A note of reinstall GuixSD

#+TITLE: A note about GuixSD Reinstallation * The problem My orig GuixSD's root is about 12G, which is enough for other Linux Destribution, but ,is very very small to GuixSD, So I cide enlarge root with the help of gparted livecd Note: should we suggest user add big space to /, for example "100G"

Re:Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

I use hp laptop :-( At 2017-09-19 09:20:01, "Chris Marusich" wrote: >"Feng Shu" writes: > >> Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and >install xfce4 as my desktop. >> A problem faced is that: When I press >Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... >> I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim >login picture

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

"Feng Shu" writes: > Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my desktop. > A problem faced is that: When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... > I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim login picture? > > Any suggestion? thanks! Just the other day, I discovered that in GNOME, I cou

Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my desktop. A problem faced is that: When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim login picture? Any suggestion? thanks! my config: -- (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss)) (use-modules (gnu sys

Re: guixsd can not install on my machine again

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi tumashu, > > tumashu skribis: > >> In gnu/system.scm: >>307:17 3 (read-boot-parameters-file "/var/guix/profiles/system-1?") >> In ice-9/ports.scm: >>444:17 2 (call-with-input-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _ # _) >> In gnu/system.scm: >>28

Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

Hey, At the GHM, one of the things I looked in to was cuirass. Specifically, I tried to see if I could build a collection of guix packages that sit outside of Guix. From trying to use cuirass for a few hours, I began thinking that it might be beneficial to change the interface between cuirass and

Re: [PATCH 11/11] gnu: Add python-twine.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-twine, python2-twine): New variables. OK! BTW, in the future, please consider emailing guix-patc...@gnu.org: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Submitting-Patches.html Thank you! Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 10/11] gnu: Add python-pkginfo.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pkginfo, python2-pkginfo): New variables. [...] > +(arguments > + ;; The tests are broken upstream. > + '(#:tests? #f)) If there’s a URL explaining this, please add it. > +(synopsis > + "Query metadatdata from sd

Re: [PATCH 09/11] gnu: Add python-tqdm.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-tqdm, python2-tqdm): New variables. [...] > +(home-page "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm";) > +(synopsis "Fast, Extensible Progress Meter") No need to capitalize. :-) Otherwise LGTM.

Re: [PATCH 08/11] gnu: Update the propagated inputs of python-urllib3.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-urllib3, python2-urllib3): Update propagated > inputs. OK!

Re: [PATCH 06/11] gnu: Add python-nose-timer.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-nose-time, python2-nose-timer): New > variables. LGTM!

Re: [PATCH 05/11] gnu: python-tox: Update to 2.8.1.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-tox): Update to 2.8.1. OK!

Re: [PATCH 04/11] gnu: Add python2-requests-toolbelt.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-requests-toolbelt): New variable. OK!

Re: [PATCH 03/11] gnu: python-requests-toolbelt: Update to 0.8.0.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-requests-toolbelt): Udpate to 0.8.0. OK!

Re: [PATCH 02/11] gnu: python-autopep8: Update to 1.3.2.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-autopep8): Update to 1.3.2. OK!

Re: [PATCH 01/11] gnu: Add python-pydiff.

Hello! Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pydiff, python2-pydiff): New variables. > --- > gnu/packages/python.scm | 22 ++ > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm > index d7156bf51..2efe8d

Re: guixsd can not install on my machine again

Hi tumashu, tumashu skribis: > In gnu/system.scm: >307:17 3 (read-boot-parameters-file "/var/guix/profiles/system-1?") > In ice-9/ports.scm: >444:17 2 (call-with-input-file _ _ #:binary _ #:encoding _ # _) > In gnu/system.scm: >282:10 1 (read-boot-parameters _) > 238:4 0 (dev

guixsd can not install on my machine again

The error: -- guix system: warning: The 'device' field of bootloader configurations is deprecated. guix system: warning: Use 'target' instead. substitute: substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 0.0% sub

guixsd can not install again.

The error: - gnu/system.scm:238:4 In procedure device-sexp-> device: gnu/system.scm:238:4 Throw to key `match-error' with arg `("match" "no matching pattern" #f)' -

Re: [PATCH] substitute: Close the download port after substitution finished.

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi 宋文武, > > 宋文武 skribis: > >> * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (progress-substitution): Call 'close-port' >> after 'restore-file'. > > Good catch, please push! > > How did you notice? I meet it when test my progress reporter patch at

Re: Status of "GuixOps"?

Hi Hartmut, > in Ludo's presentation at GHM he presented "GuixOps" on a slide. What is > the status of this approach? GuixOps does not exist yet. > Q1: I did not follow the development closely, but I seem to recall that > there is some guix sub-command for configuring a remote system. But > gre

Re: Adopt a patch!

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Arun, > What is more scary is massive imports from external repos (CPAN, etc.). > I think we cannot handle all of it, not with our “quality” guidelines > and not with the pace at which these repos change. > > At the GHM, we were discussing that, probably, we’ll have

Re: guix system init: failed to get path of `/boot/efi'

Am 18.09.2017 um 11:04 schrieb Andy Wingo: > You need to mount the EFI partition to /boot/efi in the installation > system. As the manual says in "Preparing for Installation" (perhaps not > clearly enough): IC. Thanks. Yes, this is not clear enough (like the whole section is). But as I wrote, it

Re: guix system init: failed to get path of `/boot/efi'

On Mon 18 Sep 2017 10:04, Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > For installing a GuixSD in e fresh system I followed the installation > instructions in the manual. As described in the manual, I did set > >   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration >     (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) >    

My experiences with partitioning according to the manual

Hi, I tried installing GuixSD on a fresh (virtual) machine and found that the instructions about partitioning the hard-disk are quite confusing. I'm not sure if it's worth, updating the manual, since the graphical installer may be here soon. But I want to share my experience to show that we stron

guix system init: failed to get path of `/boot/efi'

Hi, For installing a GuixSD in e fresh system I followed the installation instructions in the manual. As described in the manual, I did set   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration     (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)     (target "/boot/efi"))) But running root@gnu ~# ls

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ganeti-instance-guix

Hi! [- ganeti] Marius Bakke skribis: > When you want to try GuixSD, but all you have is a Ganeti cluster... > > I'm pleased to announce ganeti-instance-guix[0], a GuixSD provisioner > for Ganeti. With it you can launch any GuixSD configuration file as > a virtual machine, optionally using a sp

Re: Performance issues with using local-file/interned-file/add-to-store

Morning! Christopher Baines skribis: > There does seem to be an intersection between the pipelining > requirements for computing the store file name, and the potential to > use that name in working out if the add-to-store even needs to happen. > > Maybe computing the store file name for large fi