On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 08:42:05PM +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > $ uname -srvo > Linux 4.4.0-22-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 22:03:46 UTC 2016 GNU/Linux
I'd guess that Ubuntu, like Debian, by default disables the unprivileged creation of containers. What is the value of '/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone'? > [dev] $ ./pre-inst-env strace -f -s 234 -o log guix environment --container > --ad-hoc --bootstrap guile-bootstrap -- guile -c '(exit 42)' > guix environment: error: failed to connect to > `/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory I think this is unrelated. If you followed the instructions in the manual while installing Guix [0], then your daemon's socket should be in /var/guix. When building Guix from the Git checkout, did you set the value of localstatedir like this when configuring? $ ./configure --localstatedir=/var If not, it defaults to '/usr/local'. If that's what happened, can you reconfigure as shown above, and try Ludo's command again? [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation
