Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-22 Thread Jan
nd and just service field, but it never worked. --Jan> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:35:23AM +0200, Jan wrote: > > Hi, I'm trying to install Guix System on the following computer:Ryzen 5 1600MSI pcmate B350ADATA SX7000NP - it's a NVMe SSDThe problem is installation finishes successfull

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-23 Thread Jan
Sorry, I sent private messages and for sending the email in HTML earlier, I didn't completely figure it out how these mailing lists work, please forgive me. Hope this one will be visible on the list. >which must be changed to >(services (cons* (gnome-desktop-service) > (service

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-23 Thread Jan
>Can you show us the actual error message please? Yes, but I have to try to install it again, will take some time. > You have *two* instances of the slim-service-type, but this is not > supported. The example in the manual has two instances. Is it not supported yet, or is the manual wrong?

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-23 Thread Jan
I've tried two things - graphical installation without any DE/WM with the DHCP client - same effect (the system fails to boot) and manual installation using slim-service-type, where running 'guix system init /mnt/etc' throws '/mnt/etc/config.scm:40:1 error: invalid field specifier'. I attached the

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-23 Thread Jan
Great, my mail client probably fooled me again... Sorry again for sending a private message, this is my first real discussion on a mailing list. Is there a way to keep messages on the list, I'm using "respond to a mailing list" option, but it somehow doesn't do what I want. Reposting the message h

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-24 Thread Jan
>You could try pressing e in GRUB >and adding “modprobe.blacklist=radeon modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu” to >the end of the linux line. This one works, but without GUI, probably because I forgot to install any WM/DE, but something seems to be running on tty7 and tty8, so I'm assuming it's slim-service

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-24 Thread Jan
>Maybe Debian works because it uses a >different kernel configuration, you could try. If Debian works, then >Guix System could be made to work. Tried installing Debian 10 with GNOME and it doesn't look good either - instead of gdm, there's a cursor blinking, I could switch to a different tty, bu

Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug?

2019-07-24 Thread Jan
>Debian not working is not a good sign. Note that without 3d >acceleration, Xorg should work on linux-libre and that it does not >work at all is a bug. I do not know if someone knowledgeable with >enough time cares enough to fix it though, because it works with >nonfree firmware. > >I believe t

Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

2019-11-13 Thread Jan
unting at /boot/efi instead of boot. Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

2019-11-13 Thread Jan
Tried this, but didn't work, also tried mounting the partition at "/boot/efi" and installing bootloader at "/boot". I'm installing Guix form a not-UEFI machine, could this cause the problem? Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

2019-11-15 Thread Jan
> > Would you like to try implementing it? Well, I could try as a Scheme learning exercise, but it would take me some time, because I'm a fresh Guile coder and the only thing I know about UEFI is that it has a buggy implementation on my motherboard and GRUB goes to hell :) Any hint where could I start? Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-08-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
GUIX_PROFILE= /bin/sh -x " profile "/etc/profile"))) (exports (matches-in-string "^[+] export \\(.*\\)" output))) (mapcar (lambda (line) (apply #'setenv (split-string line "="))) exports ))) --8<---cut here---end---

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
> solution is not that bad after all! ...but indeed, then I settled for "parsing" sh ;-) janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > In all modesty ;-) I think the API is rather good: > > scheme@(guile-user)> ,use(guix profiles) > scheme@(guile-user)> (profile-search-paths "/home/ludo/.guix-profile") > $11 = ((#< variable: "PATH" files: ("bin" "sbin") > separator: ":" file-type: directory file-pattern

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile) >> "Switch Emacs' environment to PROFILE. PROFILE can be a named >> profile (like ~/.guix-profile, ~/.config/guix/work) or an >> environment (like: echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT)." snip >> and where to put this? > > That LGTM!

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Alex Kost writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-13 22:45 +0200) wrote: > >> (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile) > Thank you! I'm going to apply it. I have extracted the guile code and > put it to the "scheme side" of Emacs-Guix, also I have rewr

How to get the store directory of a package output?

2018-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi! Using #$icedtea-8 inside a gexp gives me the store directory of the default icedtea's output. Adding (string-append #$icedtea-8 "/bin") to PATH gives me java. How do i get to the bin directory of javac, i.e. the "jdk" output of icedtea-8 inside a gexp? Greetings, janneke

Re: How to get the store directory of a package output?

2018-11-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Gábor Boskovits writes: >> Using #$icedtea-8 inside a gexp gives me the store directory of the >> default icedtea's output. Adding (string-append #$icedtea-8 "/bin") >> to PATH gives me java. >> > > You can try #$icedtea-8:jdk according to the docs. I did not test this, Yes, that works. Now tha

Re: Installer, recommended store size and hardware detection

2019-02-09 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
more than one or two roll-backs. janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Let’s work on the Hurd, people! It’s beautiful! FWIW the Mes port to the Hurd is ongoing and mes now runs, next thing up is fork which we need for running mescc. janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

2019-06-03 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Right. You can pin it by running something like ./pre-inst-env guix environment --root=~/.config/guix/conkeror --ad-hoc conkeror in a git checkout that still has conqueror. Greetings, janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

2019-11-12 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
tem (mount-point "/") (device (file-system-label "root")) (type "btrfs")) (file-system (mount-point "/home") (device (file-system-label "home")) (type "btrfs")) %base-file-systems)) I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but don't know what. Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Port forwarding and `guix system vm`

2020-07-07 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
---end--->8--- I noticed this yesterday while struggled similarly, and found that removing this bit from run-sh; like so: --8<---cut here---start->8--- sed 's,-nic user[^ ]* ,,' /gnu/store/j8fqc160diq82da7913gpdlcjca45rhz-run-vm.sh > run-vm.sh --8<---cut here---end--->8--- and running "run-vm.sh, will create only eth0. I blamed this second eth1 device for my ssh'ing troubles...but I cannot reproduce that today...dunno! Greetings, Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Re: How to run Guix with Hurd

2020-07-11 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
dern hardware yet. You can try Guix GNU/Hurd on a virtual machine (qemu). If you're interested in it, I can give you instructions to set up a VM with the Hurd. Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: How to run Guix with Hurd

2020-07-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: Hello! > On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 01:05:28AM +0200, Jan Wielkiewicz wrote: >> Hurd lacks SMP (Simultaneous MultiProcessing), is 32-bit only and it >> doesn't support modern hardware yet. > > I too wanted to try Hurd on real hardware

Re: How to run Guix with Hurd

2020-07-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > It may just yet. Make sure your /dev/sda1 smaller than 128GiB. Eh...the Hurd must not see any parts of a disk beyond 128GiB. So if hd0s1 starts at 0, it must is not bigger than 128GiB. A GNU/Linux partition can live beyond that. I had a 20GiB hd0s2 partition st

Re: No Guile on Windows?

2020-07-24 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
ple know we're looking for someone who does. It could be a GSoC proposal, Outreachy something, etc. Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Jami crashes (dring not available)

2020-07-28 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
n. > > Regards > // Tirifto If anyone has any idea why Jami doesn't start on external distributions, please tell me. Jan Wielkiewicz

Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

2020-11-04 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
rt has been merged with guix master, so it should be easier now. Sadly, the pinebook-pro died on me just a couple of days after writing the blog post, and I haven't updated it since. Greetings, Jannee -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.co

Re: Package building with gcc-10

2020-11-18 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
You can add gcc-10 to package inputs like this: ("gcc" ,gcc-10) Jan Wielkiewicz