I have followed the example setup in the latest Guix manual for the rootless-podman-service setup. I am getting this message when reconfiguring: making ‘/var/guix/profiles/system-22-link’ the current system… populating /etc from /gnu/store/pfwv8lddz58xdncvq5b4xiqxiljai062-etc… setting up privileged programs in ‘/run/privileged/bin’… # > My setup looks like this: (services (append (list ;; ... ;; Services for podman ___________________________________________ (service dbus-root-service-type) (service elogind-service-type) (service iptables-service-type (iptables-configuration (ipv4-rules (plain-file “iptables.rules” %iptables-rules) ))) (service rootless-podman-service-type (rootless-podman-configuration (subgids (list (subid-range (name “jesse”)))) (subuids (list (subid-range (name “jesse”))))))) %base-services))) I’m actually trying to troubleshoot a weird situation where after doing a system reconfigure with this setup all of these services run (iptables, elogind, etc). However when I reboot, my current profile is pointing to an old one not the one that is reported to be getting activated during the system reconfigure. This is the only error message I see and was thinking maybe it is causing an issue. Does this error message mean anything?

Did you also update your user config? I don’t see it in the config you provided. Your user needs to be in cgroup group, I think. See: Podman on guix (rootless-podman-service-type) - #6 by wegei8

Yep I have that: (user-account (name "jesse") (comment "Administrator") (group "users") (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "audio" "video" "netdev" "cgroup" )))

Setting up subuid and subgid ranges with rootless-podman-service

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moonling August 17, 2025, 3:04am 4

I think I have this figured out over here: Guix Generation Persistence - #9 by moonling

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Setting up subuid and subgid ranges with rootless-podman-service

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