bug#30618: Cuirass dies with locked database

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > one of my latest cuirass runs ended in this: > > ... > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 705:2 12 (call-with-prompt _ _ #) > 705:2 11 (call-with-prompt _ _ #) > In ice-9/eval.scm: > 619:8 10 (_ #(#(# # …))) > In srfi/srfi-1.scm: > 640:9 9 (for-each # (((#:name . #) …

bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

2018-03-01 Thread Marco van Hulten
Alex— Je 1 mrt 20:47 skribis Alex: > I fixed it on my side simply by making 'my-xorg-server' package > that uses a "fixed" version of libxfont (that supports symlinks). > > If anyone is interested, I also wrote a descriptive commit message here: > > > https://notabug.org/alezost/guix-config/

bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

2018-03-01 Thread Marco van Hulten
Ludovic— Je 1 mrt 17:52 skribis Ludovic: > Marco van Hulten skribis: > > > When I follow the manual at > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts > > , > > I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm > > trying to add it:

bug#30656: symlink manual does not exist

2018-03-01 Thread Marco van Hulten
Ludovic— Je 1 mrt 17:53 skribis Ludovic: > Marco van Hulten skribis: > > > The man page of ln(1) tells me there exists a symlink(2) manual page > > (which I am used to on Unix-like systems), but it is missing: > > > > > > gast@graviton ~$ man 1 ln | grep -A1 SEE\ ALSO > > SEE ALSO > >li

bug#30644: Cuirass runs out of build users

2018-03-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 03:01:30PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Hm, the directories in /tmp are created by guixbuilder01 to guixbuilder10. > > 10 is the default value, but it should have been overwritten. > > > > And in /etc/passwd, I see 20 users. But apparently, they are not used! > > There

bug#30671: youtube-viewer fails to start in environment

2018-03-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
This is what I did: guix environment --ad-hoc youtube-viewer youtube-viewer This is what happened: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Can't locate WWW/YoutubeViewer.pm in @INC (you may need to install the WWW::YoutubeViewer module) (@INC contains: /gnu/store/

bug#30667: 'guix system vm' must keep mount_tag-length limited below 32 bytes for --expose and --share

2018-03-01 Thread Björn Höfling
I prepared a QEMU VM with: ./pre-inst-env guix system vm \ --expose=/home/bjoern/digikam-testpool/=/image-pool \ ../guix-systems/digikam-test.scm Starting the VM it complained: $> /gnu/store/zg5a42vcz4qf6h3yrdrijyaxkbhr967s-run-vm.sh qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs local,path=/home/bjoern/digikam

bug#30665: ant-build-system: use manifest task

2018-03-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, instead of using a custom target that uses the “echo” task to write the manifest, the ant-build-system should use the “manifest” task directly. It is documented here: https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/manifest.html -- Ricardo

bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

2018-03-01 Thread Alex Kost
Marco van Hulten (2018-02-28 22:54 +0100) wrote: > Hello, > > When I follow the manual at > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts > , > I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm > trying to add it: > > > gast@graviton ~$ x

bug#30655: xset(1) not accepting symlink to font path

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marco, Marco van Hulten skribis: > When I follow the manual at > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Application-Setup.html#X11-Fonts > , > I get the message that there is something wrong with the directory I'm > trying to add it: > > > gast@graviton ~$ xset +fp ~/.guix-profil

bug#30656: symlink manual does not exist

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marco van Hulten skribis: > The man page of ln(1) tells me there exists a symlink(2) manual page > (which I am used to on Unix-like systems), but it is missing: > > > gast@graviton ~$ man 1 ln | grep -A1 SEE\ ALSO > SEE ALSO >link(2), symlink(2) > gast@graviton ~$ man 2 symlink > No manua

bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> while testing the cuirass service on bayfront, I see the following: >> >> $ ll /var/log/c* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003521 Feb 28 15:38 /var/log/cuirass.log > > The cuirass service in GuixSD explicitly extends rottlog so that

bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs

2018-03-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 05:35:54PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The cuirass service in GuixSD explicitly extends rottlog so that this > file is rotated on a weekly basis. Perhaps you just need to wait a > little longer? The problem is not that the file grows too large. The problem was that af

bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hi Andreas, > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:50:39 +0100 > Andreas Enge wrote: > >> $ ll /var/log/c* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003521 Feb 28 15:38 /var/log/cuirass.log >> >> I am sure this 2MB file was about 14MB big this morning, and indeed >> any information dating f

bug#30649: Cuirass service does not rotate its logs

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > while testing the cuirass service on bayfront, I see the following: > > $ ll /var/log/c* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003521 Feb 28 15:38 /var/log/cuirass.log The cuirass service in GuixSD explicitly extends rottlog so that this file is rotated on a weekly basis. Perhaps yo

bug#30645: Uncaught exception in cuirass

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andreas Enge skribis: > an error I am seeing from time to time in my cuirass.log file when > testing bayfront: > > Uncaught exception in fiber ##f: > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 829:9 4 (catch _ _ # ?) > In cuirass/base.scm: >599:26 3 (_) > 531:2 2 (build-packages _ #< pointer:

bug#30644: Cuirass runs out of build users

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Andreas Enge skribis: > in trying out the new bayfront machine, I raised the number of concurrent > build jobs to 10; the number of build accounts is programmatically set to > twice this number. Indeed, (sysadmin services) in guix-maintenance.git does that. > 2018-02-27T18:31:16 batch o

bug#30641: Make 'guix refresh' to ignore "v" prefix in CPAN updater

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Oleg Pykhalov skribis: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Oleg Pykhalov writes: >> >>> Marius Bakke writes: >>> Sorry, I meant the opposite: we don't add the "v" prefix. It would be nice to make the CPAN updater aware of that. >>> >>> I'll close current bug report. Should we open a n

bug#30580: request for improvement - web site - packages list - letter selection menu on top

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi David, David Pirotte skribis: > I think it would be nice to also offer the letter selection menu on top of > each > package list page on the web site... Yes, you’re not the first person asking this. WDYT, sirgazil? Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#30569: Packages count as installed twice

2018-03-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Andreas Enge writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:55:05PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> What should we do? Status quo? Throwing a ‘delete-duplicates’ call? >>> Let’s have a poll! ;-) >> >> The thing is confusing, and delete-duplicates should be essentially for