Subject: bug#37347: 'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps from "Running Guix Before It Is Installed" page

From: Jelle Licht <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:15:56 +0200

Bengt Richter <[email-masked]> writes:

> [snip]
> ...
> [19:40 ~/bs]$ ping guix.gnu.org
> ping: guix.gnu.org: Name or service not known
I actually have this sometimes as well. Are you on a less-than-stellar
WiFi-connection perhaps? I noticed the default (nscd?) configuration on
Guix systems caches 'negative' results for quite a while.

Could you try this command again after issuing:
`sudo herd invalidate nscd hosts'?

HTH!
- Jelle