bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user

2016-02-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Heya all... guix system config attached. I tried doing a guix system > reconfigure and it failboat'ed. Here's what happened: > > adding user 'postgres'... > useradd: group 'postgres' does not exist Normally just above that there

bug#22629: Towards a new 'guix pull'

2016-02-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Here’s a series of improvements that I think we should make in ‘guix pull’: • Use Git instead of downloading a whole snapshot every time. The Git checkout would be kept in ~/.cache/guix/pull/checkouts, say. A related question is whether to use Git itself, which is pretty big

bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm

2016-02-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 09:50:09AM +1100, Jookia wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > > So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work. In fact, even > > starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system. > > Not only does

bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm

2016-02-11 Thread Jookia
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:26:12AM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work. In fact, even > starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system. > Not only does "guix system vm" not work, even "guix system vm-image" can >

bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user

2016-02-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >> >>> Heya all... guix system config attached. I tried doing a guix system >>> reconfigure and it failboat'ed. Here's what happened: >>> >>>

bug#22633: Provide a kvm-less qemu / guix system vm

2016-02-11 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
So on my Libreboot-enabled machine, KVM does not work. In fact, even starting qemu with KVM enabled on it appears to crash my whole system. Not only does "guix system vm" not work, even "guix system vm-image" can take the whole machine down! It would be nice to have a --no-kvm switch, because

bug#22626: Postgres service fails on adding user

2016-02-11 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Heya all... guix system config attached. I tried doing a guix system >> reconfigure and it failboat'ed. Here's what happened: >> >> adding user 'postgres'... >> useradd: group 'postgres' does not exist