Re: Random domain name resolution errors

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:59:26PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Sorry, forgot to follow up with this thread. Jelle's trick did work for > me. > > The issue happens most of the times when I travel. > Should we consider this a bug? Can we do something to fix it? I consider it a bug, please fe

Re: Installing guix on nixos system

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 12:15:53PM +, Roy Lemmon wrote: > I am trying to install guix on my nixos system. I am using the shell script > provided on the guix installation page: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh > > All works well until the script tries to

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:36:27PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > I have installed glibc-locales, however it seems like the reason for the > above is that there is no link from .guix-profile/lib/locale to the > glibc-locales package. If I put a link there manually, the warning above > disappears,

Re: Scheduling and getting notifications in a desktop or window manager environment

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:32:42AM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > [1] I'm a little bit worried on its future > https://github.com/pimutils/vdirsyncer/issues/790 Sad but not suprising considering it's Debian. I went out of my way to communicate with the vdirsyncer project and keep the burden fr

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:39:18PM +0100, Jeremy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > Also, there is also a package for utf-8 locales : glibc-utf8-locales. The glibc-locales package contains *all* the locales, including the UTF-8 locales. The glibc-utf8-locales package only contains a handful and is for tes

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:32:18PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > > If you installed glibc-locales, it should show up at > > '~/.guix-profile/lib/locale' for the user that installed it (Guix > > package management is per-user). > > > > It did not show up. > > > > > > How did you install glibc-

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:06:32PM +0100, Jeremy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > Alright then my mind can drop the utf8 subset. > > Thank you for the clarification ! I'm glad you pointed it out. We are probably going to deprecate it soon to avoid more confusion. We really need to make locales on Guix

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:19:02PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > I only tried it for root so far and it did not show up in root's > '~/.guix-profile/lib/locale'. Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the results here? Also, as root, can you send the result of `echo

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:37:27PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:22 PM Leo Famulari wrote: > > Okay. As root, can you do `guix package --list-installed` and send the > > results here? > > guile-ssh 0.12.0 out > /gnu/store/qqpigisk01ivzvb9py

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:58:31PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > root@hat:~# ls -l ~root/.guix-profile > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 mar 14 19:48 /root/.guix-profile -> > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix > root@hat:~# ls -lL ~root/.guix-profile > total 20 > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096

Re: Help with locale

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:06:51PM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote: > Of course it *is* a bug that the simple action of installing glibc-locales > after a pure install doesn't result in locales taking effect (or that > lib/locales doesn't exist). I just wanted to have people with more context > than

Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 07:31:23PM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote: > The online manual does mention that bind-mount exists, but doesn't actually > seem to have any examples of defining a bind mount. You would add (flags '(bind-mount)) to the Scheme definition of file-system. > The manual also does

Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition?

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:14:57PM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote: > I played around a bit with trying to get a bind mount defined, but the only > thing I was able to come up with that didn't error when reconfiguring was: > >(file-system > > (device "/spinning-disk-dri

Re: Why did those credit managers start to burn my phone after I visited bank?

It's not related to Guix, but places like retail shops, banks, etc host phone location tracking equipment that is used to target advertising. On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:33:10AM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Hello, dear Guix hackers! I want to understand how they could get my phone > number.

Re: Why did those credit managers start to burn my phone after I visited bank?

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:32:38PM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Sorry for mention of trade marks. > I am interested in > devices with such characteristics cpu speed, memory, battery, weight and UIX, > applications that will be useful for me and other not programmers, > some good practices.

Re: Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro)

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:49:54PM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > My question regards setting environment variables, which are considered > by applications installed via GUIX on a foreign distro (Trisquel). What > is the best practice to set custom environment variables? You should set them in

Re: info on move to GNU+Hurd and deprecating Linux-libre

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:01:36PM -0400, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote: > ahoy all, > > hope that everyone is as well as can be. > > i saw the new post on deprecating Linux in Guix in favor of > GNU+Hurd and was just wondering if there is some background on the > decision? i had searched

Re: info on move to GNU+Hurd and deprecating Linux-libre

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:47:54PM -0400, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote: > PS: though i still think that the GNU+Hurd looks interesting :) It's more interesting, useful, and accessible than ever! People are trying it and sending patches daily since that blog post.

Re: Setting environment variables (GUIX on foreign distro)

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 01:14:40AM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > I already set them in my ~/.profile, but that does not seem to work, as > they are not seen when starting LyX (or perhaps any GUIX installed > app?). Would setting them in ~/.bash_profile work? I thought that > ~/.profile is loade

Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition?

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 03:01:09PM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote: > I can give it a shot. I've whipped up and attached a quick patch that adds a > section about bind-mounting. > I wasn't able to find any info on how to preview the resulting html file > though, or on what the preferred writing style

Re: How to temporarily disable Pulseaudio?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 06:18:57PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > In my case the daemon gets restarted directly, no need to start an audio > program. You'll have to look closely at your running programs. It's likely that one of them is starting it. Probably your desktop manager if you can't thi

Re: How to temporarily disable Pulseaudio?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 04:30:52PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I've got a couple of sound issues which I suspect might be linked to > Pulseaudio. You can run a program with `pasuspender -- FOO` to temporarily suspend the PulseAudio server. That might help...

Re: How to declare a bind mount in the "file-systems" definition?

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:03:25PM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote: > Thanks for the help! I've renamed the section and hard wrapped the lines, and > updated it to a more recent commit. > > Let me know if there's anything else I should do. Great! I pushed as 60651dd9624e4ca648ef0f0d426628377533a637

Re: Help on writing package definitions

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 08:32:35AM +0200, Emmanuel Medernach wrote: > - Why not export the license record type from license.scm ? Some project > has its own license and I cannot create it. In general, we don't add project-specific licenses to licenses.scm or as their own variables. Instead, we us

Re: core-updates call for testing

I reconfigured my Guix System based on core-updates, and afterwards I was unable to login, either remotely over SSH, or on the Linux console. After cutting the power to the computer and turning it back on, I was able to log in. I've attached my configuration file for your reference. ;; This is an

Re: guix system boot time

Welcome and thanks for trying Guix! On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:09:10PM +0200, christophe.pist...@posteo.net wrote: > The only small problem is the system startup, which takes a long time (3 > minutes from grub to GDM user login). It is probably due to a problem with > the system clock (I get somes

Re: Guix on the MNT Reform

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 11:52:51AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On the plus side, the A53 cores are immune to most spectre/meltdown > attacks! Yes, a mixed blessing, to be sure! Cortex-A53 is an in-order CPU design.

Re: Is Guix System moving to GNU/Hurd microkernel, which does not support x86_64 as of now

On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 09:11:16AM +0530, Sanjay Mysore wrote: > I had burnt the DVD and was about to install Guix, but accidentally I saw a > post regarding the subject, at Phoronix... Is this true? > If so, then I am sad32bit systems do not support large RAM On April 1 2020 we made the blog

Re: [SHEPHERD]: Could not start manually as user

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 09:31:18AM -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > ERROR: In procedure stat: > In procedure stat: No such file or directory: "/run/user/1000/shepherd" > *** END *** It needs XDG_RUNTIME_DIR to be set, as mentioned in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/shephe

Re: Guix closure size of a system?

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > /gnu/store/w8gjhcw6a16rk1dvxa97bz2znal5fihm-go-1.13.9 639.1 > 350.7 6.8% > - go: I think I've got go because of docker, but go should be a > build-time dependency, I don't think it belong here. Just FYI the Go

Re: guile: warning: failed to install locale

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 02:33:58PM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > What to do? The issue is that the guix-daemon didn't get the new locales yet. You need to also do `guix pull` as root and then restart guix-daemon, assuming you use root's copy of guix-daemon. Otherwise, adjust the advice as ne

Re: GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:17:32PM +, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > I made a guix pull the other day and since then I'm getting the classic: > > > guile: warning: failed to install locale > hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales' package > and defining `GUIX_LOCPA

Re: Guix closure size of a system?

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 05:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I haven't looked at the details, but > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > > guix size docker > store item totalself > /gnu/store/w8gjhcw6

Re: Guix closure size of a system?

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 06:46:14PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Should I file a bug? I've done it:

Re: GUIX_LOCPATH message over and over again

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 04:06:02PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > This should probably be clarified better in the docs, because I > installed Guix on top of Ubuntu recently and even though I've set it up > correctly once on Arch, it was rather confusing to me why I was getting > that message. > I think

Re: Guix Docker image inflation

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 03:41:49PM -0400, Stephen Scheck wrote: > As an exercise, I set up daily Guix System Docker image builds using GitLab > and Docker Hub, here: > https://hub.docker.com/repository/registry-1.docker.io/singularsyntax/guix/tags?page=1 Cool! > The build process works as follows

Re: ffmpeg and alsa/pulseaudio

On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 11:54:35AM +, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make a screencast with ffmpeg and I'm having issues. > > I had a screen recording script on the past, based on alsa, but it's not > working in guix because it looks like ffmpeg wasn't compiled with alsa. Is

Re: Guix Docker image inflation

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:19:46PM -0400, Stephen Scheck wrote: > The previous day's Docker image is used as the base for the new one being > built - the image is pulled from Docker Hub, `guix pull` is run inside it, > and a new > image is "committed" (Docker terminology for creating a new image fr

Re: Guix Docker image inflation

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 01:56:28PM -0400, Stephen Scheck wrote: > > > "guix-system$|guix-packages-base$|guix-[0-9a-f]*-modules$" > > [...] > > > 191M > > /gnu/store/l3amdz5xyhflg5wdzlxr2685dq5glic2-guix-527ab3125-modules > > > 201M > > /gnu/store/5mhn1ynxvy7jihsknsnv3yspkkvc0r5s-guix-2e59ae

Re: Guix Docker image inflation

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:21:08PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > --branch and --commit would be passed to `guix pull`, and then you'd run > > `guix system docker-image` based on that. > > There is also 'guix time-machine --commit=abc123

Re: Locale and TOR Configuration Issues

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:28:10PM +0200, julia.galaman--- via wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have two issues. One is silly and the other is a bit less silly (I think). > Please be patient with me, as I'm new and pretty terrified. Welcome! > 1) It's about the locale settings. So I am supposed t

Re: Guix System ext4 index full

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 11:14:23PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Unfortunately, once that hash table fills up, the premier stable Linux file > system just… gives up and refuses to write any more data. In a very cryptic > way. It's so cryptic... I wonder how often people hit this limit in

Re: error message : user with UID 120300 not found / guix install: error: while creating directory `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/evanol': Permission denied

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 04:26:10PM +, Lory EVANO wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new with Guix and I am currently trying to install it as a root on a VM. > I followed the steps described in the Guix manual > (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html). After > the installa

Re: SPAM threads/trigger warning: "[IceCat]: IMPORTANT!" or anything by "Rasa Gulla"

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 07:33:27PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > it seems to all be porn. some child is trying to be a troll. > it might be triggering for some people, hence this warning message. Yes, the maintainers are aware of the situation and are taking steps to prevent it from happening again.

Re: Touchpad not working on Acer Aspire One laptop

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 03:05:05PM +0100, Barnabás Béres wrote: > Hi all, > > I successfully installed Guix on a Acer Aspire One laptop but the touchpad > not working. Do you have any idea how I can make it work. This model has a > SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad. Can you share your config.scm? Tha

Re: Package workspace relocation

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 03:15:46PM -0500, Stephen Scheck wrote: > Is there a way to relocate the package build workspace for a Git clone > source, e.g.: > > (package > (name "my-package") > (version "0.0.1") > (source (origin > (method git-fetch) >

Re: GNU Guix 1.2.0 released

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 04:07:25PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.2.0, which also > marks the eighth anniversary of Guix today. Hooray! > This release corresponds to 10,248 commits over 6.5 months by 201 people. > It includes many new features

Re: Build determinism, dependency granularity, and dependency scope

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:20:35PM -0500, Stephen Scheck wrote: > But if you look at the commits for the packages defined in the Guix tree, > they do not correspond. And the `go-golang-org-x-text` package in the Guix > tree (version "0.3.2") does not even meet the minimum version specified in > `go

Re: Build determinism, dependency granularity, and dependency scope

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Stephen Scheck wrote: > Java-based Guix packages also suffer from this problem (actually, I'm far > more familiar with dependency management in the JVM landscape than for Go, > but the use of granularly versioned and scoped, distributed dependency > models

Re: Trouble packaging a ruby dependency

On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 10:41:08PM +0100, Holger Peters wrote: > I have problems building `ruby-rugged'. The patch below is as far as I get, > however it fails with an error message I cannot quite debug. Maybe part of > the > problem is that `ruby-rugged' bundls libgit and I try to have it use the

Re: packaging a golang package

On Fri, Jan 8, 2021, at 02:01, Timmy Douglas wrote: > > I recently installed guix for the first time and I wanted to try to > package my first program. The one I decided to try is written in go and > uses go.mod (https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/master/go.mod) for > modules. Running `go bui

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 02:22:23PM +0100, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: > These attempts were either ignored by guix or resulted in > > guix time-machine: error: got unexpected path `Backtrace:' from substituter I don't think this error is related to time-machine and unstable source code. It appears to b

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 08:37:30PM +0100, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: > Yeah, there may be a connection. Is --no-substitutes a way to avoid this > error? Yes, the problem is in the substituter so --no-substitutes will avoid it. You might spend a loong time building things but it depends on the speci

Re: Does Guix provide security support for Python2? For how long?

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 02:18:09PM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > Em [2021-01-15 sex 18:07:40+0100], zimoun escreveu: > > > As far as I know, Guix provides the security support that upstream > > releases. > > I too suppose so in general. But I would like a more authoritative > answer fo

Re: Cann't launch Transmission

The graphical part of Transmission is provided in a separate "output" of the package. I can't check now but I believe it's called the "gui" output. You can check the list of outputs with `guix show transmission`. You can install non-default outputs with e.g. `guix package -i transmission:gui`.

Re: Packaging (simple) tools in Golang

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote: > Hello Guix! > > How would one package a tool written in Go(lang) using guix? I am > looking at https://github.com/guitmz/n26, but all of my efforts using > the go-build-system end up having only some documentation and (if I set > `#:in

Re: Packaging (simple) tools in Golang

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Jelle Licht wrote: > Hello Guix! > > How would one package a tool written in Go(lang) using guix? I am > looking at https://github.com/guitmz/n26, but all of my efforts using > the go-build-system end up having only some documentation and (if I set > `#:in

Re: Need guidance on how to proceed

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 01:21:54PM -0700, K I wrote: > Greetings! > > I am attempting to unpack and use a program in .tar.gz format for programming > lisp. > When I unpack and try to use .tar.gz, it says the file doesn't exist. > > What should be my path forward to try and get this to run on Gui

Re: Another Raspberry Pi data point

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:06:06PM +, Richard Huxton wrote: > I saw Jonathan Marsden's post the other day, but wasn't subscribed then, so > this will have to be another data point. Thanks for the report! > Guix seems to work well for applications on top of both debian and alpine > containers

Re: Another Raspberry Pi data point

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:34:17PM -0600, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > Just knowing that is useful info! I wasn't sure if it was "supposed" to work. > I have not found a list of which aarch64 SBC boards Guix System is supposed > to work on. I'd love to see such a list, if one exists. Even better If

Re: error: "cannot download for method git-fetch"

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 05:54:34PM +0100, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:27:58PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > > > Updating some other package, which is using http-fetch, works. So this > > seams to be related to git. > > Hi, > > Perhaps you’re behind a firewall that blocks

Re: building package: gcc 7.5.0 referenced instead of latest gcc; not sure why

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 04:10:16PM -0800, Andy Tai wrote: [...] > I am not sure why gcc 7.5 is being used; no where in the package > definition scm file references explicitly gcc 7.5. I did not install > gcc 7.5 explicitly either. This is the "default" GCC package used when building packages, g

How to compose sysctl-service-type?

I'm trying to set some default sysctl settings for Guix System: https://bugs.gnu.org/47013 The problem is that I can't figure out how to compose the sysctl-service-type. Overall, I'm really confused at the variety of ways that services are created and used. If we put (service sysctl-service-type

Re: calculate hashes for a new packages

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:14:43PM +0100, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > How does one calculate the hash for a package one wants to add to GNU Guix? > > I know 2 ways, giving me different results. One is for the repository folder > and > one is for the tarball: > > > guix hash --exclude-vcs --r

Re: Setting up guix source tree for testing a package

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:31:36AM +0100, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > ./bootstrap > ./configure --localstatedir=some_directory > > > But here I am facing a problem. I have no clue what to set the > `--localstatedir=directory` to. The docs tell me it is important, but I see no > instruct

Re: How to compose sysctl-service-type?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:05:37PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > I'm trying to set some default sysctl settings for Guix System: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/47013 > > The problem is that I can't figure out how to compose the > sysctl-service-type. Overall, I'm reall

Re: /dev/kvm missing

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 04:45:35PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > Hello, > > trying to run the Android emulator on Guix, I notice that /dev/kvm is > missing on my system; "lsmod | grep kvm" shows these: > kvm 819200 0 > irqbypass 16384 1 kvm > > Do I need to add any

Re: two questions on guix upgrade

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:47:33PM -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > 1. Is there a way to tolerate errors in single package upgrade and keep the > others going? right now I have opencv installed and opencv build now is > broken, so if I do the above command as is the whole 'package -u' command > would fai

Re: cannot "guix pull"

To the people that are having this problem, can you share the results of `guix describe`, for both your root user and the user you typically use Guix with? For example: $ guix describe $ sudo --login guix describe On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 09:37:22PM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > I am getting the

Re: cannot "guix pull"

system reconfigure ...` will fix your problem, but I wanted to be sure. Here are some general observations and advice: On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 09:27:12AM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > Thus quoth Leo Famulari on Sat Mar 20 2021 at 23:10 (+0100): > > $ guix describe > > Gen

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 07:21:06PM -0400, nylxs wrote: > Becuse he wants to. > This is always a loaded question making an excuse to avoid answering > it. It should just work from the command line, no excuses, because the > user wants it that way. It has never been simple on Guix System to use x

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 07:34:25PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello Gary, > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 5:49 PM Gary Johnson wrote: > > [...] Nicely described stuff > > I think this would make a nice additional recipe for the cookbook. > > WOGT ? (What Other Guixers Think) Absolutely! People

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:11:57PM -0400, nylxs wrote: > or it could be not broken, Thanks for the hint!

Re: failed to compute the derivation for Guix

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 07:29:41PM -0700, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: > -Backtrace: > 14 (primitive-load > "/gnu/store/lx1fy4svkv1avz60k7ddjsy59sjycwqk-compute-guix-derivation") > In ice-9/eval.scm: > 155:9 13 (_ _) > 159:9 12 (_ #(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(#(# 7f81040f3f?> ?) ?) ?) ?

Re: failed to compute the derivation for Guix

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:37:03AM -0700, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > This looks like bugs #47157 / #47266: > > > > https://bugs.gnu.org/47157 > > https://bugs.gnu.org/47266 > > > > If so, it's a transient networking error

Re: 'guix deploy' installs old version of Guix on Digital Ocean

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 06:25:41AM +0800, Tim Lee wrote: > > Heh, there's a lot of infection happening this evening (see the other > > thread from ilmu) > > I tried to reply to that thread, but it appears that my mail did not > reach the mailing list. I am not subscribed to the mailing list, It >

Re: 'guix deploy' installs old version of Guix on Digital Ocean

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 06:55:18AM +0800, Tim Lee wrote: > Is that the correct description? Where is this documented? The moderation of new people on the mailing lists is undocumented and ad-hoc.

Re: 'guix deploy' installs old version of Guix on Digital Ocean

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 07:13:13AM +0800, Tim Lee wrote: > Does this mean that it is possible to participate (i.e. start new > threads and reply to posts) without subscribing to the list? > If so, that would be great because I don't want to receive an email for > every post or receive daily digests

Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: > X server worked fine with this NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 GPU when Debian > was installed on this computer. It also looks like Debian uses a > deblobbed kernal based on this Wikipedia article. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob T

Re: Two more computers unable to start X with GDM

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:32:49AM -0400, Gary Johnson wrote: > I've always had good luck using linux-libre with Intel integrated > graphics controllers. Agreed, Intel is the way to go for free graphics drivers.

Re: guix pull errors

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:02:13PM +, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting tons of guix pull errors these days. > They look like they are related with network issues because they > disappear if I insist (many times) and they appear in different > packages. > > They look like this: > >

Re: guix pull errors

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 05:23:44PM +, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Before the `reconfigure` I had a 10 days old system. > Now it seems to work fine. > > I had a hard time make it upgrade tbh, it was like stuck all the time with > the same error. > > So it was just a network issue and it is fixed

Updating the rav1e package to 0.4.0

Our rav1e package ((gnu packages video) rav1e) is at version 0.3.5. I noticed that FFmpeg 4.4 requires rav1e 0.4.0, at minimum, so I tried updating it. Luckily, there is a similar / duplicate package ((gnu packages crates-graphics) rust-rav1e-0.4.0), so the required versions of Rust dependencies

Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 12:28:20AM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: > I have just installed Guix on a computer using: > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.2.0.i686-linux.iso.xz > > When I run `guix pull` I get this error message "guix pull: error: Git > error: the SSL certificate is inval

Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:33:12AM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > But I remember having seen an (default checked) option > to install certificates when choosing packages to install. > > Let me power it up and check... > > I have the "nss-certs" package installed from /etc/config.scm `guix pull`

Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 09:54:18PM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: > I can reproduce this after two separate install using this install > image: > https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.2.0.i686-linux.iso.xz Okay. I have installed this ISO in a virtual machine, following the instructions in

Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 03:04:14PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > It's expected that, before the first `guix pull`, the origin is not > known. The per-user view of Guix, with provenance tracking, is created > on the first `guix pull`. > > However, the version string should be 1

Re: (No Subject)

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:07:31AM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: > I personally do not use libreboot (I use the nonfree fork), because > under intense load, my T400 crashes. Using the nonfree fork of > libreboot, my T400 does not crash under heavy load. And I use the sway > window manager, with Fi

Re: Wireguard

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 08:38:45PM +0200, amuza wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new here. Some weeks ago I installed the Guix package manager on top > of Trisquel and so far I'm very happy. > > Let me say that I'm not a developer or anything similar, so I easily get > lost. > > And now my question: > I

Re: guix pull error after install i686 1.2.0

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 08:26:32PM -0400, Bone Baboon wrote: > Thank you for sharing that link. It inspired several tests that I > conducted which helped me solve the problem. The issue was that the > date was significantly incorrect. > > I was able to fix this with `sudo date --set='-MM-DD

Re: Question about sending in patches

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > A while ago I sent in a patch to add a package, but I realize, that I might > have > made a mistake, by attaching the git patch file, instead of copy pasting its > content as a message. > > Should I send a new patch with the pat

Re: mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:31:35PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote: > But after rebooting, and trying to mount a webdav share as user, I only > get: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /run/current-system/profile/sbin/mount.davfs: program is not setuid root > --8<

Re: mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 03:36:12PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote: > Even when calling the binary from /run/setuid-programs will fail > as well. Okay, but how? You haven't told us that yet.

Re: Pinebook pro build

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Grant Wilson II wrote: > In unknown file: >1 (string-append #f "/bl31.elf") > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 1669:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception: > In procedure string-append: Wro

Re: Pinebook pro build

ers) u-boot-pinebook-pro-rk3399)"` > > However that does defeat the purpose. > > Why would the "firmware" native input not be available when targeting > aarch64-linux-gnu? > > Or perhaps that is not the correct question to ask... > > > On Sun, Ap

Re: mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:50:53PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote: > Sorry, hope there is no confusion now. I think I did in a previous > message: > > $ mount -t davfs URL moint_point Sorry, I was unclear. I'm asking you to run the binary using the absolute path from /run/setuid-programs, and then in

Re: Pinebook pro build

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:55:05PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > So... I'm not very familiar with how --target=ARCH cross-building works > in guix, but that somehow appears to trigger the issue... Thanks for your analysis. I wonder if anyone else can help us further... More pings! signature.

Re: mount.davfs: program is not setuid root

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:30:13PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote: > I just tried again, and called mount as: > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /run/setuid-programs/mount -t ~/test/ > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > where URL is my

Re: Pinebook pro build

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:10:01PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I should also mention that arm-trusted-firmware and u-boot packages have > support for cross-building when not using --target=ARCH. e.g. Building > these packages on x86_64 builds working binaries for the aarch64 boot > firmware.

Re: What to do when a package is removed upstream

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:35:10AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > You can use an ‘inferior’[0] Guix if you don't mind the entire closure of > python2-flask* being frozen in the past -- possibly including > incompatibilities or known security vulnerabilities. > > I don't know what their incl

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