timezone offset issues

2020-04-22 Thread divan
Greetings Guixers :) Hope someone here can assist and point me in the right direction. I posted a bug about this too (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40585) Having similar issues to https://issues.guix.info/issue/35746 but not quite the same. I'm having time offset issues in vario

Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

2020-04-22 Thread divan
t;)) (file-system (device "/dev/mapper/crypt") (mount-point "/") (type "ext4") (dependencies mapped-devices)) %base-file-system

Re: guix browsers timezones are set to GMT

2020-02-10 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Ben, Ben Sturmfels writes: > Hi Divan, > > On 4/2/20 3:57 am, di...@santanas.co.za wrote: >> I see timezones in browsers on my guix system are set to GMT. >> >> An example would be qutebrowser and guessing ungoogled-chromium which >> use qtwebengine. >

guix browsers timezones are set to GMT

2020-02-03 Thread divan
Hi Guix I see timezones in browsers on my guix system are set to GMT. An example would be qutebrowser and guessing ungoogled-chromium which use qtwebengine. Example website is browsing to https://play.grafana.org/d/00012/grafana-play-home?orgId=1 in qutebrowser one can run ":jseval alert(ne

Re: pass free(): double free detected in tcache 2

2019-12-09 Thread Divan Santana
> I believe this is the upstream issue: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4762 Looks like that's it. Thanks.

Re: pass free(): double free detected in tcache 2

2019-12-09 Thread Divan Santana
> Could you do me a few things? > > 1. Run `guix describe` > 2. Show me what packages you have listed in your system configuration. > 3. Show me what packages you have installed in your main user-profile. > > From there we might get a better idea of what is going on. Thanks :) Noted for next time.

pass free(): double free detected in tcache 2

2019-12-06 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix Since my guix system update from: Generation 188 Nov 19 2019 22:37:41 file name: /var/guix/profiles/system-188-link canonical file name: /gnu/store/dvj16fi2psiffb8pxpzpfpgrkbkg5nki-system label: GNU with Linux 5.3.10 bootloader: grub-efi root device: /dev/mapper/crypt kernel:

split dns with dnsmasq and networkmanager broken since 1.10.10 -> 1.14.4

2019-10-28 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix, I've configured split DNS with dnsmasq and networkmanager and been using that for quite a while on guix system. Since a recent update this split DNS setup has stopped working. Booting the older guix system confirms all just works. I'm not quite sure what could be wrong. Here is the det

Re: bug#37369: Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

2019-10-03 Thread Divan Santana
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 04:16:40PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: >> So firstly I can't edit the connection as my user, without sudo. Not >> sure if I need to be in some group to do that? >> > > P.S. I use > > (users (con

Re: bug#37369: Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

2019-09-28 Thread Divan Santana
crets_done_cb > being passed what GDB calls an “” as the connection > and crashing in nm_connection_get_setting_by_name. I need to repeat > this nm-connection-editor editing after every reboot. > > Does editing the VPN connection in nm-connection-editor fix the > problem for you,

Re: internal 3g modem

2019-09-28 Thread Divan Santana
pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:35:38PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :) >> >> I'm trying to get the internal 3g modem to work in my Dell lap

Re: bug#37369: Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

2019-09-28 Thread Divan Santana
crets_done_cb > being passed what GDB calls an “” as the connection > and crashing in nm_connection_get_setting_by_name. I need to repeat > this nm-connection-editor editing after every reboot. > > Does editing the VPN connection in nm-connection-editor fix the > problem for

internal 3g modem

2019-09-27 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix, Hopefully someone knowledgeable with these things here can help out. :) I'm trying to get the internal 3g modem to work in my Dell laptop running guix. Ideally with networkmanager/modemmanager would be great. Using nm-connection-editor and selecting mobile broadband, it says can't find

Re: vagrant

2019-09-24 Thread Divan Santana
Hey Chris, Thanks for the helpful reply. >> One of the last packages I miss and would like on my Guix system would >> be vagrant. >> >> I use it for work for testing infra as code. >> >> Anyone else got a way to get it working? I'm surprised it's not yet >> packaged for Guix. > > It would be a gr

vagrant

2019-09-10 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix, One of the last packages I miss and would like on my Guix system would be vagrant. I use it for work for testing infra as code. Anyone else got a way to get it working? I'm surprised it's not yet packaged for Guix. Greetings :) -- Divan

Getting network-manager-openconnect to work

2019-09-10 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix, I'm glad openconnect and network-manager-openconnect are now in Guix! It would be nice to get it to work via network-manager, though I suppose it's not essential. Using openconnect directly works for me. $ sudo openconnect vpn.somewhere.com Trying to get it work via network-manager gi

Re: network-manager-openconnect setup - [External Email]

2019-09-09 Thread divan
>> Trying to use it, after I installed it system wide and rebooted I get >> this; >> >> ~ ᐅ sudo nmcli con up vpn-fnb --ask >> Error: Connection activation failed: The VPN service >> 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openconnect' was not installed. >> >> I read the manual which says: >> >> ‘v

Re: network-manager-openconnect setup - [External Email]

2019-09-09 Thread divan
>> Bonus points for anyone who knows why when I copy and paste into Emacs I >> get these weird characters. >> >>588:24 2 (inferior-package->manifest-entry "network-manager-ope…" …) > > The weird characters above, "…", should be a "HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS" > character "…" with unicode scala

network-manager-openconnect setup

2019-08-10 Thread Santana, Divan
Hi Guix, I'm glad to see network-manager-openconnect is now packaged! :) Thank you to who ever did that. Trying to use it, after I installed it system wide and rebooted I get this; ~ ᐅ sudo nmcli con up vpn-fnb --ask Error: Connection activation failed: The VPN service 'org.freedesktop.Networ

Re: Issues with guix offload

2019-07-21 Thread Divan Santana
> Did you eventually find out? I tried looking through the strace output but didn't come right with that. In the end I just built another box. Was easier to resolve.

Re: Noob issues with maintaining a guix laptop system

2019-06-05 Thread Divan Santana
Julien Lepiller writes: > Le 4 juin 2019 08:17:11 GMT+02:00, ison a écrit : >>Just to be clear, when a reconfigure fails you can make any necessary >>changes >>and run it again. Guix operations are atomic so it doesn't actually >>change the >>state of your system in any way until it finishes. >>

Issues with guix offload

2019-06-03 Thread Divan Santana
Hi All :) So my guix offload to my build box used to work, no troubles. As of late it fails. Perhaps due to an update, or because I renamed the user account on the remote box. I think all is correct in terms of configuration but still fails with the below. Not sure how to further troubleshoot i

Noob issues with maintaining a guix laptop system

2019-06-03 Thread Divan Santana
Hi All, Issues of a noob with no lisp programming skills has in maintaining a guix laptop system. * how to do a system reconfigure on an older guix generation? Sometimes I do a guix pull and attempt a reconfigure. Due to various reasons, the reconfigure may fail. I now want to do a reconfigure,

Re: getting applications from Nix to have access to fonts

2019-04-29 Thread Santana, Divan
Benjamin Slade writes: > I'm having trouble getting external applications, specifically things > installed via Nix, to have access to fonts, which often is the > difference between them working or not working. > > For instance, I installed Gargoyle (the text adventure/interactive > fiction interp

Running docker safely on guixsd

2019-02-06 Thread Divan Santana
dent. I'm just wondering what's best practice from a security perspective to run docker images on guixsd? Would be nice perhaps if there was a way to block privileged docker containers by default. Any suggestions and input on around this would be appreciated. Divan

Re: Some general guix questions

2019-01-09 Thread Divan Santana
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > 1. System-wide installation means packages are readily available to all users, >which can be nice, but users then don't have the freedom to remove them. >For maximal flexibility, it's often best to leave system-wide packages to > the >bare minimum and let u

Re: Some general guix questions

2019-01-09 Thread Divan Santana
George Clemmer writes: > Divan Santana writes: > >> Hi great guix community, >> >> 1. What is the recommendations around when to install a package system >>wide (via guix system reconfigure manifest.scm) vs in your user >>profile? I'm co

Re: Some general guix questions

2019-01-09 Thread Divan Santana
Tonton writes: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2019 18:43:06 +0200 > Divan Santana wrote: > >> 3. If I run guix system vm --fallback system.scm I get a vm I can run, >>which is really awesome. If I then do a guix pull and guix system >>vm --fallback system.scm I get /anoth

Some general guix questions

2019-01-08 Thread Divan Santana
x pull and guix system vm --fallback system.scm I get /another/ VM which I can run. How is the previous VMs garbage collected, I wonder? Thanks very much, -- Divan

guix gc error: build failed: executing SQLite statement: FOREIGN KEY constraint failed

2018-08-18 Thread Divan Santana
Hi All, Not sure why my guix gc is doing this. How can I go about fixing this? guix gc results in --8<---cut here---start->8--- deleting `/gnu/store/lxnis4mw71rd0pvjrhs6dyl5ijzgn08b-imagemagick-6.9.10-8-doc' guix gc: error: build failed: executing SQLite stat

Re: guixsd system reconfigure errors

2018-08-05 Thread Divan Santana
>> adding group 'tty'... >> groupadd: GID '996' already exists >> >> [...] >> >> Not sure if the system got in a strange state as a result of me changing >> my first user accounts name. Perhaps. > > Could you share a minimal operating system configuration file that > reproduces the issue, and descr

guixsd system reconfigure errors

2018-07-23 Thread Divan Santana
d not be started. --8<---cut here---end--->8--- The last two lines. Are these normal safe to ignore errors? Known bug or something specific to my system? Thanks, -- Divan

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

2018-07-23 Thread Divan Santana
Alex Kost writes: > Hello, > > People often ask how they can use startx/xinit on GuixSD. It is > possible, although it is not as easy as on other distros. Hopefully, > this tutorial will answer some questions on the subject. > > At first, a couple of points: > > - We will run X server with user

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

2018-07-19 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Alex, Alex Kost writes: > People often ask how they can use startx/xinit on GuixSD. It is > possible, although it is not as easy as on other distros. Hopefully, > this tutorial will answer some questions on the subject. This is really great and appreciated. Thank you very much. -- Divan

Re: root certificate

2018-06-12 Thread Divan Santana
myg...@gmail.com writes: > On 06/11/2018 at 12:59 Joshua Branson writes: > >> Divan Santana writes: >> >>> Hi Guix :) >>> >>> How does one import a root certificate for GuixSD? >> >> This probably isn't helpful, but what i

Re: root certificate

2018-06-12 Thread Divan Santana
Joshua Branson writes: > Divan Santana writes: > >> Hi Guix :) >> >> How does one import a root certificate for GuixSD? > > This probably isn't helpful, but what is a root certificate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_certificate In cryptography and compu

root certificate

2018-06-11 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Guix :) How does one import a root certificate for GuixSD? I didn't see it in the manual. (Hopefully I didn't miss it. I need to read up on using info within Emacs better.) -- Divan

cssh doesn't seem to work out the box

2018-05-08 Thread Divan Santana
store/0ckwbr6jvbs3mq5i46kmn4cyhriv3sqj-clusterssh-3.28/bin/.cssh-real line 66. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /gnu/store/0ckwbr6jvbs3mq5i46kmn4cyhriv3sqj-clusterssh-3.28/bin/.cssh-real line 66. Does this work for anyone else? On guixsd. -- Divan

dvorak

2018-05-07 Thread Divan Santana
/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Manual_configuration_of_core_image_for_early_boot For the console once booted up (console-keymap-service "dvorak") works. For X, I'd like to configure it in .xsession on .xinitrc or the i3 config. I think that won't be a problem and have seen examples for that. -- Divan

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-19 Thread Divan Santana
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Divan! > > Thank you for taking the time to write to us about the problem. These > kinds of but reports are very helpful! Your welcome. Thanks for the great reply. > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018, 06:43 Divan Santana wrote: > >> OK, I think this

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-19 Thread Divan Santana
myg...@gmail.com writes: > On 04/16/2018 at 20:04 Divan Santana writes: > >> Hi Guix, >> >> So I'm installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive. >> >> This is obviously quite useful to test and setup all before you switch >> to it. I plan to ev

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-17 Thread Divan Santana
Divan Santana writes: > Hi Guix, > > So I'm installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive. > > This is obviously quite useful to test and setup all before you switch > to it. I plan to eventually install on laptop. > > I could do it in a VM but... > > Anyway,

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-17 Thread Divan Santana
t of code* but it errors out with: > usb_storage module not found. Hence, it's obviously reading the code since it produces a diff error. The Q is why it doesn't find the module. -- Divan

Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-16 Thread Divan Santana
he code to specify mod usb-storage (not _). However I then get the orig error, that I should add usb_storage mod in initrd-modules. Suppose the question is why is usb_storage not found? Any ideas? (sorry for lack of exact messages, don't have remote access to system at mo) -- Divan

Re: using guix for ruby development

2018-02-23 Thread Divan Santana
Christopher Baines writes: > Divan Santana writes: > >> Divan Santana writes: >>> Is there a simple way of getting these gems installed to use guix system >>> libs so things don't break? >> >> So for this particular project I managed to get i

Re: using guix for ruby development

2018-02-23 Thread Divan Santana
Marius Bakke writes: > 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. &

using guix for ruby development

2018-02-15 Thread Divan Santana
7f6af4cc4000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x7f6af4978000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f6af45c1000) /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f6af574c000) I could install ruby-nokogiri via guix but that provides 1.8 and I need 1.7. :( Is there a simple way of getting these gems installed to use guix system libs so things don't break? -- Divan

Re: using guix for ruby development

2018-02-15 Thread Divan Santana
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. >

ledger fails to install - 5 tests failed out of 352

2017-09-30 Thread Divan Santana
ed guix system: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/f548wcr2crf7a8ghrn34xk37p65j5isc-ledger-3.1.1.drv' failed #+END_EXAMPLE What can one do to fix this error and get it working again? Suppose we could install an older version of ledger if there is an older version in the substitutes (correct word?) if it exists. -- Divan

Re: Issues with my configuration - zsh shell default

2017-07-05 Thread Divan Santana
Fredrik Salomonsson writes: [...] > 2) > >> There is no module “(gnu packages zsh)”. “zsh” is now in “(gnu packages >> shells)”. > > > >> (use-package-modules shells) >> (users (cons (user-account >> (name "admin") >> (comment "") >> (group "u

Re: Issues with my configuration - zsh shell default

2017-07-04 Thread Divan Santana
I reconfigure. > > Not sure about this one. Your config looks okay to me. I’m not using > this myself, so I don’t know if there’s a bug in our documentation. > >> I've also noticed some odd issues with my keyboards that are running the qmk >> firmware <https://github.c

Re: Using tramp with guixsd install image

2017-07-02 Thread Divan Santana
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Divan Santana skribis: > > [...] > >>> The VM image should contain a valid /bin/sh already, doesn’t it? >> >> No it doesn't. >> >> There is no '/bin/sh' on the guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux.xz >&g

Re: guixsd install questions

2017-07-01 Thread Divan Santana
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Divan Santana skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > >>> My guess is that you’d need to explicitly mark one of the mapped device >>> as depending on the other; this cannot be guessed. >>> >>> If y

Re: Using tramp with guixsd install image

2017-07-01 Thread Divan Santana
Alex Kost writes: > Divan Santana (2017-06-30 22:15 +0200) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Trying to use my emacs (on arch linux) with the guixsd system from the >> 0.13 image and ssh-daemon. By image, this is a fresh VM booted >> guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_

Re: Using tramp with guixsd install image

2017-07-01 Thread Divan Santana
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Divan Santana skribis: > >> env /bin/sh no such file >> >> If in the VM, I do a hack like >> >> ln -s /run/current-system/profile/bin/sh /bin/sh >> >> Then tramp works without issue. >> >> How can one conf

Re: guixsd install questions

2017-06-30 Thread Divan Santana
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Divan Santana skribis: > >> Then do the install with this guile code: >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme >> ;; two devices in raid0 striped with LUKS full disk encryption. >> (bootloader (grub-configuration

Using tramp with guixsd install image

2017-06-30 Thread Divan Santana
ramp buffer that pops up briefly and reports env /bin/sh no such file If in the VM, I do a hack like ln -s /run/current-system/profile/bin/sh /bin/sh Then tramp works without issue. How can one configure tramp to work without the above hack? (sorry this is more of an emacs then guix question) Divan

Re: Security questions around using Guix to package apps

2017-06-30 Thread Divan Santana
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Divan, > > Divan Santana skribis: > >> If guix is installed on a system and configured to point to substitutes >> that the same nonroot user has access to submit and approve packages in, >> can that nonroot user on the system gain

Re: Security questions around using Guix to package apps

2017-06-30 Thread Divan Santana
Leo Famulari writes: > Hello! > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:19:24AM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: >> Though the customers/users require to ship applications. They normally do >> this >> with something like RPMs and a yum repository. >> >> The problem with

Security questions around using Guix to package apps

2017-06-27 Thread Divan Santana
0= should solve this. 2. Ship a sudo file and install it in =/etc/sudoers.d= though I'm not sure if that's possible with Guix since it's kind of it it's own chroot. Unless it supports post-scripts section and that gets executed as root (doubt it). Hope the above makes sens

Re: guixsd install questions

2017-02-04 Thread Divan Santana
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Divan Santana skribis: > >> Then do the install with this guile code: >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme >> ;; two devices in raid0 striped with LUKS full disk encryption. >> (bootloader (grub-configuration (devic

Re: guixsd install questions

2017-02-04 Thread Divan Santana
t; ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key >> `which sshd` >> passwd root >> #+END_EXAMPLE >> >> Sure there's a better way then the above hack? > > Hi Divan, > > That is a nasty hack indeed. Yet it's about the best app

guixsd install questions

2017-01-27 Thread Divan Santana
hing wrong. I've done the following On tt1 I did =herd stop guix-daemon= Then exported proxy like so: export http_proxy=http://server.domain.co.za:8080/ ; export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy ; export https_proxy=$http_proxy =herd start guix-daemon= =guix package -i something= and note the proxy is not working. Try do the install =guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt= and note the proxy env is not being used. Greetings from South Africa :) -- Best regards, Divan Santana

Re: Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me

2016-05-10 Thread Divan Santana
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Divan Santana writes: > >> 1) virt-manager - Since I may rely on a few VMs more as GuixSD has >> limited packages for now. Unless there is another easy way to run VMs? >> I'm not too familar with using qemu directly... > > virt-manag

Switching to GuixSD - some packages missing for me

2016-05-06 Thread Divan Santana
ssentials for me are there. Excited to see the progress with the distro. Wish you all the best of luck and hope one day in the future to get involved - can't at the moment. -- Best regards, Divan Santana