Hi, <pki...@runbox.com> skribis:
> It looks like line 16205 (at the bottom pretty much) shows that a permissions > issue is the culprit: > > openat(AT_FDCWD, > "/home/itsme/.cache/guix/checkouts/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/.git/FETCH_HEAD", > O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_CLOEXEC, 0666) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > That file, along with is owned by root and is in the root group, and > permissions are set to `-rw-r--r--`. > > It looks like this is caused by me running a guix command as root, with `sudo > -E` (the -E is probably why it's modifying ownership of files in my user's > guix cache directory), that checks out the git commit (I assume since it's > only changing the ownership on those two files, the rest in that directory > are owned by my user). > > Changing the owner of that file back to my user has made the error go away > when running `guix package -n -m example-manifest.scm` - and if i then run > that command again with 'sudo -E', the ownership of those files is changed > back to root. Great that you found out! Commits 70a50305c495ca96fdec3d31e7e7972cfc54f8ee and 1d8b10d00f0c242bc5ce9540737af3d3f24a05c0 fix error reporting in this case: you now get an error message mentioning Git and the invalid permissions on a file in ~/.cache/guix/checkouts. Thanks, Ludo'.