GNU bug report logs - #26158
GNOME starts unreliably

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Package: guix;

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

Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:48:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Joshua Branson <bransoj <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: "26158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <26158 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#26158: I can only start an X server in guix as root
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:29:54 +0200

Hi,

(- help-guix.)

Joshua Branson <bransoj <at> hotmail.com> skribis:

> I've responded to this email on the guix-bugs emailing list located 
> here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26158
>
> I did try a guix system vm /path/to/config-file.scm;  and I could still 
> not log into guixSD.

In the VM the password for users other that root is uninitialized.  So
you must first log in as ‘root’, for instance on a tty, run “passwd
joshua”, and only after that will you be able to log in.

Could you check if that helps?

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.
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