Re: Installing guix on nixos system

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:15:53PM +0000, Roy Lemmon wrote:
> I am trying to install guix on my nixos system. I am using the shell script
> provided on the guix installation page:
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh
> 
> All works well until the script tries to install the guix-daemon service.
> It cannot install it in /etc/systemd/system and so the daemon cannot be
> started. See below.
> 
> Has anyone come across this problem ? I thought /etc filesystem was
> writeable as that is where configuration.nix lives.

Did you try installing the guix-daemon.service file by hand? Did you
check the permissions of '/etc', and '/etc/systemd', etc?

Did you try putting the guix-daemon.service in root's systemd service
directory, '/root/.config/systemd'?