dear Guix,
my ultimate goal is to run Home Assistant (a python based service) from
Shepherd.
packaging it seems to be too much effort, so i looked into running it in a
`guix shell --container`. it works fine when done from the terminal:
$ su - hass
$ guix shell --manifest=manifest.scm --container --emulate-fhs --network
--share=/srv/hass
$ cd /srv/hass && source bin/activate && LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/lib64 hass 2>&1
| tee /var/log/home-assistant.log
(specifications->manifest
'("python"
"python-virtualenv"
"python-pytzdata"
"autoconf"
"openssl"
"libxml2"
"libxslt"
"libjpeg"
"libffi"
"eudev"
"zlib"
"pkg-config"
"ffmpeg"
"gcc-toolchain"
"git"
))
now, i've converted this to a Shepherd service like this:
(simple-service
'home-assistant
shepherd-root-service-type
(list
(shepherd-service
(requirement '(file-systems networking guix-daemon))
(provision '(home-assistant))
(documentation "")
;; TODO herd stop doesn't work
(start
#~(lambda _
(fork+exec-command
(list #$(file-append guix "/bin/guix")
"shell"
"--manifest=manifest.scm"
"--container"
"--emulate-fhs"
"--network"
"--share=/srv/hass"
"--"
#$(file-append bash "/bin/bash")
"-c" "cd /srv/hass && source bin/activate &&
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/lib64 hass")
#:log-file "/var/log/home-assistant.log"
#:user '#$(user-account-name *hass-user*)
#:group '#$(user-account-group *hass-user*)
#:supplementary-groups
'#$(user-account-supplementary-groups *hass-user*)
#:environment-variables
(list (string-append "HOME=/home/"
#$(user-account-name *hass-user*)))))))))
but this errors out:
guix shell: error: mkdir: Permission denied:
"/tmp/guix-directory.sfpIhA/real-root"
should this work, or am i holding it wrong?
or should it be done some other way? any examples around?
if it should work, then any hints on what to look at for a fix? grepping for
'real-root' brings up MOUNT-FILE-SYSTEMS in linux-container.scm, but i couldn't
find anything obviously broken there.
sidenote: debugging this would be a lot easier if the error wasn't reduced to
the above line, but instead a general error handler printed a backtrace.
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