Re: Can't configure guix, no guile-sqlite3
On 17.06.2018 22:24, Thorsten Wilms wrote: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git cd guix *add package definition, commit right here, or maybe later* guix environment guix ./bootstrap ./configure --localstatedir=/var ./pre-inst-env guix package -i *new-package* configure fails with: checking whether Guile-Sqlite3 is available and recent enough... no Since there was no solution, I completely removed guix (in particlar, rm'ed the store and stuff below /var) and started again with the 0.15.0 binary tarball. On trying to bring everything in my manifest back, I got: --- guix package: error: build failed: some substitutes for the outputs of derivation `/gnu/store/wzb55yvxjyymzivya50nkjcyxnmysm3r-nss-certs-3.38.drv' failed (usually happens due to networking issues); try `--fallback' to build derivation from source --- OK, that happened last time, too, same solution: guix package --fallback -i nss-certs. Back to main concern: configure now (after several guix pull) fails with: --- configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 >= 3.6.19) were not met: No package 'sqlite3' found --- -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/
Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
On 23.07.2018 10:43, Divan Santana wrote:
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 privileges, so if something goes wrong,
look at the X log, which is placed at "~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.N.log"
by default.
- We will run "xinit", not "startx": the latter is just a wrapper that
does some preparations and runs "xinit". (startx is a usual shell
script with a usual script's behavior: it does not like that Guix
violates Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so it successfully fails to
start).
Now the steps you need to do to use "xinit":
1. Install xinit, X server and required modules to some guix profile,
for example:
guix package -i xinit xorg-server xf86-input-libinput xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-nouveau
2. Make "~/.xinitrc" file. If you don't know what its content should
be, just put "exec xterm" there, or even better read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit
3. Running "xinit" requires specifying multiple arguments, so you will
probably make an auxiliary script to run it. This script will look
like this:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
#!/bin/sh
DIR=$HOME/.guix-profile
$DIR/bin/xinit -- $DIR/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 -keeptty \
-configdir $DIR/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
-modulepath $DIR/lib/xorg/modules
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Note that using the current terminal ("vt1" in this case) and
"-keeptty" is required, otherwise X server refuses to start without
root privileges.
For testing purposes, you may change the above arguments to ":1 vt2",
switch to vt2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and run this script.
4. Finally (if the above script works), you can remove login manager
from your os services (if you use %desktop-services):
--8<---cut here---start->8---
(use-modules
;; ...
(srfi srfi-1) ; for 'remove'
(gnu services desktop)
(gnu services xorg))
(operating-system
;; ...
(services
(remove (lambda (service)
(eq? (service-kind service) slim-service-type))
%desktop-services)))
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
To help others, a few other notes.
To auto start x upon login one can do something like
--8<---cut here---start->8---
(mingetty-service (mingetty-configuration
(tty "tty1")
(auto-login "ds")))
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
And this in you bashrc/zshrc.
--8<---cut here---start->8---
if [[ ! $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then
exec $HOME/bin/startx.sh
fi
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Also I needed to set these in order for my icons to be detected
again. Failing to do so, the icons aren't found and some apps crash like
libreoffice.
--8<---cut here---start->8---
export
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/run/current-system/profile/share:$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share"
export
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Hi, I have an idea about this problem. How ever my understanding is very
limited so take care to do additional research:
I'm still strangely getting this error when my terminals (termite)
launch since switching to this method:
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
Not sure why that is yet.
There is a shell variable $TERM. Also there is a '/usr/share/terminfo/'
directory with some definitions about the various terminals. If a
description of terminal is missing from '/usr/share/terminfo/' it is
possible to see this message from some command-line utilities.
Start with searching the man page of 'tset', 'reset' and 'terminfo'
commands.
Best regards,
Radoslav Petrov
guixsd system reconfigure errors
Hi Guix, A couple of errors I get upon a reconfigure: --8<---cut here---start->8--- adding group 'tty'... groupadd: GID '996' already exists --8<---cut here---end--->8--- --8<---cut here---start->8--- ~ ᐅ sudo grep tty /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group Password: ~ ᐅ sudo grep 996 /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/passwd:nobody:x:65534:996::/nonexistent:/gnu/store/1g9r9lk412srqwggv1wv33j4fby7jpg1-shadow-4.6/sbin/nologin /etc/passwd:ntpd:x:999:996:NTP daemon user:/var/empty:/gnu/store/1g9r9lk412srqwggv1wv33j4fby7jpg1-shadow-4.6/sbin/nologin /etc/passwd:geoclue:x:996:981:GeoClue daemon user:/var/empty:/run/current-system/profile/sbin/nologin /etc/group:nogroup:x:996: --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Not sure if the system got in a strange state as a result of me changing my first user accounts name. Perhaps. How can I fix the above? Secondly: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix system: unloading service 'term-auto'... shepherd: Removing service 'term-auto'... shepherd: Done. guix system: loading new services: user-homes term-auto... shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") #). shepherd: Service user-homes could not be started. shepherd: Service term-auto could 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: Fish shell error: __fish_pwd in command substitution called on standard input
After a recent update things are back to normal... Not sure what happened. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager
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 privileges, so if something goes wrong,
> look at the X log, which is placed at "~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.N.log"
> by default.
>
> - We will run "xinit", not "startx": the latter is just a wrapper that
> does some preparations and runs "xinit". (startx is a usual shell
> script with a usual script's behavior: it does not like that Guix
> violates Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, so it successfully fails to
> start).
>
> Now the steps you need to do to use "xinit":
>
> 1. Install xinit, X server and required modules to some guix profile,
>for example:
>
> guix package -i xinit xorg-server xf86-input-libinput xf86-video-fbdev
> xf86-video-nouveau
>
> 2. Make "~/.xinitrc" file. If you don't know what its content should
>be, just put "exec xterm" there, or even better read:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit
>
> 3. Running "xinit" requires specifying multiple arguments, so you will
>probably make an auxiliary script to run it. This script will look
>like this:
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> #!/bin/sh
>
> DIR=$HOME/.guix-profile
>
> $DIR/bin/xinit -- $DIR/bin/Xorg :0 vt1 -keeptty \
>-configdir $DIR/share/X11/xorg.conf.d \
>-modulepath $DIR/lib/xorg/modules
> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>
> Note that using the current terminal ("vt1" in this case) and
> "-keeptty" is required, otherwise X server refuses to start without
> root privileges.
>
> For testing purposes, you may change the above arguments to ":1 vt2",
> switch to vt2 (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and run this script.
>
> 4. Finally (if the above script works), you can remove login manager
>from your os services (if you use %desktop-services):
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> (use-modules
> ;; ...
> (srfi srfi-1) ; for 'remove'
> (gnu services desktop)
> (gnu services xorg))
>
> (operating-system
> ;; ...
> (services
>(remove (lambda (service)
> (eq? (service-kind service) slim-service-type))
>%desktop-services)))
> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
To help others, a few other notes.
To auto start x upon login one can do something like
--8<---cut here---start->8---
(mingetty-service (mingetty-configuration
(tty "tty1")
(auto-login "ds")))
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
And this in you bashrc/zshrc.
--8<---cut here---start->8---
if [[ ! $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]]; then
exec $HOME/bin/startx.sh
fi
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Also I needed to set these in order for my icons to be detected
again. Failing to do so, the icons aren't found and some apps crash like
libreoffice.
--8<---cut here---start->8---
export
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/run/current-system/profile/share:$HOME/.guix-profile/share:/run/current-system/profile/share"
export
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/xdg:/run/current-system/profile/etc/xdg"
export XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$HOME/.config"
export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$HOME/.cache"
export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
I'm still strangely getting this error when my terminals (termite)
launch since switching to this method:
tput: unknown terminal "xterm-termite"
Not sure why that is yet.
