Re: Last-minute testing
Andy Patterson ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca skribis: I tested it out last night. I got it to install; it boots fine; I can log in as root; things work. Unfortunately I left out a password in my config.scm for the user account I wanted to create. I tried changing this quickly with passwd, but this caused the session manager to fail when logging in as the user. This was because a home directory wasn't created for my user; once I added one manually I was able to log in. I also tried guix system reconfigure with a password added to config.scm, but this failed when installing new packages. Unfortunately I've lost the specific message I received; I can try it again tonight. It might be nice to document for users that a password should be supplied in the config file; I initially had hoped it would be empty. As it turns out, ‘root’ is initialized with an empty password, and for other users, you shouldn’t use the ‘password’ field of up ‘user-account’. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html tries to make that clear, but perhaps there’s misleading info somewhere? Also, the user’s home directory should definitely be created automatically. Thanks for your feedback! Ludo’.
Re: Last-minute testing
Quoting Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org: As it turns out, ?root? is initialized with an empty password, and for other users, you shouldn?t use the ?password? field of up ?user-account?. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html tries to make that clear, but perhaps there?s misleading info somewhere? Ah, ok. The only reason I thought it might be wrong was because it didn't work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack of a home directory) as I was writing the email. Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created automatically. My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these in config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) before system init? Thanks, Andy
Re: Last-minute testing
Adam Pribyl pri...@lowlevel.cz skribis: On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: Quoting Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org: As it turns out, ?root? is initialized with an empty password, and for other users, you shouldn?t use the ?password? field of up ?user-account?. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html tries to make that clear, but perhaps there?s misleading info somewhere? Ah, ok. The only reason I thought it might be wrong was because it didn't work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack of a home directory) as I was writing the email. Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created automatically. My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these in config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) before system init? Thanks, Andy I have a password and (home-directory /home/user) in users list for some time. This works OK. Right, the empty string is OK. Home dirs are not created by default and this sets password to empty. Home directories *are* created by default, but they are created at “activation time”, which means on the first boot or upon ‘guix system reconfigure’. Ludo’.
Re: Last-minute testing
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca wrote: Quoting Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org: As it turns out, ?root? is initialized with an empty password, and for other users, you shouldn?t use the ?password? field of up ?user-account?. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/User-Accounts.html tries to make that clear, but perhaps there?s misleading info somewhere? Ah, ok. The only reason I thought it might be wrong was because it didn't work right away. I actually figured out the problem (the lack of a home directory) as I was writing the email. Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created automatically. My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these in config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) before system init? Thanks, Andy I have a password and (home-directory /home/user) in users list for some time. This works OK. Home dirs are not created by default and this sets password to empty. Adam Pribyl
Re: Last-minute testing
ajpat...@uwaterloo.ca skribis: Quoting Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org: [...] Also, the user?s home directory should definitely be created automatically. My partition layout has separate /, /home, /boot. I specified these in config.scm, but should I have also mounted them (or at least /home) before system init? No no. I think you found a genuine bug: ‘useradd’ (which creates the home dirs) is invoked typically during boot, at a time where /home is not mounted yet. Thus, it probably created the home directory on the root file system. There’s no trivial fix, though. Could you email that to bug-g...@gnu.org so we keep track of it? Thanks, Ludo’.
Re: Last-minute testing
On 2015-07-20 19:48, l...@gnu.org wrote: Hello, I would be grateful if someone could test this installation image within the next 18 hours (ouch! shame on me!): http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 31f4eef6523509a567b250adafdaf086be5f47a6 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz.sig Apart from the URL, the instructions at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html should still be valid. TIA. :-) Ludo’. Great work :) -- Daniel Pimentel (d4n1 3:)
Re: Last-minute testing
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello, I would be grateful if someone could test this installation image within the next 18 hours (ouch! shame on me!): http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 31f4eef6523509a567b250adafdaf086be5f47a6 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz.sig Apart from the URL, the instructions at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html should still be valid. TIA. :-) I am not following the development thoroughly, here is my quick one: 1. downloaded, unpacked, put on USB 2. USB boots on a real hw 3. my older config.scm needs changes: a) dbus and dbus-service unknown, removed them (I should probably use desktop-services?), b) supplementary-groups separated by space instead comma 4. system installs and boots ok Thats it. Ludo’. Adam Pribyl
Re: Last-minute testing
Adam Pribyl pri...@lowlevel.cz skribis: I am not following the development thoroughly, here is my quick one: 1. downloaded, unpacked, put on USB 2. USB boots on a real hw 3. my older config.scm needs changes: a) dbus and dbus-service unknown, removed them (I should probably use desktop-services?), Yes, they are in (gnu services desktop) now, and yes, you could use ‘%desktop-services’ I suppose. b) supplementary-groups separated by space instead comma I don’t think this has changed. This should still be: (user-account ;; ... (supplementary-groups '(a b c))) 4. system installs and boots ok Excellent. Thank you for testing! Ludo’.
Last-minute testing
Hello, I would be grateful if someone could test this installation image within the next 18 hours (ouch! shame on me!): http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 31f4eef6523509a567b250adafdaf086be5f47a6 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3pre.x86_64-linux.xz.sig Apart from the URL, the instructions at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html should still be valid. TIA. :-) Ludo’. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
