bug#27684: Can't build disk-images or vm-images on core-updates

2017-07-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 04:02:14PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The log shows that building the disk-image derivation starts with: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > creating raw image of 102400.00 MiB... > Formatting '/gnu/store/yv5r65584aaml86hc0xrgyffnp70

bug#27636: /dev/kvm went missing on i686, Linux 4.12

2017-07-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mark H Weaver writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Since the update to Linux 4.12 my i686 machine no longer has /dev/kvm. >> I ran “modprobe kvm” successfully, and “lsmod” shows “kvm”, but the >> device node does not exist. >> >> Running “modprobe kvm-intel” prints: >> >> modprobe: ERROR:

bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD"

2017-07-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Done with commit 0862b95433cacf91e44248097caa09119fc532a6. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD"

2017-07-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 17/07/17 19:17, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:> Hi T G-R, > Yeah, that was me. I don't understand how an actual operating system > on a drive is an image. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, dunno, but I think > an image is something that is made up by light rays on a screen, not > the real object. In the c

bug#27735: [PATCH 1/2] build, vm: Use a slightly less generic label.

2017-07-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Danny, On 17/07/17 19:20, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Dash is invalid. Otherwise OK! Good to know (I consider you an expert on file system label esoterica, mainly so I don't have to be). Thanks! Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#27735: [PATCH 1/2] build, vm: Use a slightly less generic label.

2017-07-17 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Dash is invalid. Otherwise OK!

bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD"

2017-07-17 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi T G-R, On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:40:56 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > The installer's now expects exactly one "GuixSD" partition when booting > — at least on UEFI. If the GRUB finds two, the GRUB will randomly > choose. In my case, the GRUB chose a frozen system. Sorry! > The real proble

bug#27735: [PATCH 1/2] build, vm: Use a slightly less generic label.

2017-07-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/build/vm.scm (initialize-hard-disk): Use "GuixSD-image" as label. * gnu/system/install.scm (installation-os): Likewise. * gnu/system/vm.scm (system-disk-image): Likewise. --- Or GuixSD-bikeshed or whatever. gnu/build/vm.scm | 7 +-- gnu/system/install.scm | 2 +- gnu/system/vm.sc

bug#27735: Unbootable images with GuixSD on... "GuixSD"

2017-07-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix, [I lost most hours of sleep to this. I might ramble more than usual.] The default label for images was recently changed[1] to "GuixSD". While I think it's a fine label, that's also a problem: I've been using it for years for my root partitions. And when one broke last night, I couldn't use

bug#27684: Can't build disk-images or vm-images on core-updates

2017-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari skribis: > Both `guix system disk-image` and `guix system vm-image` fail for me on > core-updates. Read-only VMs seem to work fine. I'm currently checking to > see if it fails when building on GuixSD. The log shows that building the disk-image derivation starts with: --8<-

bug#27733: GCC compiler error when building LibreOffice 5.3.2.2

2017-07-17 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, While attempting to install LibreOffice 5.3.2.2 with the following command: ./pre-inst-env guix package -i libreoffice -c 1 -M 1 GCC crashed with the following message: --8<---cut here---start->8--- [build CXX] sw/source/uibase/app/apphdl.cxx [build CX

bug#27732: Changing display manager can render system unbootable

2017-07-17 Thread ng0
Marius Bakke transcribed 1.6K bytes: > Hello! > > When changing display manager in the system configuration and invoking > `guix system reconfigure`, the existing desktop environment will be > killed. If you invoked the command from within said desktop environment, > the reconfigure command will b

bug#27732: Changing display manager can render system unbootable

2017-07-17 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello! When changing display manager in the system configuration and invoking `guix system reconfigure`, the existing desktop environment will be killed. If you invoked the command from within said desktop environment, the reconfigure command will be forcefully terminated. If you're unlucky, this