Re: Install and reinstall issues on Fedora 34

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

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

> 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:

I suggest running the guix-daemon command manually first to 
diagnose this.

> 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.

There are really just two ways: either 1) disable SELinux (or set 
it to permissive mode) or 2) install/debug/reinstall the SELinux 
daemon policy that is included with Guix.

The daemon policy is *not* installed with the binary installation 
method because it is known to be incomplete.  You would need to 
get a copy of the Guix sources and configure it.  The file you 
want is called “etc/guix-daemon.cil”.  To debug it you would need 
to install it, set SELinux to permissive mode, run the daemon, and 
then check the audit log for errors.

If you just want to start playing with Guix *right now* I suggest 
temporarily disabling SELinux.

--
Ricardo