Re: guixbuild does not exist???

[Konrad Hinsen]

Hi Ricardo and Marius,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> I’m guessing that NSCD is not running.  You might need it on some
> systems.

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:

> This has to do with the recent update to glibc 2.26.  It no longer
> builds the "nss_compat" library, which causes problems on distributions
> that only has 'compat' in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
> There is some discussion about it here: <https://bugs.gnu.org/30298>.
>
> The workaround is to either install 'nscd', or update nsswitch.conf to
> include 'files' (or similar) as a fallback (for "group" in this case).

Thanks to both of you for the crucial hint. After installing nscd,
I can now again use Guix!

Konrad.