Re: Instantiating the OS declaration after a small change

2018-04-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Arnaud B skribis: > 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 (

Re: Instantiating the OS declaration after a small change

2018-04-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Arnaud B writes: > Do I have to apply 'guix system reconfigure', a lenghty process (on my > computer at least) for such a small change, especially if I did not write > it correctly, or is there another possibility ? In principle “guix system reconfigure” should not be a lengthy process if that

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

2018-04-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Chris Marusich skribis: > myg...@gmail.com writes: > >> 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-o

Re: Instantiating the OS declaration after a small change

2018-04-06 Thread Arnaud B
Hello Ludo Thanks for helping me. Actually I had come up with that declaration : (file-systems (cons* (file-system (device "my-root") (title 'label) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4")) (fil

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

2018-04-06 Thread myglc2
Hello Chris and Ludo’, Thanks for the quick response. On 04/06/2018 at 10:35 Ludovic Courtès writes: > > Chris Marusich skribis: > >> myg...@gmail.com writes: >> >>> I am running a 'guix system vm' and 'guix package -i' fails ... >>> >>> g1@server17 ~$ guix package -i icecat >>> guix package: er

Re: Disable discrete graphics card (Nvidia)

2018-04-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
On my previous system (Void Linux), bbswitch did not seem to work either, but I remember that I fixed the issue by _uninstalling_ xf86-video-nouveau. Is it possible to do such a thing on Guix? xf86-video-nouveau is in the store, but it does not show up in the list of installed packages for the s

Re: Disable discrete graphics card (Nvidia)

2018-04-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
By the way, I wonder how uninstalling the xf86-video-nouveau driver could be different from blacklisting it... Anyone? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature