Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm >> navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's >> one thing I found: >> >> https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186 >>

Re: Network Manager Service

Ludovic Courtès writes: > If Network Manager works as expected, we should consider adding it to > ‘%desktop-services’. Wouldn't this conflict with 'wicd-service'? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how do I config freeipmi SOL (serial over LAN)?

myglc2 writes: > I am using freeipmi on a headless GuixSD server. > > I have SOL (serial over LAN) working to where 'ipmiconsole' shows the > BIOS config and "Welcome to GRUB!" but nothing more. > > It seems I need to configure Grub and the Kernel to send output to SOL. Hi George, You probably

Re: guixsd install questions

Divan Santana writes: > Hi All, > > Few newbie questions regarding install. > > * How to get sshd running on install image for easier remote install. > > Useful for a VM: > > I'm doing this nasty hack for now. > > Get ssh working on boot image: > #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE > guix package -i shadow openssh >

Re: guixsd install questions

Marius Bakke writes: > (lsh-service #:port-number 22 >#:root-login? #t >#:password-authentication? #f Sorry, this should be: #:password-authentication? #t ..so that users can SSH in if they set a password first. Hope t

Re: binary installation on Fedora 25

Catonano writes: > On a fresh installation of Fedora 25 I am trying to do a binary > installation of Guix > > When attempting > > systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon > > I get > > Failed to start guix-daemon.service: Unit guix-daemon.service not found. > > Now: > > $ ls -l

Re: guix system disk-image broken?

Dmitry Nikolaev writes: > I cloned guix git repository and tried make installation image, but get > errors. > > $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git > ... > $ cd guix > $ guix system disk-image --image-size=1G gnu/system/install.scm > guix system: error: failed to load 'gnu/syste

Re: guix system disk-image broken?

Dmitry Nikolaev writes: > On 22 February 2017 at 13:01, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Dmitry Nikolaev writes: >> > $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git >> > ... >> > $ cd guix >> > $ guix system disk-image --image-size=1G gnu/syste

Re: How to setuid X.org?

dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > Hello, > > I have tried several times to get X.org (/bin/X, specifically) > setuid for obvious reasons. However, I can't find any examples of usage > and attempting to follow the infopages has led to a bunch of different > errors and failures (and rather useless

Re: Libreboot + WDE + GuixSD: Need some advice

Stephen Sloan writes: > I am looking for some advice. > > I'm am setting up a libreboot + whole disk encryption + guixsd laptop. > Libreboot has grub in the BIOS, which allows for encrypting the whole disk. > > According to the libreboot docs, I can make the grub config available at > /boot/grub/

Re: EFI GRUB configuration ignores platform, has issues

Hello Isaac! Isaac van Bakel writes: > Hi Guix, > > I've been wrestling with a fresh real install for the past day or so. > > Currently, the system seems to initialize fine with my config, with the > exception of GRUB. > I wanted to get grub-efi working, so I added two things on top of the >

Re: guix environment: list packages in a file

Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to pass to `guix environment` the list > package names to be installed in a file. > > I know `--load=file` where file is a scheme file. The drawback of this > is that one need to know in which scheme module the package is defined –

Re: Kernel panic while building VM

Myles English writes: > Hello, > > Trying to build a VM I get a kernel panic. Any idea why? > > Thanks, > Myles > > guix system vm-image --image-size=1G --fallback pim-server.scm > > `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv' > -> > `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pv

Re: Corrupt colours with X.org

Göktuğ Kayaalp writes: > On 2017-06-19 18:15 +03, Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote: >> On 2017-06-19 13:27 +02, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Göktuğ Kayaalp skribis: >>> I have tried installing GuixSD on my machine, an old Asus laptop, and have completed the installatio

Re: failed to resolve partition “my-root”

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Linux appears to boot but then fails with “failed to resolve partition >>> "my-root"”. I suspect that something in (gnu build file-systems) is >>> broken. koosha on IRC previously reported a similar problem. >>

Re: grub not properly installing in GuixSD

Joshua Branson writes: > Hello, > > I’m currently trying to dual boot Arch Linux and GuixSD on a desktop machine > that I built. GuixSD seems to be installing well, but grub in not properly > installing. I’m trying to boot using grub-efi. > > > After I run guix system init /mnt/etc/bare-bones

Re: grub not properly installing in GuixSD

Joshua Branson writes: > BUT to be sure, I entered my bios and now my computer will only boot in UEFI > mode. When I tell my computer to boot via the usb (using UEFI and booting > GuixSD), it fails to boot at some point. Here’s some of the last entries: > > snd_hda_codec_realtex hdaudioC1D0:

Re: grub gpt bios boot

buen ouanq writes: > Attempting to install GuixSD as I have before (upgrading to guile@2.2 was > being finicky, so I decided to just do a full fresh install), but today I > encounter this: > >> grub-install: error: > /gnu/store/..grub-2.02/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please > sp

Re: grub not properly installing in GuixSD

Joshua Branson writes: > Yup. That's correct. I am asking about how to modify > > > set root=(hd0,msdos1)(I think this is the vfat system) > > chainloader (${root})/efi/boot/name-of-efi-file.efi > > boot > > > to something like > > > set root=(hd0,msdos1)(I think this is the vfat system

Re: Enable modules in Linux configuration.

Dmitry Nikolaev writes: > But it looks too complex for me. Is there an easier way to enable > additional modules in Linux configuration? Shouldn't I use "extra-options" > in make-linux-libre function? How could I do that? I suppose we could export the various Linux-Libre variables so that the fo

Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit

Arun Isaac writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:46:25PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: >>> On 14/08/17 12:31, Arun Isaac wrote: >>> > Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run >>> > >>> > $ ls | parallel echo >>> > >>> > I get the following error message, and nothing h

Re: List all open bug reports with emacs-debbugs

Arun Isaac writes: >> I was confused too. Ended up with this in my emacs init file ... >> >> (defun view-guix-bugs () >> "view guix bugs." >> (interactive) >> ;; (debbugs-gnu SEVERITIES &optional PACKAGES ARCHIVEDP SUPPRESS TAGS) >> (debbugs-gnu nil "guix" nil nil nil) >> ) > > Thanks!

Re: btrfs and subvolumes for root

m...@strahlungsfrei.de writes: > Am 2017-08-06 05:46, schrieb Fredrik Salomonsson: >> Hello Guix, >> >> I'm testing out setting up a dual boot between GuixSD and Arch. I've >> no idea how much each one will take on disk. I decided to try out >> btrfs and subvolumes for the layout. >> >> But I'm

Re: Does the installation image support UEFI boot?

Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > today I tried installing GuixSD from the installation image > (guixsd-usb-install) into a virtual machine which only supports UEFI and > EUFI CSM. I "installed" the image as CD-ROM drive, but booting failed. If you used the 0.13 release image, it will not work on

Re: How to add a new driver as PPD-file to CUPS?

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Howdy, > > Mekeor Melire skribis: > >> I'd like to print on GuixSD. I'm using the cups-service in my system >> configuration. >> >> How do I add a PPD-file driver for my printer? Do I have to create a >> package for it? > > I don’t know! > >> D [27/Sep/2017:17:05:17

Re: guix pull fails on powerful server

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Is there another work-around I could try on this machine? Using Guile 2.0 worked for me: guix package -r guix guile-git -i guile2.0-guix guile2.0-git signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Foreign Kodi login entry?

Caleb Herbert writes: > I had asked the Kodi forum for support with XBMC. > https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=324201 > > I'd prefer not to. Is there any way I could better integrate Kodi with > Trisquel? > > Specifically, I want to have an option in my display manager to let me > choose

Re: kodi crash, and gdb not found

Marco van Hulten writes: > Hi, > > I have `kodi' and `gdb' installed. When I start kodi, it crashes: > > https://paste.debian.net/996313/ > > An excerpt of the `kodi' output: >> gdb not installed, can't get stack trace. > > but I installed gdb, under the same user: > > kodi@watson ~$ gdb --v

Re: kodi crash, and gdb not found

Marco van Hulten writes: > Marius— > > Je 19 nov 17:36 transskribita far Marius Bakke: >> Marco van Hulten writes: >> > I have `kodi' and `gdb' installed. When I start kodi, it crashes: >> > >> > https://paste.debian.net/996313/ >&g

Re: kodi crash, and gdb not found

Marco van Hulten writes: > Ludovic— > > Je 21 nov 14:21 transskribita far Ludovic Courtès: >> Marco van Hulten skribis: >> >> > $ kodi >> > Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object >> > file: No such file or directory >> >> Guix’s ‘mesa’ package does not pro

Re: Building system for i686

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > as my i686 laptop has only about 1G of memory and thus fails to build a > great many packages (including the guix package itself) I wanted to > build its configuration on my x86_64 laptop. I then copied the system > closure to the i686 laptop with “guix copy

`guix copy` vs grafts

Marius Bakke writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Hi Guix, >> >> as my i686 laptop has only about 1G of memory and thus fails to build a >> great many packages (including the guix package itself) I wanted to >> build its configuration on my x86_64 laptop.

Re: Repeating phases during build process

Rutger Helling writes: > Hey Guix, > > is there a way to tell Guix to repeat an earlier phase when > building? It's possible to call out to a phase like so: (add-after 'check 'check-again (assoc-ref %standard-phases 'check)) You can also grab the phase from another build system (see "notmuch

Re: Seeking best-practice for managing guix-defined VMs

Hartmut Goebel writes: > I wonder about the best-practice for managing VMs built using `guix > system vm`. This is fairly tangential and probably overkill, but I use Ganeti[0] with "ganeti-instance-guix"[1]. That will copy each `guix system vm` to the configured storage backend, so store items

Re: best way to reach QEMU VM desktop on headless GuixSD server

George myglc2 Clemmer writes: > It appears that there are 3 ways to reach a QEMU VM desktop on headless > GuixSD servers: X11, spice, and maybe VNC. Is that right? > > Can anyone comment on which has the best performance. Spice was designed to be a better protocol than VNC for accessing virtual

Re: using guix for ruby development

Divan Santana writes: > Divan Santana writes: > >> Hi all, >> >> So I'm *trying* to use guix on Parabola Linux to provide the rubies and >> replace some other functionality of like chruby for instance. >> >> I'm a bit of a noob with guix and even ruby, so it's a bit of a >> challenge. >> >> I've

Re: guixbuild does not exist???

Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Guixers, > > Today guix greeted me with a strange error message when I tried to > install a package: > >guix package: error: build failed: the group `guixbuild' specified in > `build-users-group' does not exist > > I call this strange because > 1) The group exis

Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?

Marco van Hulten writes: > ("nb" > "Abonner på diskusjonlisten «Help» for å få hjelp om GuixSD og > GNU Guix via e-post. Du kan legge inn meldinger på norsk.") Takk! I think "diskusjonliste" should be "diskusjonsliste" as "diskusjon" is used in a passive infinite form (though good r

Re: Wayland setup

Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Wilms writes: > Hi! > > I finally got Weston to ... fill my screen with a blocky mess and flood > STDERR with failure. > > To recap: > - use-modules freedesktop and xorg > - global packages: xorg-server-xwayland wayland weston %base-packages > - add "weston-launch" group >

Re: system vm fails

Catonano writes: > and from a checked out gix I get > > ~/projects/guix$ sudo ./pre-inst-env guix pull > guix pull: error: Guile-Git is missing but it is now required by 'guix > pull'. > Install it by running: > > guix package -i guile-git > export > GUILE_LOAD_PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/share/

Re: system vm fails (reprise)

Catonano writes: > Ok, so in running > > sudo -E guix ... > > I had messed up my installation, so guix pull didn't work anymore > > I think I fixed it now > > guix pull ust worked, I reconfigured my system > > but this still happens > > $ ./pre-inst-env guix system vm ~/configs/vm-config-desktop.

Re: system vm fails (reprise)

Catonano writes: > ~$ guix system vm ~/configs/vm-config-desktop.scm \ >>--image-size=10GB \ >>--share=$HOME/transit=/transit > guix system: error: build failed: error parsing derivation > `/gnu/store/dp8ywhh22n8ixikqdvsb6w6qbn4iw899-environment.drv': expected > string `Derive([' This is

Re: Custom kernel module woes

Thorsten Wilms writes: > Things were going well until I got to XTS support. With either my custom > configuration, or a default one, XTS is stuck on -*-, i.e. mandatory > built-in. The after-build phase will fail if there's no xts.ko module! > > I tried to figure out the dependencies and failed

Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free firmware. Why is >> it so? > > I did a little bit of searching on the Internet, and it seems to me like > the reason why Linux-libre turns off the ability to load non-free >

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

Oleg Pykhalov writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> >>> Considering the importance of Emacs in this community, I think it would >>> make sense to provide a cutting-edge version. >> >> Do you mean a snapshot of the ‘master’ branch? >> >> We don’t do th

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Qutebrowser is out of date: 0.11.0 in GuixSD, upstream is 1.2.1. > > https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/releases > > Newer versions support qtwebengine, which is not packaged on GuixSD > either. > I was wondering if this has anything to do with non-free software

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> guix package -I local > glibc-utf8-locales2.26.105-g0890d5379cout > /gnu/store/3k6hl20c3b7big8ngrsl6mj9k8xav99d-glibc-utf8-locales-2.26.105-g0890d5379c > >> guix package -I emacs > emacs 25.3out /gnu/store/y335nx4r08m6kg0yrna7spfwr4s05n36-emacs-25.

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> >>>> guix package -I local >>> glibc-utf8-locales 2.26.105-g0890d5379cout >>> /gnu/store/3k6hl20c3b7big8ngrsl6mj9k8xav99d-glibc-utf8-locales-2.26.105-g089

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Can you post the output of these commands in a terminal: >> >> $ locale > > locale: command not found Try: "$(guix build glibc)/bin/locale" instead. And then `ls -l /run/current-system/locale/

Re: Custom kernel module woes

Thorsten Wilms writes: > Now if anyone knows or can figure out how *exactly* to turn XTS's -*- > into a {M}, that would still be good to know. A script that turns any > kernel configuration into a guix-sd-safe one, or changes to make these > gymnastics unnecessary would be great! I recently r

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Clément Lassieur writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> >>> vsftp: Very Secure FTP daemon >>> Upstream URL: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html >>> (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix. Strange... Can >>> anyone >>> recommend any

Re: Multilib support: running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit systems

Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Does that make sense? > > Absolutely, but it gets trickier when trying to run a 32-bit executable > which was not compiled on Guix. > > Any idea how to achieve that easily? > > The way I can think of for now is to run patchelf against the binary to > change the dynamic

Re: Nitrokey and udev rules

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I'm trying to use my nitrokey on GuixSD. > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> gpg --card-status > gpg: selecting openpgp failed: No such device > gpg: OpenPGP card not available: No such device > --8<---cut here---

Re: Conflict resolution (gtk, wayland)

Rutger Helling writes: > I've created a patch to update Mesa on staging, along with removing > wayland-egl from it. I can confirm I can still start GNOME on Wayland > manually after rebuilding with this patch. Excellent, thanks! > Should I apply this to staging now? It's been two weeks since th

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >>> I'm till seeing this problem. >>> >>> > guix --version >>> guix (GNU Guix) d39c9efa11168f5a441ac60b3ed486f2ac0b4c73 >>> >>> > guix pull -l >>> # ... >>> Generation 2Ju

Re: What is GUIX_PROFILE for?

George Clemmer writes: > What is GUIX_PROFILE is for? > > > First question: > > If I log into a GuixSD vm-image w/ 1 package installed ... > > nemo:~ $ ssh g1@sysi34.local > Last login: Fri Jun 22 08:24:11 2018 from fe80::1c82:5c21:6372:5970%eth0 > g1@sysi34 ~$ guix package -I > znc 1.7.0

Re: MTP & Guix

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> >>> Both Gentoo and Guix packages are outdated. >>> 1.37 is out. >>> GVFS has switched to Meson in the mean time. >>> Arch is a little bit more up to date: >>> >>> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tr

Re: How to replace package in system configuration?

Jone writes: > Hello. My question briefly: I want to get a compact base system, but can > not do this by of the dependencies. > > Now for more details: during reconfigure installed a package A. A depend of > B, B depend of C, > C depend of D, .. and all of them I don't need. > Removing package А

Re: EFI entry got removed after system reconfigure

Roel Janssen writes: > Oleg Pykhalov writes: > >> Hello Roel, >> >> Roel Janssen writes: >> >> […] >> >>> So I created a new entry from a LiveUSB using “efibootmgr” to boot into >>> GuixSD again. Is this a known problem […]? >> >> I had this issue a long time ago. [1] >> >> I didn't take an at

Re: Any server recommendations to run Guix System?

amirou...@hypermove.net writes: > Hello all, > > I would like to buy a rack server (from Algeria (North Africa)) to host in a > data center and use Guix System. > Looking up the Internet for rack server offering in Algeria doesn't lead to > good results so far. > So it seems like I will need to

Re: Does not halt after Menu - Logout - Shut down and closing notebook hood

Chris Marusich writes: > writes: > >> [...] And may be I will need >> any other configurations in other services that were not mentioned in >> Guix cgit. >> So how to get their exact names? > > Some (perhaps most) services assume that you are somewhat familiar with > the software in question.

Re: ethernet not loading

nightowl writes: > I just got back to looking at this. I was able to add the > linux-libre-4.4 to my system, the ethernet is visible now, but the > connection is erratic. I am using gnome, but it doesn't automatically > detect the ethernet. Sometimes I can execute the 'ifconfig eth0' up >

Re: Need help porting eDuke32

Hello, HiPhish writes: > Then it fails at this step: > > In file included from source/build/include/mutex.h:10:0, > from source/build/include/osd.h:12, > from source/build/include/baselayer.h:11, > from source/duke3d/src/duke3d.h

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

rce yet, but they seem to be doing the Right Thing (scrubbing non-free and otherwise unneeded stuff). Can you try this patch and ideally get something else (Qutebrowser) to use it? Thanks! From cd873b4b9f22371ef4fcb3990a927d529c81c614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marius Bakke Date: Sun, 19

Re: Can't install gcc

Hi 白い熊, 白い熊 skriver: > Why does “guix package -i gcc” give me: > guix package: error: gcc: unknown package > > I realize about installing gcc-toolchain, but if I just want to install a > single arbitrary package? The 'gcc' package was recently "hidden" so that users don't accidentally install

Re: Tor Service

Raghav Gururajan writes: >> > The Tor daemon received SIGTERM 10 minutes (or even 5 hours?) after it >> > had been started, so something must have happened. Is there anything >> > else in the log that could be useful in that interval? >> > >> >> Nope! There was nothing related to tor in that in

Re: Why are these derivations different?

Jack Hill writes: > Hi Guix, > > I'm trying to copy the store items for ungoogled-chromium from one of my > hosts that has many computational resources to another one that does not, > so that I do not have to build ungoogled-chromium on the less powerful > host. > > However, even after copying

Re: Why are these derivations different?

Jack Hill writes: > On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Jack Hill writes: >> >>> Hi Guix, >>> >>> I'm trying to copy the store items for ungoogled-chromium from one of my >>> hosts that has many computational resources to an

Re: Installing Guix from source

"Reza Alizadeh Majd" writes: > Hi Guix, > > I tried to build Guix from source on an existing version of GuixSD. so I > followed > the instructions provided in official documents: > > https://guix.info/manual/en/html_node/Requirements.html > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_no

Re: /homeless-shelter workaround

Jesse Gibbons writes: > A package I am building fails multiple tests with the following error: > OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/homeless-shelter' > > It is trying to make subdirectories to the builder's $HOME directory, > which does not exist. Is there a standard workaround for this? Y

Re: guix copy connection problems

Jack Hill writes: > Hello Guix, > > I'm trying to use `guix copy` to copy some store items from a more > powerful computer to my laptop. I've tried to set everything up correctly > with ssh-agent, and I can ssh without being prompted for credentials, but > guix-initiated connections are timing

Re: guix pull behind proxy not working

Jorge P. de Morais Neto writes: > Em 2019-07-04T11:05:35+0200, mar...@famic.de escreveu: > >> However, calling `guix pull` and `guix system reconfigure` still fails >> due to unreachable network. Does it need different proxy settings? >> What can I do? > > I have the same problem on a Debian bus

Re: PKG_CONFIG_PATH missing from guix-profile/etc/profile

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hi! > > I've installed webkitgtk+ to a custom profile, and the etc/profile file > does not contain any "export PKG_CONFIG_PATH...". > Because of this, > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ pkg-config --cflags webkit2gtk-4.0 > --8<

Re: core-updates unbound variable

Hello Rene, Rene writes: > ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: ice-9/eval.scm:293:34: error: > repository-working-directory: unbound variable > hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (git repository))'? This means your installed version of Guile-Git is too old: you need version 0.2 or later. Typically `guix e

Re: Tons of packages get rebuild

Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 22.10.19 um 05:27 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: >> I can only think that one of the packages you updated as part of your >> work on the KDE Framework must be a dependency of many others (such as >> Python, or another core tool)? > > Of course the updated package have many d

Re: Kernel Panic

Raghav Gururajan writes: > Whenever I shutdown my system, I end up with kernel panic, 50% of the > time. Can you post a picture or transcript of the kernel panic? Please also include your system configuration and some information about the hardware you are using (i.e. laptop model). > I was wo

Re: reconfigure in failure

Hello Pierre, pirboazo writes: > for several days I can no longer update my system. > > with the last guix : 4c46356 > The update fails during the check phase of the jimtcl-0.77 package. Where is this package from? I can not find it in Guix. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: reconfigure in failure

Jack Hill writes: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Hello Pierre, >> >> pirboazo writes: >> >>> for several days I can no longer update my system. >>> >>> with the last guix : 4c46356 >>> The update fails duri

Re: upgrading systems with <= 2 GiB RAM

Marco van Hulten writes: > Hello— > > I have an oldish amd64 system with 2 GiB of memory, but it is fast > enough to use as a media center. Guix was last updated early this > year. Upgrading it now takes many days. It keeps on swapping (using > quite consistently 2 of 4 GiB of swap available).

Re: upgrading systems with <= 2 GiB RAM

Marco van Hulten writes: > Marius— > > Je 31 okt 23:49 skribis Marius: >> Marco van Hulten writes: >> >> > I have an oldish amd64 system with 2 GiB of memory, but it is fast >> > enough to use as a media center. Guix was last updated early this >> > year. Upgrading it now takes many days. It

Re: `guix install protobuf:static` headers?

zimoun writes: > Dear, > > When I run `guix install protobuf:static -p path/to/profile` then I > expect that the headers are in "path/to/profile" but they are not. > However, they appear without the ":static" flag. > > I am confused. > > Moreover, the static libraries are even copied without the

Re: gfortran seems to require gcc-toolchain

Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Guix, > > I am trying to recompile old Fortran code under Guix. I made an (pure) > environment containing "gfortran" plus a few required tools (make etc.), > but found that every Fortran compilation stops with an error message > complaining about "as" missing. Installin

Re: gfortran seems to require gcc-toolchain

Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:03:37AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Konrad Hinsen writes: >> >> > Hi Guix, >> > >> > I am trying to recompile old Fortran code under Guix. I made an (pure) >> > environment contai

Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

Jan writes: > 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? Did you get the same error when you mounted at /boot/efi? If you want the USB drive to

Re: gfortran seems to require gcc-toolchain

Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Marius, > >> 'as' is part of Binutils, you don't need the entire toolchain. >> >> That said, there are various other workarounds in Guix due to GCC >> (and apparently gfortran) lacking an absolute reference to 'as'. >> >> Can you try the following patch and see if it wo

Re: `guix install protobuf:static` headers?

zimoun writes: > However, is it expected that LIBRARY_PATH is not set? > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ cat /tmp/proto/etc/profile > # Source this file to define all the relevant environment variables in Bash > # for this profile. You may want to define

Tutorial: Running XFCE from Guix on a foreign distribution

Hello Guixers, Here is an end-to-end tutorial for running Guix XFCE on CentOS 7: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/running-a-guix-xfce-desktop-on-centos-7/ It has only been tested on a special CentOS "appliance", but should be easily adaptable to other systemd-based distributions. Please share you

Re: gfortran seems to require gcc-toolchain

Konrad Hinsen writes: > Hi Simon, > >> Maybe a "gfortran-toolchain" package with all the battery included? > > That sounds like a very good idea! And I even volunteer to > implement it. Except if someone comes up with a better > solution of course. Sounds great to me. :-) signature.asc Descri

Re: Installing Guix System on an external hard drive

Jan writes: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:49:23 +0100 > Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Did you get the same error when you mounted at /boot/efi? > Yes. > >> If you want the USB drive to be 'portable', i.e. not tied to a single >> system, you can not use 'g

Re: Tutorial: Running XFCE from Guix on a foreign distribution

zimoun writes: > Hi Marius, > > I have tried on the top of Debian. > > Instead of "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common" in the .xinitrc file, it is > just "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc". Then it works. \o/ Cool, thanks for testing! > However, after a couple of minutes, my normal X session (C-M-F7) using >

Re: how to connect usb gamepad?

Try adding your user to the 'input' group: (user-account ... (supplementary-groups '("input" ...))) ...then reconfigure and reboot your system. If that does not work, please mention which controller you are using and paste the last lines from the `dmesg` command after plugging it in. signatu

Re: Tutorial: Running XFCE from Guix on a foreign distribution

zimoun writes: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 20:09, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> Did you use a different user account? > > No, same user account. Right. For those trying this tutorial at home, I recommend a dedicated user account to prevent conflicts with the other desktop sessio

Re: Fwd: Packaging a cmake C++ header only library requiring C++17

Hi Josh, Josh Marshall writes: > Hello, > > nckd and I have gone back and forth over a few days in IRC trying to > help me out here. I am trying to package magic-enum ( > https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum ) which is a C++ header only > library requiring at least C++ 17, and uses the cmake b

Re: Cannot build libdbi-drivers: "dbd_mysql.c:54:10: fatal error: mysql.h: No such file or directory"

jorge+l...@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto) writes: > For more than a week I have been unable to update Gnucash. One of its > dependencies, libdbi-drivers, fails to build. I have attached the build > log. Hello Jorge, This is fixed with commit 9077cf68ec57c0303ef7746e203c3fe5ed041add. Tha

Re: Creating local variation of match-theme

Jack Hill writes: > Hi, > > It's been a few days, so I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on the > following: It's not pretty, but you could create a package that takes "match-theme" as an input and makes the necessary adjustments. See the 'mariadb/fixed-install-db' variant added in 9077cf68

Re: Creating local variation of match-theme

Jack Hill writes: > Thanks Marius! > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: > >> It's not pretty, but you could create a package that takes "match-theme" >> as an input and makes the necessary adjustments. >> >>

Re: ungoogled-chromium aborts on foreign distro via LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)

Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > if I run the last ungoogled-chromium Guix version in my terminal session > [1] on a Debian 10 server, I get SIGABRT: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > [14913:14913:0110/113833.689067:FATAL:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No > usab

Re: protect generations

Marco van Hulten writes: > Hello— > > One of the great features of Guix is that one can roll back his > profile. But I did a garbage collection (gc) that was too aggressive > such that a relevant old profile disappeared. I presume this is gone > forever. > > Is it possible to lock certain gener

Re: ungoogled-chromium aborts on foreign distro via LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project)

Giovanni Biscuolo writes: >>> The chromium binary from Debian 10 on the same LTSP environment does not >>> have the same problem, it works > > so the Debian binary is working without user namespaces? Chromium has another sandboxing method that relies on a setuid binary, which is what Debian uses

Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT

Ben Sturmfels writes: > For what it's worth, there's a bug report here matching the issue you > describe. The issue appears to affect quite a number of programs. > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35746 Hmm, I thought we had fixed that particular bug with commit 2a80d9e55299214a3f0b4f585767b4

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