guix package: error: build failed: opening lock file?

I am running a 'guix system vm' and 'guix package -i' fails ... g1@server17 ~$ guix package -i icecat guix package: error: build failed: opening lock file `/gnu/store/4iznqdzql2cp4l2jkr09jn10xxw861c4-mirrors.lock': Read-only file system Any idea what I am doing wrong? Here are the details ...

Re: Test fail

Hello, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2018. márc. 30., P 18:39): > >> Hi Maria, >> >> Thanks for your report. In practice you can safely ignore this test >> failure. We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu:

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Oleg Pykhalov writes: > Хорошо, мы можем выполнять trim по cron (mcron). Этот сервис есть в %desktop-services? >>> >>> Нет. >>> >>> Список сервисов ‘%desktop-services’ можно посмотреть в >>>

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Alternately, you can inspect the ‘%desktop-services’ variable at the REPL: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ guile > GNU Guile 2.2.3 > Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Guile comes with

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

March 27, 2018 6:51 AM, l...@gnu.org wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> Considering the importance of Emacs in this community, I think it would >> make sense to provide a cutting-edge version. > > Do you mean a snapshot of the ‘master’ branch? > > We don’t do that

Instantiating the OS declaration after a small change

Hello everyone, Context : In the process of trying to build packages, through the use of guix environments, I need more space on my home partition. To do so, deleting former generations followed by 'guix gc' was not enough, and I need to move things to my external ntfs drive (please don't ask why