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bug#26158: I can only start an X server in guix as root


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#26158: I can only start an X server in guix as root
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:29:54 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

(- help-guix.)

Joshua Branson <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've responded to this email on the guix-bugs emailing list located 
> here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26158
>
> I did try a guix system vm /path/to/config-file.scm;  and I could still 
> not log into guixSD.

In the VM the password for users other that root is uninitialized.  So
you must first log in as ‘root’, for instance on a tty, run “passwd
joshua”, and only after that will you be able to log in.

Could you check if that helps?

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.





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