GNU bug report logs - #23274
Misleading error message when running guix-daemon as unprivileged user

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 01:23:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
Cc: 23274 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23274: Misleading error message when running guix-daemon as unprivileged user
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:35:50 +0100

Hi Martin,

Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de> skribis:

> “Address already in use” makes me directly think that there is already
> another daemon running. Strangely, starting another daemon as root
> works. It seems to take the socket from the other daemon away. Is this
> intended? Or can two daemons run in parallel without problems?

What you’re seeing here is the error return by bind(2) while trying to
bind the listening socket to /var/guix/daemon-socket/socket.
guix-daemon doesn’t try to interpret the error in any way, it just shows
you what the OS reported.

So I’m not sure there’s really an issue here.

WDYT?

Ludo’.
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