Re: Guix Pull SSL Cert Invalid Old PC

2019-09-23 Thread nightowl
Thanks, That works! I am really glad to have my old PC back up again. Going to have more fun with Guix now and see what works well on an old machine. All the best On 2019-09-22 11:20 pm, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Greetings, fellow night owl, nightowl 写道: Why would the old computer

Guix Pull SSL Cert Invalid Old PC

2019-09-22 Thread nightowl
I have installed guix sd on an old ibm 32bit laptop (PentiumII), but after booting up into the new system, I have trouble running guix pull command to update the system store. It complains that the SSL certificate is invalid. Because of limitations with the 32 bit machine, I had to install

Re: GNOME no thumbnails?

2019-05-22 Thread nightowl
to be configured somhow? On 2019-05-22 9:16 am, Timothy Sample wrote: Hi nightowl, nightowl writes: Does anyone have a problem getting jpg and png picture files to have thumbnail previews shown in the file browser (nautilus)? My instance of GNOME does not appear to be generaterating the thumbnail images

GNOME no thumbnails?

2019-05-20 Thread nightowl
Does anyone have a problem getting jpg and png picture files to have thumbnail previews shown in the file browser (nautilus)? My instance of GNOME does not appear to be generaterating the thumbnail images.

jami-client-gnome not connecting to daemon

2019-04-10 Thread nightowl
I have been trying out the jami-client-gnome application. I had this working between two computers, one running guixSD, but after I updated the guix distribution, I get an error when I start jami. It says, 'could not re-connect to the jami daemon' Then it quits. The last couple of updates

Re: error building grub during update

2019-03-25 Thread nightowl
How do you rebase to a newer commit? On 2019-03-24 11:47 pm, John Soo wrote: Hi nightowl, I had this error recently too. I think rebasing to a newer commit fixed it for me. Since fixing the problem did involve reconfiguring again It could be something else though. maybe something

error building grub during update

2019-03-24 Thread nightowl
I was attempting to update my system using guix pull followed by a system reconfigure, and I get the following error reported when it is attempting to build grub: root@mypc ~# guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'...

Re: printing pdf with evince

2019-02-20 Thread nightowl
t does not say anything about substitution unless I am misreading it. Maybe your problem is somewhat different, though they both relate to the fonts in some way. On 2019-02-19 10:23 pm, Eric Bavier wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:28:35 -0600 nightowl wrote: I recently notice that when I try

printing pdf with evince

2019-02-19 Thread nightowl
I recently notice that when I try to send a pdf document to the printer using the gnome viewer evince, it will not print text. For comparison, I can also print a pdf document from within the icecat browser, and it works good. Anyone know why evince would behave this way when printing hard

Re: ethernet not loading

2019-01-31 Thread nightowl
for another time. Thanks. On 2019-01-31 4:25 pm, Marius Bakke wrote: 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

gnome printer administration

2019-01-25 Thread nightowl
I have added the cups service to my configuration in guixsd. I am able to add a printer and manage it from the web administration page (localhost:136) but in the gnome printer administration tool settings can not be changed. How do I get settings to be accessible in gnome administration

openvpn

2019-01-23 Thread nightowl
Is it possible to have vpn set up in gnome on a guixsd installation? I am trying this and having some trouble. I have added the openvpn and network-manager-openvpn packages to my config.scm file. I also set the services as follows: (services (cons* (gnome-desktop-service)

Re: ethernet not loading

2019-01-23 Thread nightowl
and connect. Other times it gives me an out of memory message. On 2019-01-10 10:56 pm, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi nightowl, please always keep the mailing list copied in your replies. I have since reinstalled guixsd 0.16.0 on my machine Since Guix is stateless, reinstallation is rarely ever

ethernet not loading

2019-01-09 Thread nightowl
I have not been able to get my ethernet to connect. I have a Broadcom BCM4401-B0 chip set using B44 driver. I use dmesg command and see following message: b44 ssb0:0: Required 30 BIT MASK unsupported by system. Is there a way around this? As an independent test, I have tried the Trisquel 8

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-30 Thread nightowl
think it has more to do with the new icecat version than something with the system upgrade. On 30.09.2018 17:20, Mike Gerwitz wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:27:11 +0200, nightowl wrote: Thanks all for the help and advice on handling package upgrades and memory management. I have been able

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-29 Thread nightowl
: nightowl writes: I have been trying to upgrade the icecat package. I am using the 'guix system reconfigure' command, but seem to be running out of disk space. Generally, I recommend keeping the user profile separate from a lean system profile. This allows you to upgrade your system even

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-26 Thread nightowl
to that package. Does that make sense? I will try this tomorrow and let you know if it upgrades ok and if it fixes the tab crash problem. On 27.09.2018 04:26, Mike Gerwitz wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 03:36:40 +0200, nightowl wrote: I am currently using version 52.6.0 (64bit). That looks

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-26 Thread nightowl
I am currently using version 52.6.0 (64bit). That looks like the latest released version. The guix package command also reports this as the latest version. How do you get to version 60? On 26.09.2018 07:03, Mike Gerwitz wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:38:33 +0200, nightowl wrote: I am

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-25 Thread nightowl
I am running GuixSD on a 2008 model Dell Inspiron with I believe to be an Intel T5300 core 2 CPU. I have only just started using GuixSD for less than a year now, and still on the learning curve. So, do you think the tab crash I see with Icecat could be related to the hardware on my PC? On

GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-22 Thread nightowl
I am running GuixSD with the Gnome desktop using GNU Icecat for a web browser. I have been seeing a problem that some web sights like homedepot.com will cause a 'gah your tab just crashed' error. When I start Icecat in safe mode, I do not get this error. Disabling all extensions does not