Hi Peter!
On Sat, 4 May 2019, 10:19 Peter Faller, <pgfal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi - > > My first attempt to install Guix failed - sorry, I don't have details, but > I think it may have had something to do with selecting too many window > managers. So I tried again, selecting only GNOME. > Did you delete the VM and started al over again or just reconfigured? > The installation appeared to work (no obvious errors), but the graphical > login failed for both root and my user account. Logging in via Ctrl-Alt-F1 > to a console worked, but no commands were available - not even 'ls' or > 'cd'. I could run some commands by typing in the full, long, > '....profile...' command name; but there's something seriously wrong with > having to do that. > > I couldn't find an installation log that might be helpful; but if there is > such a thing that might be useful for troubleshooting, let me know. > I run virtualbox too because it was the first one I learnt but for the distro I suggest using qemu. I have also an Ubuntu host and after struggling for a week (because the tool was new to me) I made it work. Regards! Laura
