Re: PSA for LUKS users

2023-04-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-04-19, Felix Lechner via wrote: > Given the broad popularity of LUKS full-disk encryption among our > fellow Guix users, I thought the community might appreciate reading > about potentially weak key-derivation functions in older LUKS > installations. [1] > > The article even offers fixes, a

PSA for LUKS users

2023-04-19 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Given the broad popularity of LUKS full-disk encryption among our fellow Guix users, I thought the community might appreciate reading about potentially weak key-derivation functions in older LUKS installations. [1] The article even offers fixes, although I cannot say whether your system will

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 29

2023-04-19 Thread Martin Castillo
Hi, sorry for the other mail, I just saw this one. Am 19.04.23 um 18:05 schrieb Gottfried: Hi, thanks for help I have MATE 1.24.1 Desktop and GDM as display manager A quick search makes me think gdm sources .xprofile. So adding source ~/.bash_profile to ~/.xprofile should work. [1]: Somew

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread (
Kyle writes: > The context is that my R package calls a bunch of shell scripts stored inside > it. I am getting errors about > /usr/bin/env not being available (e.g. bad interpreter: no such file or > directory), so was thinking that their > shebangs were not getting patched. It's not clear to m

Re: to enable all profiles at login time

2023-04-19 Thread Martin Castillo
Hi, Am 19.04.23 um 18:10 schrieb Gottfried: but when starting MATE Desktop all my profiles are not enabled. graphical sessions environment is not controlled by .bash_profile (or .profile) If sddm is used, this statement is false. Does source that file (if bash is the users shell) and ther

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread Kyle
The context is that my R package calls a bunch of shell scripts stored inside it. I am getting errors about /usr/bin/env not being available (e.g. bad interpreter: no such file or directory), so was thinking that their shebangs were not getting patched. It's not clear to me how thorough Guix is

Re: to enable all profiles at login time

2023-04-19 Thread Gottfried
Hi, your email address is still blocked through my email-provider. So I don’t get it. I am working on "Guix System" , not on a foreign distro. So I don’t know if your suggestion I can use. -- Kind regards Gottfried Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:25:57 +0200 From: Giovanni Biscuolo To

Re: Help-Guix Digest, Vol 89, Issue 29

2023-04-19 Thread Gottfried
Hi, thanks for help I have MATE 1.24.1 Desktop and GDM as display manager You need to know what display-manager (the program where you log in to your user) you use and look at its documentation to see what files it may source before it logs you in. I didn’t find out which version of gdm I h

Re: Is it possible to system reconfigure from a local guix git?

2023-04-19 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:03:51 +0200 Andreas Enge wrote: > So in a first step, if I am limited to sudo, I do "sudo su -" to > become root. Thanks a lot, that seems to work: I don't have the same errors anymore (I've other errors related to i686 though). Denis. pgpEUfpiXtynB.pgp Description: Open

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread (
"(" writes: > ``/usr/bin/env bash'' will automatically be substituted for the path to > an available ``/bin/bash'' in the store. (If that's what you're talking > about here; not sure what the context is exactly.) ...never mind, i thought you were talking about software that you want to package.

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread (
Kyle Andrews writes: > The (many) shell scripts in my software depend on bashisms. In the code right > now I typically use /usr/bin/env bash since I had read that was the most > portable way of referencing a shell. However, I really don't think I have a > good > handle on what my choices are. M

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread Martin Castillo
Hi, So everything is bash in the end, but I do not know whether bash behaves differently if it is called under the name "sh". You could give it a try. Yes. Search for \bsh\b in the manpage. It includes things like If bash is invoked with the name sh, it tries to mimic the startup be‐ havio

Error building with guix system image

2023-04-19 Thread Saku Laesvuori
Running `guix system image image-minimal.scm` fails with the following build log: ```build log for partition.img.drv copying 340 store items | [progress bar animation] registering 337 items | [progress bar animation, fails before end] Backtrace: In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 19 (_ #(# # …)) In ./gn

Re: Emacs EXWM requires restart after a Guix Home reconfigure

2023-04-19 Thread Fabio Natali
On 2023-04-17, 14:08 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > I think there's nothing special about 'guix home' or ExWM here; it > happens with any Emacs package installation; Emacs must be restarted > completely (M-x guix-emacs-autoload-packages doesn't suffice). It's a > regression that was introduced w

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:18:33AM + schrieb Kyle Andrews: > I'm curious what other options might be. The main bashism I use is default > environment variables ${FOO:-bar}. On a native Guix system I could just add > /usr/bin/env back in. However, that doesn't seem to be possible with