Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-10-31 Thread Brian Woodcox
that shortly. > On Oct 31, 2018, at 12:35 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> So I have been trying to install GuixSD 0.15.0 for a few days now. >> >> My first problem was not setting >> —substitutes-urls=“https://berlin.guixsd.org. So that f

*** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-10-31 Thread Brian Woodcox
So I have been trying to install GuixSD 0.15.0 for a few days now. My first problem was not setting —substitutes-urls=“https://berlin.guixsd.org . So that fixed one problem. My other problem is try as I might, I cannot get either guile-2.2.3 or guile-2.2.4 to

Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-10-31 Thread Brian Woodcox
ork? > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 09:42:25AM -0600, Brian Woodcox wrote: >> So I have been trying to install GuixSD 0.15.0 for a few days now. >> >> My first problem was not setting >> —substitutes-urls=“https://berlin.guixsd.org <https://berlin.guixsd.org/>

Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-10-31 Thread Brian Woodcox
-suite > On Oct 31, 2018, at 12:35 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> So I have been trying to install GuixSD 0.15.0 for a few days now. >> >> My first problem was not setting >> —substitutes-urls=“https://berlin.guixsd.org. So that f

Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-10-31 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Mark, Thanks for the debugging tips. I will try your suggestions next and see where it takes me. > On Oct 31, 2018, at 7:35 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> This is what is displaced on the screen when the hang occurs: >&

Where is the best place to download texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz ?

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
While installing guilds 0.15.0 I am getting an download failures for this package. I am using the system init —substitute-urls=“http://berlin.guixsd.org” /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt command, but I get an error saying that it tried to download the tarball from:

Installing GuixSD 0.15.0 - Trouble with svn://www.tug.org/texlive

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
Anyone know a solutions to this problem? root@gnu /gnu/store# guix system init --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org; /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt Initialized empty Git repository in /gnu/store/mqfag8j6zyrlwkq3zm98nzgdnh6j7hgz-guile-git-0.0-6.36f93c1-checkout/.git/ error: Server does not

Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
Thanks Mark. Will do. Being knew to Guix I wasn’t aware of the guix download command. > On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> I posted before I saw Leo’s reply at any rate his method is probably better. >> >> I

Re: guixsd 0.15.0 install failure

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
I posted before I saw Leo’s reply at any rate his method is probably better. In my case, from the /gnu/store directory, I entered: nano ./59pqd1d0ihqxx0i64yxk335vjmw78wmh-bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz.drv and at the end of the line, I changed url from http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz to

Re: Where is the best place to download texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz ?

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
Sorry, that should have read “While installing GuixSD 0.15.0”. The auto correct messed it up. > On Nov 2, 2018, at 11:19 PM, Brian Woodcox wrote: > > While installing guilds 0.15.0 I am getting an download failures for this > package. > > I am using the system init —sub

Re: Installing GuixSD 0.15.0 - Trouble with svn://www.tug.org/texlive

2018-11-02 Thread Brian Woodcox
Okay, I solved my own problem. Make sure your firewall allows outgoing port 3690 in order for svn to work. > On Nov 2, 2018, at 5:36 PM, Brian Woodcox wrote: > > Anyone know a solutions to this problem? > > root@gnu /gnu/store# guix system init > --substitute-urls="ht

Re: Where is the best place to download texlive-20170524-extra.tar.xz ?

2018-11-03 Thread Brian Woodcox
Thanks Mark. That makes sense. So I will just use the --no-check-certificate flag since the hash is used for verification in the end anyway. This is really a nice feature being able to download packages from untrusted sites. > On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:19 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Hi Brian,

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-03 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi, I have run it a few times with the same output. I’m using —keep-failed, which I assume is the same as the -K flag. I have the build directory. Anything you would like me to do with it. Thanks. > On Nov 3, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > Hello, > > This is a test failure,

Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-03 Thread Brian Woodcox
I’m getting a build failure when building nss-3.36.1. I have the entire log. Here is the end part of it. Any ideas? Thanks. SUMMARY: NSS variables: -- HOST=localhost DOMSUF=(none) BUILD_OPT= USE_X32= USE_64=1 NSS_CYCLES="" NSS_TESTS="" NSS_SSL_TESTS="crl iopr policy"

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-03 Thread Brian Woodcox
So I have tried to debug this a bit, but I am not making much headway. Apparently the error is: chains.sh: #718: RealCerts: Verifying certificate(s) PayPalEE.cert with flags -d AllDB -pp -o OID.2.16.840.1.114412.1.1 - FAILED chains.sh: Verifying certificate(s) BrAirWaysBadSig.cert with

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-03 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Björn, You nailed it. Of course, I am not too certain how to use the guix git-checkout command. Do you or anyone else have an example of how you would build this after downloading it? I’ve done a bit of search, but have not come up with much. Thanks

Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. So rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv is trying to download git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/guix-artwork.git But I get the following error: Cloning into 'guix-artwork'... fatal: unable to connect to

Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here. Thanks to all. I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra. Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”. Don’t do this unless you are very

Package Install Question for New User

2018-11-05 Thread Brian Woodcox
So I now have GuixSD installed and operational. Well sort of, I would like to install some packages. I am seeing a lot of information on the web (including videos) and old information about installing packages and the .guix-profile. Let’s say I’m logged in as user noobie. I then trying to

Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-11-06 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Mark, I do have it working now in VirtualBox. I may try it again down the road, just to see how smooth the experience should be. :) The only real problem I have with this setup is the fact that the windowing system (XFCE) in VirtualBox is loosing mouse functionality. The mouse pointer is

Enjoying GuixSD

2018-11-09 Thread Brian Woodcox
I have been playing around with guix on the guixSD system. I think Ludovic showed an example of doing this with petsc, so I thought I would give it a go with Haskell. It worked out great! So, I decided to pull down the Haskell ghc source code from master on github and compile it in an

Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

2018-11-06 Thread Brian Woodcox
hen the virtual machine boots up again and no more mouse issues when selecting graphical windows and icons on the Xfce 4.12 Desktop P.S. QEMU does not run fast enough on a mac, but VirtualBox is super fast. Cheers! > On Nov 6, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Brian Woodcox wrote: > > >

Re: Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
Your right. I think port 9418 needs to be open. So scratch that one from the list. > >> On 2018-11-04 16:41, Brian Woodcox wrote: >> This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. >> >> So rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv is

Re: Unable to Install Rust 1.20.0 and Beyond

2018-12-27 Thread Brian Woodcox
for results, I decided on a hunch to increase the number of processors on my virtual machine from 1 to 2. Tests now succeed!! rustc is now installed. Brian. > On Dec 20, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> I’m

Re: Unable to Install Rust 1.20.0 and Beyond

2018-12-20 Thread Brian Woodcox
> On Dec 20, 2018, at 3:10 AM, Chris Marusich wrote: > > Brian Woodcox writes: > >> I have tried to install multiple times. >> >> Any ideas? > > How long did you wait before deciding that the process was hung? > Anecdotally, I think it took m

Unable to Install Rust 1.20.0 and Beyond

2018-12-19 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi all, I’m not able to install rust. Initially, I was having problems with 1.19.0 because of memory issues. I fixed that by increasing the memory and now 1.19.0 is installed. Now that I have lots of memory 16GB, and lots of hard disk space, I cannot get 1.20.0 to install. I am installing

Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

2019-05-16 Thread Brian Woodcox
> Perhaps all you need is to include the curl package in your package's > native-inputs field. > > Also as a side note, I'm not entirely sure if using open-input-pipe would be > considered good practice for packages as far as reproducibility is concerned. > Perhaps someone else can comment on

Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

2019-05-16 Thread Brian Woodcox
> > Hi, > > I’m having problems with a piece of code. > > ;; Retrieve git commit date > (define get-commit-date (lambda _ > (let* ((out (open-input-pipe (format #f "curl --silent '~a'" %api-url))) > (str (get-string-all out)) > (queryResults (json-string->scm str)) >

Re: Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

2019-05-16 Thread Brian Woodcox
> On May 16, 2019, at 6:21 PM, John Soo wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Others may correct me if I’m wrong here, but during the build phase, network > io is off limits. This is since there is not way to reliably guarantee the > contents of things gotten over the network remain unchanged between

Newbie Packaging Question

2019-05-10 Thread Brian Woodcox
I have a question regarding packaging. Say I have the following in my sample.scm file: (define commit "a1ee2ebf087768b5fbffa07f50a294ad9c8ee600") (define version-date “201903271913”) and then (define-public test-me (package (name “test-me”) (version commit) (source … .

Re: Newbie Packaging Question

2019-05-10 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Tobias, You totally nailed it. Your example solved my problem. I spent a few hours trying to resolve this problem. I did try the comma because I saw that in another package definition. Ultimately, i completely missed the quasiquote. Thanks again Brian.

Having a problem invoking curl only when using guix pull

2019-05-14 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi, I’m having problems with a piece of code. ;; Retrieve git commit date (define get-commit-date (lambda _ (let* ((out (open-input-pipe (format #f "curl --silent '~a'" %api-url))) (str (get-string-all out)) (queryResults (json-string->scm str)) (date (cdr

Chances of installing Guix on the upcoming Pinebook Pro Laptop?

2019-07-19 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hey Guix fans, As the subject line states, what are the chances? This unit is to be released soon from pine64.org. It’s arm based. I know a lot of you would like to upgrade from your Thinkpads. I was thinking of getting one myself. Brian.

*** GUIX SYSTEM DISK-IMAGE HANGS PINEBOOK PRO ***

2019-11-13 Thread Brian Woodcox
I am using a Pinebook Pro (aarch64) to build a disk image. However the build process stops very quickly when it gets to the ...-disk-image.drv... The guix --version is guix (GNU Guix) d673993...1ce0f20 The command that I am issuing is: guix system disk-image -e "(@ (gnu system install)

Re: *** GUIX SYSTEM DISK-IMAGE HANGS PINEBOOK PRO ***

2019-11-13 Thread Brian Woodcox
s there even ARM support in the KVM? I am > illiterate on that kind of thing, but hopefully this gives you a lead. > > Brian Woodcox wrote: > >> I am using a Pinebook Pro (aarch64) to build a disk image. However the >> build process stops very quickly when it gets to the

Re: Load GUIXSD with customized u-boot

2019-10-29 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Farshid, I am very newbie when it comes to arm and u-boot itself. Thanks for the links you gave. It may help me in the future as I’m looking to put guix on a pinebook pro. You may want to look at the following link http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/bootloader/u-boot.scm

Re: Problem running guix pull on aarch64

2020-02-06 Thread Brian Woodcox
I’m having a similar problem doing a guix pull on a Pinebook Pro running arch. I’ve installed the latest binary as of yesterday. Always hangs at that point. I can only get to 54% and it hangs. > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: > > Hey, > > I've been trying to run guix

ci.guix.gnu.org --> not accessible

2020-02-07 Thread Brian Woodcox
It’s been down since yesterday evening for me. Not sure who to contact about this. Brian.

Re: Problem running guix pull on aarch64

2020-02-07 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Chris, I did some more looking into this. Apparently it’s been reported as a bug. See —> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-02/msg00011.html Brian. > On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: >

--> PINEBOOK PRO USERS <-- Patches to add Panfrost Graphics Acceleration XFCE4

2020-04-27 Thread Brian Woodcox
I just thought I should mention that I was able to add the necessary plumbing to add graphics acceleration to the Pinebook Pro. The patch subject that I used was not the best as Pinebook Pro users might miss it. Here is the link —>

Re: Pinebook pro build

2021-04-19 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi All, I was able to create an image to run on the PineBook Pro —> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-04/msg01101.html I haven’t updated this lately, but I have it running on 4 PineBook Pro’s. I hope

Re: Guix as remote dev machine

2022-03-21 Thread Brian Woodcox
I’m not sure if this will help you or not. I screen share from OSX to a VM running Guix system on Unraid. I have the following installed: tigervnc-server 1.12.0-0.b484c22 installed. xrandr 1.5.1 So I run the following command in a terminal window in Guix under my user: x0vncserver -display :1