When running "guix home container test-config.scm" (attached) the following warning appears on screen: warning: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR doesn't exists, on-first-login script won't execute anything. You can check if xdg runtime directory exists, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable is set to appropriate value and manually execute the script by running '$HOME/.guix-home/on-first-login' I don't know if on-first-login does anything useful when run in the container, but the warning looks scary. A lot of users don't hit it because they run shepherd which creates XDG_RUNTIME_DIR in the process of creating a command socket. I think that "guix home container" should create XDG_RUNTIME_DIR by itself, since there is no logind in the container. This warning was discussed before in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56758. There was also this IRC discussion https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2023-12-27.log#083824 that prompted me to file this bugreport.