bug#50941: I can confirm this bug too

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 03:01:52AM -0400, jgart via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
wrote:
> I was going to report this today but Pascal beat me to it.
> 
> I get the same error when running `guix home reconfigure file.scm`.
> 
> `guix home build file.scm` builds fine without errors.

Can you try setting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to someplace that you have writable
and then running reconfigure again? I have to warn you though I don't
have a good answer for what to do if it works this time and doesn't work
if you log out and log back in again.

> Here's the config that I tested that with:
> 
> ```
> (use-modules (gnu home)
>              (gnu packages) 
>              ;(guixrus packages guix-easy) 
>              (gnu packages bash)
>              (gnu packages mail)
>              (gnu packages messaging)
>              (gnu packages password-utils)
>              (gnu packages guile)
>              (guixrus packages bower)
>              (gnu packages guile-xyz)
>              (gnu packages wget)
>              (gnu packages version-control)
>              (guixrus packages bower)
>              (gnu packages emacs))
> 
> ;;(define* (pkgs #:rest lst)
> ;;  (map specification->package+output lst))
> 
> (define-macro (define-tools group-name . group-package-names)
>   "custom helper for defining groups of packages"
>   `(define ,group-name
>      (map (compose list specification->package+output)
>           ',group-package-names)))
> 
> (define-tools jgart-profile "emacs-minimal" "offlineimap3" 
>    "guile-pipe" "bower" "guile-colorized" "guile-readline" "tig"
>    "git" "gajim" "gajim-omemo" "keepassxc" "wgetpaste")
> 
> (define jgart-packages
>   (home-environment 
>    (packages (list tig wgetpaste))))
> 
> jgart-packages
> ```
> 
> 
> 3B1D 7F19 E36B B60C 0F5B 2CA9 A52A A2B4 77B6 DD35
> 
> 
> 

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