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'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps from "Running Guix Before It Is Installed" page |
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Mon, 9 Sep 2019 02:49:17 +0200 |
Hi, I'm a new Guix user and I wanted to hack on Guix and update a
package, I hadn't known exactly how to do this, so I started following
instructions from
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed.html#Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed
and
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/
The situation started to be interesting, when the tutorial told me to
run "cd $GUIX_CHECKOUT" and "./pre-inst-env guix package
--list-available=ruby"
I was confused, because I couldn't find any "./pre-inst-env" file, so I
used 'find' to search for it and there were one file with a similar name
in $GUIX_CHECKOUT/build-aux - ./pre-inst-env.in (as I'm composing this
email now I see that's stupid, but I tried using this file, as I don't
know what I was doing (still don't know))
So I started running the following stupid commands:
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user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix [env]$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env.in
guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
sudo: /gnu/store/z26h622slm8p61myhk45v3jjg8p7qm8z-profile/bin/sudo must
be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix [env]$ ./pre-inst-env.in
bash: ./pre-inst-env.in: No such file or directory
user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix [env]$ cd build-aux/
user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix/build-aux [env]$ sudo
-E ./pre-inst-env.in guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
sudo: /gnu/store/z26h622slm8p61myhk45v3jjg8p7qm8z-profile/bin/sudo must
be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix/build-aux [env]$ exit
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And then:
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user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix/build-aux$ chmod +x ./pre-inst-env.in
user@machine ~/Prog/repo/guix/build-aux$ sudo -E ./pre-inst-env.in
guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild Password:
./pre-inst-env.in: line 33: cd: @abs_top_srcdir@:
there is no such file or directory
./pre-inst-env.in: line 34: cd:
@abs_top_builddir@: there is no such file or directory
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And after that I couldn't run "guix
environment" anymore, it threw an error:
guix environment: error: failed to connect to
`/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': Connection refused
Restarting the computer helps, but doing the same stuff breaks it
again, so guess it's reproducible.
After doing it I ran the "history" command so you can know what I did
exactly (some commands were unfortunately run in an environment and I
can't provide them), here it is:
371 git clone --recurse-submodules
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
372 guix environment guix --pure
373 sudo -E
374 sudo --help
375 guix environment guix --pure
376 guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc sudo
377 ls
378 cd guix/
379 ls
380 cd build-aux/
381 ls
382 .
383 guix environment guix --pure
384 chmod +x ./pre-inst-env.in
385 sudo -E ./pre-inst-env.in guix-daemon
--build-users-group=guixbuild
386 ls
387 cd ..
388 ./configure
389 guix environment guix --pure
390 history
As stupid and complicated as it is, something is definitely broken
here.
Sincerely,
Jan Wielkiewicz
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