Subject: bug#78272: closed (Re: bug#78272: The /tmp in a guix shell container is now read-only)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 10:32:06 +0000

Your bug report

#78272: The /tmp in a guix shell container is now read-only

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#78272: The /tmp in a guix shell container is now read-only
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Tomas Volf <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 12:30:24 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Tomas,

Tomas Volf <[email-masked]> writes:

> the /tmp in a shell container is not read only which seems to break a
> lot of things.  For example when I try to build Guix from source:
>
> $ guix time-machine -q --commit=4a32b83753b124169003589fae42eff03ff482cc -- shell -CD guix -- ./bootstrap 
> [..]
> + autoreconf -vfi
> autoreconf: cannot create /tmp/ar9117.8: Read-only file system

Fixed in edc799dabfb059735f1a3084384925fe573d9de1, thanks!

Ludo’.

Subject: The /tmp in a guix shell container is now read-only
From: Tomas Volf <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 23:47:30 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

the /tmp in a shell container is not read only which seems to break a
lot of things.  For example when I try to build Guix from source:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine -q --commit=4a32b83753b124169003589fae42eff03ff482cc -- shell -CD guix -- ./bootstrap 
[..]
+ autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: cannot create /tmp/ar9117.8: Read-only file system
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Passing the new --writable-root works around the problem.

Tomas

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