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 privileg…

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

Guix

moonling August 17, 2025, 3:04am 4

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

Topic		Replies	Views
Podman on guix (rootless-podman-service-type) Guix	5	472	July 31, 2025
Getting podman working with oci-container Guix guix	1	145	September 25, 2025
Guix Generation Persistence Guix	12	329	October 15, 2025
Rootless Podman support coming to the Guix System Guix	7	679	September 3, 2024
User with UID 1000 not found - foreign musl distro Guix guix	6	45	May 9, 2026

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

Related topics