bug#52375: webkitgtk needs gst-plugins-bad

2021-12-20 Thread Jack Hill
I asked about this issue on #webkitgtk:gnome.org on IRC. It turns out that what's missing from my environment is gst-plugins-bad (most likely the fakevideosink plugin contained therein). If I install gst-plugins-bad into an environment with a webgkitgtk browser, the crash I was seeing is

bug#52694: time-machine error when leaping from version-1.2.0 to version-1.4.0

2021-12-20 Thread zimoun
Hi Carl, On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 17:28, Carl Dong wrote: > $ guix time-machine --branch=version-1.2.0 -- time-machine > --commit=6dffced09ecda024e0884e352778c221ad066fd6 -- describe This works for me: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix time-machine

bug#52694: time-machine error when leaping from version-1.2.0 to version-1.4.0

2021-12-20 Thread Carl Dong
Hi all, A fellow Bitcoin developer has submitted a patch bumping our time-machine to a commit on the version-1.4.0 branch for testing. While testing that change, a few developers encountered a bug in the time-machine script. I’ve been able to distill it down to a reproducible form: $ guix

bug#52684: [BUG] Multiple Packages Failing to Build

2021-12-20 Thread zimoun
Hi, Thanks for your report. It is collateral issue of recent core-updates merge which major updates. Almost was fine, except sparse packages which seem broken. The commit merging core-updates is 6dffced09e (where the one you mention 2c469f0 is a direct descendant), so the 2 parents are:

bug#52539: Fwd: Comments in /etc/passwd don't get updated

2021-12-20 Thread Jacob First
Changing the shell indeed causes the comment to be updated. If lazy update is the correct behavior, then the docs about user accounts are a bit misleading: "When booting or upon completion of guix system reconfigure, the system ensures that only the user accounts and groups specified in the

bug#51787: Disk performance on ci.guix.gnu.org

2021-12-20 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Do you mean time the copy or time the removal from that storage? You > know what, I’ll time both. I’ll need to get more space first. I think > the trash directory is larger than the 500G that I got for testing the > SAN. Yeah I meant removal time :) I found this article[1] that

bug#52671: glibc patch causes crash on failure to find path to executable

2021-12-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ivan Kozlov skribis: > glibc-dl-cache.patch causes segmentation fault when _dl_get_origin fails > (which should be harmless unless there is $ORIGIN in RUNPATH). I found this > when running a dynamically linked executable as ‘init’, before /proc was > mounted. There needs to be an origin

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> Can we instead use for these purposes? It is already >> there, just unused. BTW, for the purposes of fixing the bug you initially reported, I suggest simply adding #:multicast-on #t as you initially proposed. We discuss the proper API separately. > Mmh, indeed.

bug#51787: GC takes more than 9 hours on berlin

2021-12-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
My colleague extended the SAN slice to 5TB for more realistic testing. I formatted the disk with btrfs, and mounted it like this: mount /dev/sdd /mnt_test/ Then I ran the test with block size 512k: --8<---cut here---start->8--- root@berlin ~# fio

bug#52686: menus in qt programs not visible or appearing far away on wayland

2021-12-20 Thread bdju
guix system guix (GNU Guix) b3a0db7a0e5fa7186c090647cfd5666e2b9287ff sway In keepassxc the menus don't show anything when clicked. (actually, I restarted it and now they work, but leaving that in to show it was multiple programs) In pcmanfm-qt the menus at the top as well as the right click menu

bug#52684: [BUG] Multiple Packages Failing to Build

2021-12-20 Thread Christopher Rodriguez
   __     [BUG] MULTIPLE PACKAGES FAILING TO BUILD     rodnchr    __ Table of Contents _ 1. Environment 2. Steps to reproduce 3.

bug#52682: installer freezes when ci.guix.gnu.org cannot be reached

2021-12-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Today I got another chance to try the installer. I first used the latest installer image from today (which failed to install Guix because of a test failure) and then fell back to the 1.3.0 installer image. Both installers had the same behavior when it came to accessing ci.guix.gnu.org for

bug#51787: Disk performance on ci.guix.gnu.org

2021-12-20 Thread Bengt Richter
On +2021-12-20 17:59:33 +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hey, > > > This is still pretty bad, but better than the <1M performance suggested > > by previous runs. > > Mmh interesting, I also have a x10 speed up on sdb by increasing the > block size from 4k to 512k. I'm not sure what conclusion

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Can we instead use for these purposes? It is already > there, just unused. Mmh, indeed. Well it is already used to create vlan and veth interfaces. What we could do then, is expose the record as a direct equivalent of the Guile-Netlink record. The links list of the record would

bug#52051: [core-updates-frozen] cannot login ('org.freedesktop.login1' service times out)

2021-12-20 Thread Caleb Herbert
I am using an X200 Tablet with an HDD. This happened on my system. I am now on Fedora with Guix until this issue is fixed. OpenPGP_0x42E4FDF80F03CA7C.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#52671: glibc patch causes crash on failure to find path to executable

2021-12-20 Thread Ivan Kozlov
glibc-dl-cache.patch causes segmentation fault when _dl_get_origin fails (which should be harmless unless there is $ORIGIN in RUNPATH). I found this when running a dynamically linked executable as ‘init’, before /proc was mounted. There needs to be an origin != (char *)-1 check.

bug#36389: Nginx and certbot

2021-12-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I am also experiencing problems with setting up nginx and certbot, but I think it is more nginx that is to blame. After reconfiguring and restarting nginx, it is still running with the old configuration. Only rebooting solves the problem for me. Here is what it looks like (everything as

bug#36389: Nginx and certbot

2021-12-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Actually this seems to be a thing of the service, not nginx itself. When I stop the service with the old configuration file, manually run /gnu/store/bdhfqs7sx3mal6pzz8z00hw4cpn5dj7x-nginx-1.21.4/sbin/nginx -p /var/run/nginx -c new_configuration_file kill the process, and "herd restart nginx",

bug#51787: Disk performance on ci.guix.gnu.org

2021-12-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Mathieu Othacehe writes: >> This is still pretty bad, but better than the <1M performance suggested >> by previous runs. > > Mmh interesting, I also have a x10 speed up on sdb by increasing the > block size from 4k to 512k. I'm not sure what conclusion should we draw > from this observation.

bug#51787: Disk performance on ci.guix.gnu.org

2021-12-20 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > This is still pretty bad, but better than the <1M performance suggested > by previous runs. Mmh interesting, I also have a x10 speed up on sdb by increasing the block size from 4k to 512k. I'm not sure what conclusion should we draw from this observation. In particular for our most

bug#52551: Supercollider and ableton-link build failure

2021-12-20 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Aleksandr Vityazev writes: > On 2021-12-16, 16:37 +, Maxime Devos wrote: > >> Running make with parallelism can mix up the error messages. >> Probably the actual error message is before a lot of >> [$$%] Built target [...] lines. >> I recommend building with "--cores=1" for

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hey, > >> Is it #:multicast-on or #:allmulticast-on ? > > The "ip link set multicast ..." command corresponds to the the > IFF_MULTICAST flag hence to the #:multicast-on parameter. > >> Anyhow, I suggest adding a ‘multicast?’ field to , with >> #t as its

bug#52678: sway unable to start Xwayland

2021-12-20 Thread Jack Hill
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, With Guix 11334d15d590073c631c574436d2110aa1ea2142, sway is not able to start Xwayland. I believe that is was working correctly for me at commit d627fbad8f4e157103251b07d7543dd2f5647cea. Running sway manually from a VT, I was able to capture