Re: How to properly use channels? (my 'guix pull' throws error)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Hebi Li <address@hidden> skribis:

> Hi guys,

s/guys/people/ :-)

> I was trying to use Marius's channel [1] for Chromium. However,
> following Marius's instruction, when my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm is
> in place, 'guix pull' throws me this error:
>
> guix pull: error: failed to load '/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm':
> system/base/compile.scm:144:21: In procedure compile-file:
> failed to create path for auto-compiled file
> "/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm"

Could it be that ~/.cache/guile/… is read-only or owned by a different
user?

As a test you could try to “rm -rf ~/.cache/guile”.  This is the place
where Guile stores object files resulting from auto-compilation.

HTH,
Ludo’.