Subject: bug#35274: guix unable to pull or reconfigure as root

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:55:14 +0200

Hello,

<[email-masked]> skribis:

> $ guix describe
> Generation 7    Apr 14 2019 14:46:29    (current)
>   guix cabe8f1
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: cabe8f18443a0a1deb6f2ae7d8f4a6fb591daceb
>
> # guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-8.7ba2b27

Could you run ‘guix pull’ as root using your user’s ‘guix’ command?

You can do that with:

  ~USER/.config/current/bin/guix pull

(Replace “USER” with the actual user name.)

Ludo’.