Re: PAM modules support?

2024-10-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Aleksej, On Thu, Oct 10 2024, Aleksej via wrote: > adding custom PAM modules with Guix Yes, it is possible. You can either do it the traditional way [1] or you can do it in Guile. [2] Kind regards Felix [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2024-09/msg8.html [2] https://list

Re: send-hostname/DHCP Option 12 for lab environment?

2024-10-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Thom, On Wed, Oct 09 2024, Thom R Harmon wrote: > I cannot configure how to tell Guix System DHCP client nodes to use > send-hostname/DHCP Option 12. Did you already try the 'host-name' option from the example in the manual page for dhclient? [1] I never tried it but you can probably pass a

Re: Add path to a guix package into CMakeLists.txt

2024-10-04 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Aristide, On Thu, Oct 03 2024, Andreas Enge wrote: > (let* ((lrs (assoc-ref inputs "lrslib")) Andreas practically co-founded Guix and I'm a noobie, but I think Lily might have told me once that 'search-input-file' is now preferred. Kind regards Felix

Re: Conflict with ffmpeg and mpv

2024-10-04 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Chris, On Fri, Oct 04 2024, Chris Keschnat wrote: > guix package: error: profile contains conflicting entries for ffmpeg > guix package: error: first entry: ffmpeg@7.0.2[...] > guix package: error: second entry: ffmpeg@6.1.1[...] > guix package: error:... propagated fro

Re: Recipe for setting-up Exim with Dovecot and Sieve?

2024-09-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Janneke, On Fri, Sep 06 2024, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > I am now wondering how (easy it is) to add local storage and IMAP for > personal use only. I have not used Sieve and do not like Exim, but this Dovecot setup works great for me. [1] The key is "LAYOUT=fs". Without it, you get the

Re: Could anyone using EXWM share their guix config?

2024-09-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Oleander, On Sat, Sep 14 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > Guix seems to have some unique difficulties with `startx' I use the code below. Kind regards Felix * * * #!/usr/bin/env -S guile --no-auto-compile -s !# (let* ((profile (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guix-profile")) (virtual-termi

Re: Custom channel is making guix pull fail

2024-09-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Felipe, On Fri, Sep 13 2024, Luis Felipe wrote: > (exception match-error (value "match") (value "no matching pattern") Maybe something was renamed in master that broke the package definition of luflac-x in your channel? Sorry I cannot be more helpful. Kind regards Felix

Re: VPN connection: How do I disable IPv6?

2024-08-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Felipe, On Fri, Aug 16 2024, Luis Felipe wrote: > https://ip.me/ still shows where I am by using IPv6. I believe NetworkManager manages and overrides thos sysctl settings. I'd disable IPv6 for that interface in NetworkManager with 'nmcli' [1] and then include the change in your configuration.

Re: Anomaly with LVM and Mount Points.

2024-08-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Raghav, On Mon, Aug 12 2024, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > the mount points '/' and '/gnu/store' doesn't show up in `lsblk`. Will you please also send your system configuration? Thanks for using Guix! Kind regards Felix

Re: Mounting an SMB share only when used

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi David, On Sun, Jul 28 2024, David Lecompte wrote: > I see there is an autofs package, is it functional? Probably, as version 5.1.8 is from 2021. You can also use 5.1.9 locally and then submit a patch. > Will a daemon be started for it [...] ? No, the package will provide the executable, bu

Re: Mcron jobs using with-mail-out

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Simon, On Mon, Aug 05 2024, Simon Streit wrote: > (setenv "PATH" > (string-append (getenv "PATH") >":/run/setuid-programs/")) Thanks for that! Do you provide a 'sendmail' executable in your system profile? If so, should the system PATH include "/run/setuid-pr

Re: Question about PAM service

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Fredrik, On Fri, Aug 02 2024, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: > it does not look supertrivial to modify a PAM service. One way in Linux-PAM would be to skip the pam_unix.so module when the pam_u2f.so module returned PAM_SUCCESS, like this auth [success=1 new_authtok_reqd=1 ignore=ignore defau

Re: error message: freetype

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sat, Jul 20 2024, gfp wrote: > I don't know if the second sentence refers to the first one or it is > another problem: Those two issues look unrelated to me. Just make sure you refer to the 'freetype' license via licence:freetype like Marek wrote. You can how that's done with

Re: udev rule only works with sudo

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Chris, On Sun, Aug 04 2024, Chris Keschnat wrote: > I will try, but I have never customized a package. No need. Just customize your Guix executable by applying the three patches. The 'eudev' package is a prerequsite for many others, so reconfiguring your system will rebuild a lot. I wish I

Re: Efficient iterative shepherd service development ?

2024-08-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Nicholas, On Mon, Aug 05 2024, Nicolas Odermatt-Lemay wrote: > So I'd like to know the "Guix way", or just a more efficient way to do > this type of development. I'd use the Shepherd REPL. [1] You'll have to install the executables you need into the system profile, since their store paths ma

Re: udev rule only works with sudo

2024-08-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Chris, On Sat, Aug 03 2024, Chris Keschnat wrote: > KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", > ATTRS{serial}=="*vial:f64c2b3c*", MODE="0660", GROUP="users", > TAG+="uaccess", TAG+="udev-a > crw--- 1 root root 242, 0 03.08.2024 09:03 /dev/hidraw0 With the group at 'root', are you

Re: "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need

2024-08-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Fri, Aug 02 2024, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > Are you perhaps not aware of "guix home delete-generations -d *" and > "sudo guix system delete-generations -d *"? I use those without the "-d *" part. What does that do, please? > I used to have my system partition overfilled [...] the

Re: "guix system reconfigure" downloads 2G of stuff it doesn't need

2024-08-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Leo, On Thu, Aug 01 2024, Leo Famulari wrote: >> [...] and, equally importantly, why they are _not_ considered >> necessary by "guix gc"? > > The short answer is "to save disk space at the potential cost of > increased network usage". I am not sure I agree with your framing. While adjustment

Changing password in Prosody

2024-07-19 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, How may I change my Prosody password when using the prosody-service-type, please? Following the manual, I tried something like prosodyctl --config ../../etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua passwd JID but I see errors no matter what I do (chown, chmod). Sometimes, it's "No such file" even

Re: Kubernetes on Guix

2024-07-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Mike, On Mon, Jul 15 2024, Michael Dahlberg wrote: > is Guix an appropriate environment to run a Kubernetes cluster As a meta-summary, it's probably one area where you could use your considerable experience in system administration to help improve Guix. Most of us are working hard to make Gu

Re: A seed for the concept of a network router

2024-07-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Sat, Jul 13 2024, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > So, what is the first step in this journey? Which device do you have? Kind regards Felix

Re: Shepherd init

2024-07-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Patrick On Mon, Jul 15 2024, Patrick Pippen wrote: > I’m wondering if shepherds init system can be used by other operating > systems besides GUIX. I'm sure it's possible, but if you like Scheme there may be no reason to use another operating system. Guix is maturing fast, and we have a great

Re: XIM doesn't work: "No IM module matching GTK_IM_MODULE=xim found"

2024-07-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Akib, On Tue, Jul 09 2024, Akib Azmain Turja wrote: > (dino:14531): Gtk-WARNING **: 02:52:19.528: No IM module matching > GTK_IM_MODULE=xim found I have used ibus with Emacs with this code. [1] Maybe have a look at GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE ? As a fellow EXWM user, I use Emacs's own inpu

Re: How to automatically restart mcron (or register new jobs) on deploy?

2024-07-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tomas, On Fri, Jul 05 2024, Tomas Volf wrote: > Is there a way to make this happen automatically? Do the new timers from the Shepherd development branch do that? Kind regards Felix

G-exp '#$... vs. (list $#@...)

2024-07-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, I'm in the weeds with several G-exp nesting levels. The code works, but what is the difference between '#$something and (list #$@something) ? The latter seems to evaluate. Thanks! Felix

Re: guix system image: unexpected guix pull from savannah

2024-06-27 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Vasilii, On Tue, Jun 25 2024, Vasilii Smirnov wrote: >> Git error: failed to connect to git.savannah.gnu.org: Network is unreachable FSF had a big outage two days ago. The reason was a failed storage array. I had similar issues, but it works for me now. Kind regards Felix

Re: guix system reconfigure stuck at "guix system: bootloader successfully installed on /(dev/sda)"

2024-06-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Oleander, On Tue, Jun 18 2024, Oleander via wrote: > the output gets stuck at Does your configuration do anything unusual? Also, I switched to 'guix deploy' as a more capable command. Perhaps that is an option for you, too? Kind regards Felix

Re: Is a graft warranted here?

2024-06-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tomas, Thank you for writing! On Sat, Jun 15 2024, Tomas Volf wrote: > Could you write bit more about how to reproduce it and what to look > for? My issue may be with 'guix shell'. Would you please run guix shell nyacc one time in order to get version 1.08.1 into your store and into yo

Is a graft warranted here?

2024-06-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Why does the package definition below provide a grafted version 1.08.1 instead of the source I requested, please? Kind regards Felix * * * (define-public nyacc/juix (let* ((commit "41691b062b598a92549821879766e0ee48b635da") (revision "0")) (package (inherit nyacc)

Re: dhcp-client default gateway with multiple interfaces, race condition?

2024-06-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Richard, On Fri, Jun 14 2024, Richard Sent wrote: > the default gateway isn't pointing towards the internet-routable > gateway The traditional answer has been that our dhclient service doesn't work very well. I had similar issues two years ago and, lacking time, simply went with network-mana

Re: Ruby without RVM - what to do if the version I want is missing?

2024-06-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Daniel, On Fri, Jun 14 2024, Daniel Littlewood wrote: > I am trying to migrate from Debian to Guix. Congratulations & welcome! I did the same thing two and half years ago. The next two months were some of the most painful weeks in my life, but now I'm in a very happy place. > I am used to

Re: using magit (and maybe mu4e) for sending patches to Guix?

2024-06-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Benjamin, On Mon, Jun 10 2024, Benjamin Slade wrote: > so was wondering if anyone had a good Magit workflow I use the 'W' (that's a capital W) command in Magit and then 'c' for "create" with all the bells and whistles, ie. - "C-m b" for base commit; - "C-m v" for reroll count; and f

Re: How to configure smartd and send notifications?

2024-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tristan, On Thu, May 23 2024, Tristan Kohl via wrote: > I did not even think about using Guile as the executable :D Congratulations! Maybe you will stop writing shell scripts altogether. > Wrong type to apply: # For me, that error often means an extra pair of parentheses, such as trying to

Re: LVM v. LUKS @ manual partitioning

2024-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Yann, On Thu, May 23 2024, Yann Dupont wrote: > I don't understand how this can work without activation... Will you please share your configuration? Kind regards Felix

Re: luks device keyfile passed but still ask for passphrase during boot

2024-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Thomas, On Mon, May 20 2024, Thomas Bennett wrote: > it stills asks for my passphrase to unlock the backup partition. I don't use LUKS personally, but I have seen enough message traffic to believe the Guix does not (or perhaps, did not) support some common key types for LUKS2. A fix via GRUB

Re: LVM v. LUKS @ manual partitioning

2024-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Yann, On Wed, May 22 2024, Yann Dupont wrote: > @Felix, are you using LVM2 in this case ? Yes. For examples, see here [1] here [2] and here [3]. By the way, there is no LVM1---in case that was part of the question. Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/com

Re: Unable to access any web pages under https://guix.gnu.org

2024-05-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Ashvith, On Sun, May 19 2024, Ashvith Shetty wrote: > I do not have access to the manual page on the web anymore. How can I > get access to these manuals once again? The manuals are probably on your hard drive. Please use C-h R in Emacs or use your favorite stand-alone info reader. Expert ti

Re: LVM v. LUKS @ manual partitioning

2024-05-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi C.G., On Sun, May 19 2024, Braswell Business Communications Services Inc. wrote: > After configuring the LVM to my needs, I then cannot mount the target > root file system I use LVM2 a lot but have not used LUKS2. (Guix may not support all LUKS2 key types.) Will you please post your system

Re: How to configure smartd and send notifications?

2024-05-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tristan, On Mon, May 20 2024, Tristan Kohl via wrote: > smartd then complains that the file is not executable... Sorry, it was a Monday morning for me. If you are comfortable using Guile---which I'm sure you almost are by now--You can use 'program-file': Please have a look at any of these h

Re: How to configure smartd and send notifications?

2024-05-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tristan, On Mon, May 20 2024, Tristan Kohl via wrote: > (define smartd-config-file > (plain-file Have you tried mixed-text-file? Kind regards Felix

Re: Guix system is stuck

2024-05-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Reza, On Sat, May 18 2024, Reza Housseini wrote: > what I am supposed to do ...? If you have enough space and resources on the equipment, please pull from Git (not Guix) and build according to the instructions in the manual. Unfortunately, the online versions are not available at the moment

Re: How to configure smartd and send notifications?

2024-05-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tristan, On Mon, May 20 2024, Tristan Kohl via wrote: > (list "/run/current-system/profile/sbin/smartd" "--no-fork" "-c" > smartd-config-file))) > warning "possibly unbound variable smartd-config-file". Please quoteg the variable smartd-config-file as #$smartd-config-file inside the G-expres

Re: Guix system is stuck

2024-05-19 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Reza On Sat, May 18 2024, Reza Housseini wrote: > guix pull: error: Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid How old is your installation (guix describe) and is your system time set correctly? Kind regards Fellix

Re: simple song named "Guix"

2024-05-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Fri, May 03 2024, g...@posteo.at wrote: > I don’t know how it works with copyright, > Suggestions are welcome. I think your your song is a super unique contribution in the Guix community, but we cannot do much with it other than listen to it privately. Per Wikipedia, copyright

Re: Guix deploy ignoring identity

2024-05-13 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Kristoffer, On Mon, May 13 2024, Kristoffer Ström wrote: > I realize now that my ssh key is password protected, is this maybe not > supported? To my knowledge that is not supported, but I'd love to hear otherwise. Kind regards Felix

Re: Guix deploy ignoring identity

2024-05-13 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Kristoffer, On Mon, May 13 2024, Kristoffer Ström wrote: > i'm trying to use guix deploy for a remote vhost Here is a machine stanza I have been using. It always works, aside from name resolution issues or SSH timeouts: https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/branch/history/host

Re: how to build dependent packages of a package?

2024-05-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andy & everyone, On Thu, May 09 2024, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I wonder if there is a Guix command to build all packages that > depend on a particular package? Mainly useful for testing if updating > a package will break packages dependent on it The word "dependent" can mean one of two things.

Re: simple song named "Guix"

2024-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Fri, May 03 2024, gfp wrote: > I put the song down in "Musescore 3.6.2" > and recorded it with "obs" I hoped to listen to your song again, but the Tuxedo page is no longer accessible. Did you upload the song somewhere else? Thanks! Kind regards Felix

Re: pgp key

2024-05-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Thu, May 02 2024, g...@posteo.at wrote: > I don't know how it works, how somebody can find it or download > anything from there. Thanks for sending those! You can see your own messages in the list archive. [1] I can download the score and watch your guitar song Guix.mp4. Thank

Re: How to debug failing guix pull?

2024-05-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Thomas, On Thu, May 02 2024, Tomas Volf wrote: > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at > 'https://git.wolfsden.cz/.git/guix'... > guix pull: error: Git error: SSL error: 0x8880 - SSL - A fatal alert > message was received from our peer Would you please try that again? On T

Re: pgp key

2024-05-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, May 01 2024, g...@posteo.at wrote: > I would like to send it to all For songs and other creative content it may be better to provide a download link (for files and signatures) than to copy the entire list. Some folks, myself included, read emails on devices with limited me

Re: pgp key

2024-05-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, May 01 2024, g...@posteo.at wrote: > I would not like to send it unencrypted, so that somebody may misuse > it during the sending. What type of misuse do you envision? If you want to share the song with the world, you are not looking for encryption. That would help keep y

Re: Insufficient privileges

2024-04-30 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Wed, Apr 24 2024, guix wrote: > I thinking it is ether dbus or a polkit issue On my equipment NetworkManager (and Connman) work out of the box. Will you please share your configuration? Kind regards Felix

Re: pgp key

2024-04-30 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, Apr 30 2024, Tomas Volf wrote: > This is a public mailing list, so the messages to it should not be > encrypted. If it's okay to elaborate, it is furthermore not necessary to encrypt carbon copies of public messages to direct recipients. So when you copy Ludo' on messages

Re: What is the difference between the directories in / and in /run/current-system/profile?

2024-04-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Nathaniel, On Sat, Apr 27 2024, Nathan Dehnel wrote: > These directories are in both locations. As you already figured out, they contain different things. > What does it mean for a file to be in one place vs the other? Files in /var and /etc hold some form of local system state, plus logs.

Re: How to share profile among machines ?

2024-04-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Emmanuel, On Wed, Apr 24 2024, Emmanuel Medernach wrote: > How do you share profiles among machines ? Do you mean users? > For instance 2 users wants to have the same profile, user A shares the > directory /gnu/store/...-profile to user B, user B either get access > to it directly or from a

Re: Is guix the right tool to get package definitions?

2024-04-22 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Adam, On Mon, Apr 22 2024, Adam wrote: > Anyway, I'm just curious about it. If there are already answers for my > question, I would like to read them. I am not familiar with the tarballs Nix uses to deliver updates of package definitions. Their repo is probably bigger than Guix. Here, we us

Re: Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Sun, Apr 21 2024, William wrote: > I ran e2fsck, lsblk, blkid and fdisk on a booted system to verify that > everything is fine with these partitions, no sign of anything > unusal... Are you being bitten by a new incompatibility between GRUB and the new default options? [1] How did

Re: Pinyin in GNOME

2024-04-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tomas, On Mon, Nov 06 2023, Tomas Volf wrote: > Not sure about pinyin, but for ibus I need to set > > (simple-service > 'im-env-vars home-environment-variables-service-type > '(("GTK_IM_MODULE" . "ibus") > ("QT_IM_MODULE" . "ibus") > ("XMODIFIERS" . "@im=ibus")

Re: Replication question

2024-04-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Mauritz, On Tue, Apr 16 2024, Mauritz Stenek wrote: > How, then, is this environment replicable [...] ? Soon after switching to Guix System, I also adopted Guix Home. Together both more or less ensure a reproducible enviroment. In your use case, I believe only the packages are reproducible

Re: Server installation is incompatible with guix home

2024-04-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi MSavoritias, On Fri, Apr 12 2024, MSavoritias wrote: > Is there [...] a way to make the warning disappear without installing > all desktop services? This seems to work for me. [1][2][3] Thanks to unbalanced-paren, who gave it to me years ago! There could be subtle differences in our home con

Re: Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Fri, Apr 12 2024, William wrote: > What could be causing this behavior? Maybe the GRUB module for that particular file system was not loaded (or was not found). Please have a look at the documentation for 'insmod'. Kind regards Felix

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

2024-04-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andreas, On Thu, Apr 11 2024, Andreas Enge wrote: > So if I understand correctly, 2GB is about the amount of memory needed > for "guix pull". Probably. By the way, nothing in my messages should be interpreted to say that Guix's memory usage is acceptable. I am merely trying to help. > Now

Re: Inconsistency between resolved issues/patches and source files.

2024-04-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Tue, Apr 09 2024, William wrote: > Could someone explain exactly what the "core-updates" branch is? The mission of that branch is changing but it's not going away. Originally, it pooled all edits that resulted in large numbers of rebuilds on the substitute servers. After team bra

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

2024-04-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, Apr 09 2024, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > you could make Guix pull an older commit There is also 'guix deploy' from a stronger machine, which I recommend for any VPS. It's a breeze to set up but does currently come with some security implications. It requires automated SSH a

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

2024-04-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Apr 08 2024, Andreas Enge wrote: > I have a virtual machine that ... had 1GB of memory. This was not > enough to do a "guix pull". I operated a 1 GB web server that ran Guix on Linode for a while. Did you configure a swap partition? Kind regards Felix

Re: icedove crashes when you attach a file

2024-04-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sat, Apr 06 2024, Gottfried wrote: > /home/gfp/.guix-profile/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: undefined > symbol: g_task_set_static_name Did you install 'gvfs' into your home profile? It could also be a packaging error. [1][2][3] Kind regards Felix [1] https://stackoverflow.c

Re: guix system reconfigure errors

2024-04-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Oleander, On Fri, Mar 29 2024, Oleander via wrote: > 354:39 4 (_ #< name: guix url: "https://git.savannah.gn…>) > Git error: the SSL certificate is invalid Those log lines are abbreviated, but the certificate error strikes me as likely to be transient. Savannah is maintained by volunteers a

Re: VM Guix

2024-03-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Brian, On Mon, Mar 25 2024, Brian O'Keefe wrote: > it eats up disk space like a hog Yeah, that's Guix for you. We provide perfect prerequisites, which can involve many similar versions of the same stuff. I had 25 GB VM for a while and it was fine, but I did not reconfigure often. Also, if

Re: Stuck at boot on fresh install

2024-03-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi David, On Mon, Mar 25 2024, David Lecompte wrote: > error: no such cryptodisk found. Do you use LUKS on boot? Our GRUB supports only a particular type of key. Maybe that's the issue? Kind regards Felix

Re: 'static-networking' fails to start

2024-03-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Fabio, On Mon, Mar 25 2024, Fabio Natali wrote: > I wasn't able to un-archive Debbugs was down. I unarchived Bug#64653 for you. > I've been trying to reconfigure a machine from static IPv4 to static > dual-stack or IPv6-only. I also had issues with static networking two years ago. Here is

Re: Any success with fingerprint scanner/fprintd for Gnome login?

2024-03-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Ben, On Sun, Mar 24 2024, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Any suggestions or thoughts on how to troubleshoot this? I do not use GNOME or fprintd but the manual page says it's a DBus service that comes with a PAM module. I am not sure that fprintd-service-type installs the PAM module, so maybe that ha

Re: Using custom xkbmaps

2024-03-13 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Kristoffer, On Wed, Mar 13 2024, Kristoffer Ström wrote: > i'm using a custom xkbmap that i've been developing over the last > decade or so, and i'm looking to migrate to guix system. When I switched to Guix, I gave up my own Rocket layout. [1] Where is your layout, please? > i have found

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Fri, Mar 08 2024, William wrote: > you mean absolute paths for mounting points or for ntfs-3g? I meant store paths inside packages. They may not be visible to you. Packaging errors can cause some to go missing. > Shouldn't Sheperd log these issues somewhere? Logging may be a rec

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Mon, Mar 04 2024, William wrote: > the issue is ... ntfs-3g relying on the external FUSE to mount > partitions. I am not sure but please consider that GNU Guix relies on absolute paths to find many things. Perhaps a needed part is not found? Kind regards Felix

Re: Patch review session tomorrow (Thursday 7th March)

2024-03-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Wed, Mar 06 2024, Steve George wrote: > 18:00 UTC, 18:00 GMT (London), 19:00 CET (Paris), 13:00 EST (New York) As one of the weirdos out in California, I'll add 10 AM Pacific. Please join! Kind regards Felix

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

2024-03-04 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Owen, On Sat, Mar 02 2024, Owen T. Heisler wrote: >(start #~(lambda () > #$(say-hello))) My code works when I place it directly into the 'start' G-exp. [1] By comparison, I think you have two lambdas (with quoting and unquoting). I would try something like this: (start

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, It seems that help-guix was inadvertently left off of the recipients. I hope you don't mind that I copied the mailing list on your response. On Sun, Mar 03 2024, William wrote: > Hello. > > Thanks for the input, this certainly helped me diagnose the issue. > > I set some options so

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi William, On Sun, Mar 03 2024, William wrote: > the FUSE kernel module not loading at boot time Maybe something like that would help when used with your module: https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/branch/history/host/wallace-server/operating-system.scm#L816 Alternatively, you c

Re: abstract question about guix

2024-02-27 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Matt, On Sun, Feb 25 2024, m...@jmgresham.xyz wrote: > If could please contemplate a script that installs utilities before other > certain > things are installed after first a minimal install of a distribution of > GNU/Linux onto the computer. What if the package manager that the > script wou

Re: PostgreSQL 15 service

2024-02-26 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Mauritz, On Sun, Feb 25 2024, Mauritz Stenek wrote: > I added the postgres service I use that service, too [1] > exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'postgres': but I do not get that message upon 'restart'. I was also not able to find anything like that in my logs. Maybe i

Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager

2024-02-26 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Tomas, On Mon, Feb 26 2024, Tomas Volf wrote: > There is patch #68289 Not sure where the message originated, but I use the script below. Kind regards Felix * * * #!/usr/bin/env -S guile --no-auto-compile -s !# (let* ((profile (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.guix-profile")) (virtu

Re: Changing the prefix for this libpg_query package

2024-02-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marc, On Tue, Feb 20 2024, Marc Coquand wrote: > I need to change the prefix to be the guix out directory To override the variable assigned in the Makefile [1] you are right to offer it as an argument to 'make'. [2] I'm not sure why that's not working. I would just replace it in situ: #:

Re: mcron service and PATH (was: Home service for mbsync?)

2024-02-22 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, > you can find it here > I've attached my mbsync service > I just run mbsync as an mcron service. > +1! I also run it using mcron. > In my home services I have this: > I'm doing something similar First off, thanks for all your responses so far! On Thu, Feb 22 2024, Emmanuel Beffara wrote: >

Home service for mbsync?

2024-02-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Does anyone have an 'mbsync' home service, please? Thanks! Kind regards Felix

Re: sending to guix-patches does not seem to show?

2024-02-18 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andy, On Sun, Feb 18 2024, Andy Tai wrote: > multiple issues created... now I will go to merge them, You can do so with "forcemerge" via the control server but if no one has commented yet, I would instead close the duplicate bugs via messages to xxx-d...@debbugs.gnu.org that state: Dup

Re: sending to guix-patches does not seem to show?

2024-02-18 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Andy, Hi Artyom, > sending a patch to guix-patches does not seem to result in the > creation of a new debbugs issue > I'm having the same issue You are not alone. [1][2] Please note that I do not maintain Debbugs. I would like to, but lost an internal appeals process, which was non-public.

Re: Unlocking Gnome keychain in EXWM session

2024-02-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Ian, On Sat, Feb 17 2024, Ian Eure wrote: > Is there some way to unlock this on login in non-Gnome sessions? I don't use GNOME (or the GNOME keyring) but you may have to use PAM to unlock the keyring. [1][2] Kind regards, Felix [1] https://askubuntu.com/a/1445123 [2] https://wiki.archlinux

How to file Mumi bugs

2024-02-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, An effort is under way to bring Mumi [1] and Debbugs [2] closer together. It's like a giant tongue twister! Bugs filed against Mumi are in the process of being re-assigned from 'guix' to the 'mumi' package in Debbugs. For the time being, those bugs may not show up in Mumi anymore, but only in

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Suhail, On Mon, Feb 05 2024, suh...@bayesians.ca wrote: > Felix Lechner via writes: > > Is your position that First off, I'm sorry I write so much today. For a project the size of Guix, it's not good for one person to belabor a point repeatedly. I am responding to

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Clément Lassieur wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU > System distribution." wrote: > > I see no evidence here. And I'm unsure which plan you are talking > about (the plan?). Two people can lo

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Clément, On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Clément Lassieur wrote: > I don't think reviewers have to be committers. How much more evidence does the project need to see in order to realize that the plan is not working? I'll spare the list a lengthy analysis of the social dynamics but the delegation of com

Re: Unable to boot installer (i686)

2024-02-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Kete, On Fri, Feb 02 2024, Kete Foy wrote: > I will try your advice. I am not sure it will work. The last time I tried to install Guix on 32-bit equipment, someone in #guix asked "Why?" and offered to send me a 64-bit product from their retired collection. Kind regards Felix

Re: Troublshooting guix-publish make-systemd-constructor

2024-02-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Jack, On Thu, Feb 01 2024, Jack Hill wrote: > I could use some tips on what's wrong with guix-publish, and more > generally how to troubleshoot systemd services. I use this [1] and also have (service avahi-service-type) [2] but do not know how to troubleshoot. It just worked. Kind regards F

Re: How to determine the supported file systems for (uuid ...)?

2024-01-31 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Rodrigo, On Fri, Jan 19 2024, Rodrigo Morales wrote: > when EXT2 is supported, then it is highly likely that EXT3 and EXT4 is > also supported? Yes, that's because ext3 and ext4 only add better journaling and other features to what essentially remains ext2 metadata. [1] Kind regards Felix [

Re: Unable to boot installer (i686)

2024-01-31 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Kete, On Sun, Jan 28 2024, Kete Foy via wrote: > error: you need to load the kernel first. I believe your BIOS enumerated your drives differently than the installer. Either way, I would load grub.cfg manually and make any needed edits manually before booting, with 'e' in the menu. In prepara

Re: Cannot build personal channel derivation during guix pull

2024-01-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Tue, Jan 23 2024, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > (exception unbound-variable (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~S") > (value (channel)) (value #f)) Not sure how those get loaded on your side. In my setup using Guix home [1] I load (guix channels) and get no such error. Kind regards

Re: Help packaging network-manager-sstp and sstp-client

2024-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Lars, On Sun, Jan 21 2024, Lars Rustand wrote: > Maybe the setenv is only taking effect inside the added phase and is > not propagated to the configure phase? I don't think so. I used the same trick here: https://codeberg.org/lechner/juix/src/commit/fc328c57a4bf100d6b16a7f14e9c96d29a083ba

Re: Help packaging network-manager-sstp and sstp-client

2024-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
On Sun, Jan 21 2024, Clément Lassieur wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21 2024, Felix Lechner via wrote: > > I forgot to say that in this snippet #$(file-append bash ...), bash > doesn't refer to the native input, it directly refers to the bash > package. To refer to an input, you need

Re: Help packaging network-manager-sstp and sstp-client

2024-01-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Lars, On Fri, Jan 19 2024, Lars Rustand wrote: > ./autogen.sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory I would use something like this [1] (arguments (list #:phases #~(modify-phases %standard-phases (add-before 'configure 'provide-shell

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