Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[Björn Höfling]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:30:43 +0200
nightowl  wrote:

> OK, I see the new version 60 now after running the 'guix pull'
> command. I tried running the 'guix package -u' command but does not
> do any upgrade.  I have the icecat package called out in my
> config.scm file, so I think I need to run the 'guix system
> reconfigure' command to make an upgrade to that package.  Does that
> make sense?  I will try this tomorrow and let you know if it upgrades
> ok and if it fixes the tab crash problem.

If you have the package in your system definition, that is exactly what
you have to do.

Björn


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Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[nightowl]

OK, I see the new version 60 now after running the 'guix pull' command.  
I tried running the 'guix package -u' command but does not do any 
upgrade.  I have the icecat package called out in my config.scm file, so 
I think I need to run the 'guix system reconfigure' command to make an 
upgrade to that package.  Does that make sense?  I will try this 
tomorrow and let you know if it upgrades ok and if it fixes the tab 
crash problem.




On 27.09.2018 04:26, Mike Gerwitz wrote:

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:36:40 +0200, nightowl wrote:
I am currently using version 52.6.0 (64bit). That looks like the 
latest
released version.  The guix package command also reports this as the 
latest

version.  How do you get to version 60?


Run `guix pull' before `guix package -u`.  The latest version is 
60.2.0-gnu1.

How to properly use channels? (my 'guix pull' throws error)

[Hebi Li]

Hi guys,

I was trying to use Marius's channel [1] for Chromium. However,
following Marius's instruction, when my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm is
in place, 'guix pull' throws me this error:


--8<---cut here---start->8---
guix pull: error: failed to load '/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm':
system/base/compile.scm:144:21: In procedure compile-file:
failed to create path for auto-compiled file
"/home/hebi/.config/guix/channels.scm"
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

My guix version is > 0.15:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
guix (GNU Guix) 0.15.0-3.3d43017
Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

The channel feature should be available, as I have the file
~/.guix-profile/share/guile/site/2.2/guix/channels.scm. Is there
anything I did wrong when using channels?

[1] https://gitlab.com/mbakke/guix-chromium

-- 
Hebi

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[Mike Gerwitz]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:36:40 +0200, nightowl wrote:
> I am currently using version 52.6.0 (64bit). That looks like the latest
> released version.  The guix package command also reports this as the latest
> version.  How do you get to version 60?

Run `guix pull' before `guix package -u`.  The latest version is 60.2.0-gnu1.

-- 
Mike Gerwitz


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Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

[nightowl]

I am currently using version 52.6.0 (64bit). That looks like the latest 
released version.  The guix package command also reports this as the 
latest version.  How do you get to version 60?



On 26.09.2018 07:03, Mike Gerwitz wrote:

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:38:33 +0200, nightowl wrote:
I am running GuixSD on a 2008 model Dell Inspiron with I believe to be 
an
Intel T5300 core 2 CPU.  I have only just started using GuixSD for 
less than
a year now, and still on the learning curve.  So, do you think the tab 
crash

I see with Icecat could be related to the hardware on my PC?


I had experienced tab crashes with IceCat for certain sites that used
JavaScript, like meet.jit.si.  I just upgraded to IceCat 60 and it now
appears that I have no issues with that site.

Can you try upgrading and see if that fixes your problems?

Re: damaged installation

[znavko]

Hello, carl hansen!
I had alike thing, and Ludovic Cortes answered here 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2018-09/msg00151.html
Trying to boot with another kernel, as I think, guix used other workable 
derivation and I could to update with `guix pull` there.

> I installed guix 0.15 on Debian testing system
> Power went out while 'guix pull'ing or something.
> Now, show stopper error. Attached. How to proceed?

Re: Other web-browser for tor

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi,

please always keep the mailing list in Cc.

> I have not yet configured wpa_supplicant + dhclient services to
> connect to Wifi on GuixSD on startup, cause I cannot imagine how to
> type config.scm.
[…]
> Default NetworkManager is overabundant for me. I type every time: `su
> - && ./go` where 'go' has lines to up the wifi and to connect via
> wpa_supplicant and dhclient.  And after that I type from non-root user
> `tor`.

That seems very inconvenient.

Your system’s config.scm contains a “services” field.  To add Tor as a
system service and use GNOME you only need this:

  (services (cons* (tor-service)
   (gnome-desktop-service)
   %desktop-services))

For XFCE replace the “gnome-desktop-service” with
“xfce-desktop-service”.  %desktop-services includes networking with
NetworkManager, which you should configure either using “nmtui” or
through the graphical user interface provided by the desktop
environment.

You don’t configure the Wifi settings in config.scm.

We provide template configuration files in the gnu/system/examples
directory of the Guix source tree.

--
Ricardo

Re: Other web-browser for tor

[znavko]

Hello!
> > Which other free software browser can work on socks4 proxy? On
> > trisquel I had Abrowser, but here it is only Icecat.
>
> Conkeror does.
>
> http://conkeror.org/Tips?highlight=(tor)#Browsing_through_Tor
>
> 
>
> WBR

Sorry, WBR, but Conkeror can't start


$ guix package -i conkeror
The following package will be installed:
   conkeror 1.1.0   
/gnu/store/1as3pf6ynv3045gd96yi4vv5l9hy4vhr-conkeror-1.1.0

69 packages in profile

$ whereis conkeror
conkeror: /gnu/store/w5jg89fwagzy18rsnf551jz5impabplp-profile/bin/conkeror

$ conkeror
JavaScript error: 
file:///gnu/store/1as3pf6ynv3045gd96yi4vv5l9hy4vhr-conkeror-1.1.0/share/conkeror/components/application.js,
 line 164: SyntaxError: missing ) after catch
JavaScript error: 
file:///gnu/store/1as3pf6ynv3045gd96yi4vv5l9hy4vhr-conkeror-1.1.0/share/conkeror/components/command-line.js,
 line 21: NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 
0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]
JavaScript strict warning: resource://gre/modules/ProfileAge.jsm, line 201: 
ReferenceError: reference to undefined property "reset"
*** UTM:SVC TimerManager:registerTimer called after profile-before-change 
notification. Ignoring timer registration for id: telemetry_modules_ping

Thanks for all the work to un-google'ify the Chromium package

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Especially because the Google'ification (in the privacy encroaching
sense) is getting worse (in Chrome at least, I can't tell if this
applies to Chromium as well):

  https://ha.x0r.be/posts/chrome-is-a-google-service/
  https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/

and

  
https://news.softpedia.com/news/chrome-69-does-not-delete-google-cookies-when-clearing-all-website-data-522884.shtml
  
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-promises-chrome-changes-after-privacy-complaints/

Re: Anyone having troubles with GRUB full disk decryption sometimes not decrypting?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber  writes:
>
>> Unfortunately, I have to sometimes try up to 30 times before it will
>> boot, because it either freezes at:
>>  - right after "Slot 0 unlocked"
>>  - right after the menu selection on the Grub menu is made, before
>>booting into the OS proper.
>
> I have not observed this on my laptop (Librem 13).

Yeah, so I think I have some kind of hardware fluke... my guess is the
hard drive (which I had upgraded).  Thanks for confirming that someone
else with roughly the same machine isn't experiencing this kind of weird
thing.

Re: Anyone having troubles with GRUB full disk decryption sometimes not decrypting?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello,
>
> Christopher Lemmer Webber  skribis:
>
>> The problem I have been having though, and it seems to be with increased
>> frequency, is that it frequently seems to freeze before booting.
>>
>> I can type in my passphrase, after about 10 seconds of waiting it will
>> say "Slot 0 unlocked."  Usually if things are ok, it goes to the Grub
>> menu screen and then it will boot from there... if I make it past the
>> Grub menu, everything is (mostly) fine.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have to sometimes try up to 30 times before it will
>> boot, because it either freezes at:
>>  - right after "Slot 0 unlocked"
>>  - right after the menu selection on the Grub menu is made, before
>>booting into the OS proper.
>
> Woow.  FWIW I’ve never experienced that on my UEFI/x86_64 laptop in the
> last couple of years.
>
> If you do find out more, I’d be curious to learn what it was!
>
> Ludo’.

My suspicion is something hard drive related.  (FWIW this isn't the
original hard drive that came with the laptop, I upgraded it.)

I'll try replacing that and see if I get better results... otherwise I
guess I'll hand it back into repairs.

Re: Frequent git repository corruptions

[Pierre Neidhardt]

> Is the file system corrupt?  (What does fsck say?)

All good.

> Did the system die without a proper shutdown?

Well, yes, a couple of times I suppose.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/


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Re: Frequent git repository corruptions

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Pierre Neidhardt  writes:

> For the past 2-4 weeks I've had at least 4 Git repositories that got
> corrupted for no apparent reason.  Even a checkout that I had never
> touched.
>
> When it happens, errors show up on most git commands, usually `git diff`
> but sometimes also `git status`:
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
>> git diff
> error: object file .git/objects/e0/1bd6c3c77309b13dab22f9e0de33576ede944f is 
> empty
> fatal: unable to read e01bd6c3c77309b13dab22f9e0de33576ede944f
> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>
> A quick Internet search led me to realize there is little to do to
> recover the corrupted repository beside cloning it again.  I haven't
> lost anything so far, knock on wood.
>
> My first thought was a hard drive issue.  I have a NVMe SAMSUNG
> MZVLW256HEHP.
> I ran some smartmontools test, everything looks fine.

Is the file system corrupt?  (What does fsck say?)
Did the system die without a proper shutdown?

-- 
Ricardo

Frequent git repository corruptions

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Hi Guix!

This might be unrelated to Guix but since I'm in the dark here, I
figured I'd rather ask, maybe someone ran into a similar issue.

For the past 2-4 weeks I've had at least 4 Git repositories that got
corrupted for no apparent reason.  Even a checkout that I had never
touched.

When it happens, errors show up on most git commands, usually `git diff`
but sometimes also `git status`:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
> git diff
error: object file .git/objects/e0/1bd6c3c77309b13dab22f9e0de33576ede944f is 
empty
fatal: unable to read e01bd6c3c77309b13dab22f9e0de33576ede944f
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

A quick Internet search led me to realize there is little to do to
recover the corrupted repository beside cloning it again.  I haven't
lost anything so far, knock on wood.

My first thought was a hard drive issue.  I have a NVMe SAMSUNG
MZVLW256HEHP.
I ran some smartmontools test, everything looks fine.

But now that I think about it, I did not notice any other issue than
within the .git folder, so maybe it's a... Git issue?

Would it be possible that the Guix package of Git be the culprit?
I run git 2.19.0 and a repo got corrupted just this morning.

I use emacs-magit all the time.  Not sure it's related considering that
a repository I never edited also got corrupted.

Anyone?

--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/


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