Re: Install and reinstall issues on Fedora 34

[Joshua Branson]

Sébastien Pierre <sebastien.pierre@nzx.com> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> I am evaluating Guix and am running into some issues getting it to work
> under Fedora 34 Workstation. I followed the binary install instructions
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html>,
> running the install script from an interactive root shell. All went well, I
> rebooted the VM, but then guix-daemon failed to start:

So is Fedora running on the VM?  And you are running guix the package
manager on top of Fedora, which is inside a vm?  What are you running on
metal?  What operating system is touching your hard drives?

Just check the basics...GNU Guix, the package manager, should run on any
distro.  Yes Fedora's SELinux policy could be breaking some things...

>
> × guix-daemon.service - Build daemon for GNU Guix
>      Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>      Active: *failed *(Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-06-15 08:50:44
> NZST; 2 days ago
>     Process: 691
> ExecStart=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=guixbuild (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
>
> Jun 15 08:50:44 fedora systemd[1]: Started Build daemon for GNU Guix.
> Jun 15 08:50:44 fedora systemd[691]: guix-daemon.service: *Failed to locate
> executable* /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon:
> Permission den>
> Jun 15 08:50:44 fedora systemd[691]: guix-daemon.service: Failed at step
> EXEC spawning
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon: Permission
> de>
> Jun 15 08:50:44 fedora systemd[1]: guix-daemon.service: Main process
> exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
> Jun 15 08:50:44 fedora systemd[1]: guix-daemon.service: Failed with result
> 'exit-code'.
>
> It seems like a permission error, as the ExecStart path exists and resolves
> to the /gnu/store, which is ther. Manually running the command does work as
> well. I did try to replace the readlink -f'ed path in the SystemD service:
>
> ExecStart=/gnu/store/0iii8i1lc4wg3wccs1db7y7d8lg80i04-guix-1.3.0/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=guixbuild
>
> But the same Permission Denied/Failed to locate issue remains. I know that
> Fedora uses SELinux which sometimes causes some problems, but I'm not sure
> about how to resolve that.
>
> Help would be appreciated :)
>
> Many thanks
>
> Sebastien

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