0200, Stefan Reichör wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried today to install Guix v12.0 on an OpenVZ hoster:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
> 
> But I failed with the following problem:
> 
> ~/bin% ./guix package -i hello
> The following package will be installed:
>    hello        2.10    /gnu/store/rvs42awwwby7pq3j0znglmz3vyznvbh1-hello-2.10
> 
> The following derivations will be built:
>    /gnu/store/3rjlwl02c69c71jdcjcp96r41byqbv54-profile.drv
>    /gnu/store/va7p6kn3c5836aw0risjxc0m6s3cj5jx-ca-certificate-bundle.drv
>    /gnu/store/qbx513w8j5ikrjjnn2pv7qq91zmpylw8-fonts-dir.drv
>    /gnu/store/9b7gxm83y7x4ps2mimp6jpfzx7hjypvd-info-dir.drv
> guix package: error: build failed: while setting up the build environment: 
> unable to make filesystem `/' private: Permission denied

This comes from DerivationGoal() in 'nix/libstore/build.cc'.

I'm not sure what it's trying to do with `/' and I'm also not familiar
with that rather long function, so can you try attaching to the daemon
with strace [0] and letting us know exactly where it fails?

[0] Something like:
$ strace -f -p $(pgrep guix-daemon | head -n1)

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