bug#50941: Potential bug in guix home

[Oleg Pykhalov]

Hi,

Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 01 2021, Pascal Lorenz wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I assumed user privileges should be enough for guix home, but guix
>> home reconfigure home.scm returns this result:
>>
>> /gnu/store/…-home
>> guix home: error: mkdir: permission denied
>>
>>
>> This happens in a fresh and up to date VirtualBox VM with the only
>> changes being a few installed packages (emacs, vim & tmux) and the
>> guix home configuration.
>>
>
> Does the issue happen if you run ‘guix home build home.scm’?

I guess I reproduced this.  No, guix home build has no errors.

reconfigure requires /run/user directory which doesn't produced by
%base-services, but %desktop-services with [1] probably does.

[1] (service-extension file-system-service-type (const %elogind-file-systems))

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