Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

[Thorsten Wilms]

On 30/10/2018 19.16, Laura Lazzati wrote:
>         At the same time, a `sudo guix pull` works fine.
>
>
>     Thanks for this finding.
>
> Sorry, I thought this fixed it for me too, but now every time I run an 
> installed package, I get that guix is 18 days old,  asks me to guix 
> pull, and if I run even the hello package, i get that it is not 
> installed and claims to install it with, in my case, apt.

Sorry Laura, I did not mean to suggest that this was a fix. It's just 
that `guix pull` for the root profile stayed functional. My own plain 
user `guix pull` still results in the same old:

Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: 
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil/current-guix-1-link"


Looking for an explanation for having user and root profile guix, since 
you seem to be unaware of how that works and I can't be sure of my own 
understanding, I found something related:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-10/msg00014.html

Thing is, I did
`ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix
/usr/local/bin/guix`
during installation and that symlink is still intact. Yet, `guix pull` 
and `sudo guix pull` are markedly different.


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