Re: Initial installation - stuck at installing python (killing process)

2016-03-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludovic, On 19/03/2016, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.r...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> On 19/03/2016, dptdescribe <dptdescr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> We all know that hydra is being overloaded all the time. The

Re: Initial installation - stuck at installing python (killing process)

2016-03-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hallo, On 19/03/2016, dptdescribe wrote: > We all know that hydra is being overloaded all the time. The guix system > init process is failing on random packages due to the network issues. I am > rerunning the command every time. However something strange happens at >

Re: installing libraries

2016-07-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vincent, On 2016-07-22 14:36, Vincent Legoll wrote: I'm trying to do a kernel "make menuconfig", so I have to install some packages, make, gcc, binutils, ncurses, glibc, linux-libre-headers... but ncurses despite being installed, is not picked up... vince@guixsd ~/tmp/build-linux$ export

Re: installing libraries

2016-07-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vincent, On 2016-07-22 21:51, Vincent Legoll wrote: $ guix environment linux-libre --ad-hoc ncurses ... -- make ... (or drop the ‘-- ...’ for an interactive build shell) That will set LIBRARY_PATH (and everything else) up for you. That does not work, same error Which error, exactly?

Re: How to install guix without root permission

2017-01-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, On 06/01/17 14:59, rohit yadav wrote: > ​Thanks for the reply. ​The proot (https://proot-me.github.io/) project > allows you to map $HOME/gnu/store to /gnu/store etc. However, where I am > struggling is the guixbuild users and group creation, and running guix > daemon. I do exactly that

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 16/03/17 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > [2]: Side rant: the myth of semantic versioning needs to die. > [...] > There is simply nothing there to take advantage of. To be taken with a grain of salt, but no more than one. Old man yells at packages, T G-R signature.asc De

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Amirouche, On 16/03/17 19:52, Amirouche wrote: > Héllo, Hi! I'm not the most technically qualified person to answer this, nor the most articulate, but I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why this question keeps popping up. I hope others will join in, since I fear this hints at some

Re: What about dependency resolution à la apt?

2017-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Amirouche, On 16/03/17 21:56, Amirouche wrote: > Le 16/03/2017 à 21:28, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : >> [...] I'm mainly curious and slightly puzzled as to why >> this question keeps popping up. > > Sorry! Not at all. Thanks for making me think about this some mor

Re: Pulling from guix git repo fails

2017-08-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Arun, Arun Isaac wrote on 03/08/17 at 19:05: > I'm not able to pull from the guix repo [over SSH]. Works fine here. Maybe it was a transient or local network issue? $ git config --get remote.upstream.url n...@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/guix.git $ git fetch upstream remote: Counting

Re: build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly

2017-04-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Chris, Leo, On 28/04/17 22:32, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> I am getting this error right now on multiple machines: >> substitute: guix/ui.scm:1255:8: Throw to key `bad-response' with args >> `("Bad Response-Line: ~s"

Re: Grub error: Failed to get canonical path of 'none'

2017-09-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Eduardo, Eduardo Thales wrote on 01/09/17 at 23:22: > I'm trying to install Guix SD with Grub on UEFI and my stuck in this error: > //gnu/store/4c7x0ji4mni5dayf8ig9rssk50pjims1g-grub-efi-2.02/sbin/grub-install: > error: failed to get canonical path of 'none'. [snip] Here's the culprit: >

Re: Grub error: Failed to get canonical path of 'none'

2017-09-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Quiliro, Quiliro Ordonez Baca wrote on 02/09/17 at 21:52: > I have just checked the info page and the old configuration is still there. Hm, not here. Or I'm not searching for the same thing you mean. Could your share the offending section and snippet? Kind regards, T G-R

Re: system vm

2018-05-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Catonano, May 17, 2018 11:23 AM, "Catonano" wrote: > After a while, I'm attempting at creating a vm image, with this line (I had > stored the comand line > in a notes file) > > ~/GNU/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix system vm ~/configs/vm-config-desktop.scm > --image-size=10GB >

Re: system vm

2018-05-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Catonano, May 17, 2018 3:20 PM, "Catonano" wrote: >>> These are the last lines I can see in the terminal >> >> [dmesg snipped] >> >>> and it remains like this for several minutes >>> >>> Discouragaed, I interrupted it My kernel's finally finished and I'm able to reproduce

Re: system vm

2018-05-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
May 17, 2018 4:39 PM, l...@gnu.org wrote: > This is a bug caused by a recent Linux-libre upgrade: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/31268 Oh :-) Thanks! T G-R Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Hexchat freezing up for anyone else?

2018-06-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Chrises, Christopher Baines wrote: I use HexChat, and I can't say I've had any problems with it freezing. Sorry! Ditto, I'm afraid. Kind regards, T G-R

Re: GuixSD system reconfigure error

2018-08-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hebi, Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: To update guix, don't use sudo: guix pull is enough. You'll also have to adjust your sudo invocation accordingly: $ sudo -E guix system reconfigure config.scm This lets sudo keep your regular user's environment (and hence guix version). Kind

Language tag for traditional Chinese (was: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?)

2018-03-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Alex, On 2018-03-05 9:45, l...@gnu.org wrote: The locale should be zh_TW (for Taiwan), zh_HK (for Hong Kong) and zh_mo (for Macau). Should I use a let to avoid duplication? As long as the above sentence is intelligible to people from all these regions, it’s enough to write “zh” I

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-10-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thorsten, Thorsten Wilms wrote: On 26/10/2018 11.28, Thomas Danckaert wrote: ExecStart=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild "--substitute-urls=https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org https://berlin.guixsd.org; Shouldn't that be: ---

Re: bug#33189: Touchpad tap

2018-10-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Luther, Luther Thompson wrote: Section \"InputClass\" Identifier \"touchpad-all\" MatchIsTouchpad \"on\" Option \"DisableWhileTyping\" \"on\" Option \"Tapping\" \"on\" EndSection" [...] Neither DisableWhileTyping nor Tapping has any effect. I also set the

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-10-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Alex, Alex Vong wrote: For myself, I use the following option: --substitute-urls='https://berlin.guixsd.org https://mirror.guixsd.org https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org https://hydra.gnu.org' I suggest keeping only one of mirror.guixsd.org and mirror.hydra.gnu.org. I don't know the

Re: many similar builds

2018-10-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Marco, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: The hash is computed over everything: the package itself but also all its dependencies. Pierre's right, but note that 'the package itself' here means the package 'expression' (minus mere metadata like home-page ond descriptions), not the output produced by

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Everyone, Ludovic Courtès wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0, representing 4,515 commits by 95 people over 5 months. Thank you, all 94 of you wonderful people, and all who commited other things than code. T G-R

Re: guix lint questions

2019-03-20 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
mikadoZero, mikadoZero wrote: I have three questions about the output of: `./pre-inst-env guix lint emacs-ace-link` 1) What is the significance of: ;;; note: source file /home/guix/u/guix/guix/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm ;;; newer than compiled

Re: proposal to remove linux-Libre from Guix

2019-03-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Quiliro Ordonez wrote: El 2019-03-28 21:38, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: All this for merely giving people a reason to stop using the term “Linux distribution”? No. It is for helping people value the project and thus consider freedom more valueable than any other feature. Switching from a

Re: Where is mysql/administration command?

2019-02-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, znavko! znavko wrote: I use su, just for own commodity. The difference for me is that su does not need to type 'sudo' every time. OK, thanks! I thought that perhaps mysql/mariadb was picky about how they were run. Some howtos mention meariadb package, the others type mysql. What

Re: Need help porting eDuke32

2019-02-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: if so: can you build EDuke32 without "BUILD engine"? I doubt it. BUILD *is* the Duke & friends engine; rip it out and you're left with the script for a game you can't play. It's GPL though. You can read the code and imagine what it would look like! If there is a

Re: Winetricks

2019-03-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pierre, swedebugia, Guix, swedebugia wrote: Pierre Neidhardt skrev: (1 mars 2019 16:40:08 CET) Hi Guix, I wonder if Winetricks (https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks) meets the FSDG and can be packaged in Guix. It's LGPL, but might be considered as way of promoting binary blobs. […] If

Re: set dnsdomainname

2019-03-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Giovanni, Marco, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: I'd prefer setting the contents "inline" declaring each hosts record... but I don't know how to do it Probably easier than you thought! (host-name "lapdog.tobias.gr") ;; This creates a file /gnu/store/…-hosts and links it as /etc/hosts.

Re: Disable ugly pc-speaker sound in Slim auth failure

2019-03-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Zvavko, znavko wrote: # guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm /etc/config.scm:97:26: error: comma-separated: unbound variable hint: Did you forget a `use-modules' form? […] Mentioned github page has no any use-modules string that can help. Look again. From system-config/os-main.scm:

Re: Disable ugly pc-speaker sound in Slim auth failure

2019-03-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Your config wasn't broken ^ syntax

Re: Disable ugly pc-speaker sound in Slim auth failure

2019-03-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Znavko, I'm glad you found a working solution in my sleep! I wish I could do that. znavko wrote: I've got names of kernel modules, so that not only pcspkr, but also snd_pcsp needs to disable Yep, I've always disabled them in tandem rather than figure out the exact difference. that

Re: Borg takes forever to upgrade

2019-03-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
HiPhish, HiPhish wrote: Hello everyone, I was trying to upgrade my packages and Borg (the backup program) has been taking over an hour already. […] I have eventually decided to cancel the upgrade process and tried upgrading all packages except Borg. The upgrade process finished without

Re: 14.1 Building from Git

2019-03-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
mikadoZero, (Probably) not a solution to your problem, I'm afraid, but: mikadoZero wrote: I did copy the suggested exports that were output when I ran `guix package --manifest=manifest.scm` into .zprofile and they were: Guix does *not* suggest copying these into shell initialisation files,

Re: Build package for multiple platforms

2019-03-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
mikadoZero, mikadoZero wrote: (service qemu-binfmt-service-type (qemu-binfmt-configuration (platforms (lookup-qemu-platforms "arm" "aarch64" "ppc" "mips64el")) (guix-support? #t))) When I try to do a system reconfigure I get this error: error: qemu-binfmt-service-type: unbound

Re: Where is mysql/administration command?

2019-02-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, Yoshinori Arai wrote: I have done system reconfigure to add httpd, mysql service to try to setup same environment in GuixSD. […] Why is not mysql commands in system profile? Your operating-system's ‘packages’ field is probably missing ‘mariadb’. Services don't install packages

Re: Where is mysql/administration command?

2019-02-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, znavko wrote: To use mysql/administration commands on GuixSD need to have both: mysql service mysql package When you've reconfigured your system adding mysql service to your config file you can either install mysql for root user Just curious: why for root? Do you prefer su to sudo,

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver wrote: In an earlier message you spoke of another error: but then new error regarding specifying values. :( If you're still getting that error, can you show us the exact error message and the configuration file that caused it? It's guix system: error:

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Mark H Weaver wrote: Raghav Gururajan writes: What and how should I do to enable the following in my Thinkpad X200T (X200 Tablet)? I just got an X230T so I'm very interested in getting the same things working. 1) Buttons on the lid like screen rotation, lock screen etc. Those

Re: Updating Packages

2019-04-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: It seems like, when I do "guix package -u", only packages installed by user are upgraded. It also seems like, when I do "guix system reconfigure", only system installed packages are upgraded. Yes, that's how it works. I gather (’…seems…’) that you didn't

Re: guix pull package output truncated

2019-04-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sleepy hullo, Ludovic Courtès wrote: There’s currently no flag to change this behavior. Instead, you have to run ‘guix pull -l’ but it’s arguably not very convenient. Perhaps we could add an environment variable specifying whether/how to truncate? I’d keep the default as it is now.

Re: Updating Packages

2019-04-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav Gururajan wrote: I had an idea/suggestion. How about adding "guix system -u" feature to guix? So the difference between "guix system reconfigure" and "guix system -u" would be; the former does the reconfiguration cum upgrade process whereas the latter does just the upgrade process to

Re: guix pull package output truncated

2019-04-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Wow! That was quick. Nice. Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Would be nice if `guix pull --news` would take two optional arguments: OLD-COMMIT NEW-COMMIT NEW-COMMIT defaulting to the latest, and OLD-COMMIT defaulting to latest-1. This way we could "diff" the news for any Guix generation.

Re: GNOME Videos

2019-05-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: How to install and enable plugins? Try installing the "gstreamer", "gst-libav", "gst-plugins-base", and "gst-plugins-good" packages. (I'm an MPV user myself, so the above might be overkill, not enough, or anything inbetween.) Kind regards, T G-R

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

2019-05-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
John, John Soo wrote: 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 builds, and so would break the immutability

Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

2019-05-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: This is **very** important when installing grub, in fact grub installation failed when instantiating my config.scm on the HP ProLiant simply because it was on /dev/sda pointing to the USB media; /dev/xdyN names have never been safe to use in this way, though. I

Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

2019-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[Part two, having made my train connection with 8 seconds to spare.] Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: But wait! There's the /dev/disk/by-id/ tree, I did not notice it until now! :-) Yes! That's what I meant! Thank you. I'll be sure to use the udev terminology for this in future, it's confusing

Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

2019-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Giovanni, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: /dev/xdyN names have never been safe to use in this way I'm not talking about partitions ;-) Neither was I. Force o' habit. May your partitions never be in random order. According my faulty memory (I cannot reproduce it now) /dev/sd is what the

Re: Grub Bios Boot filesystem description

2019-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
zna...@disroot.org wrote: Hello! If I want to part my disk and to use 3 partitions: 1) Bios Grub, 2) Linux filesystem, and 3) Linux Swap should I describe my Bios Grub filesystem Nitpick: it's not a file system, just some reserved raw sectors for GRUB. GNU/Linux (ergo Guix) can't read from

Re: GuixSD 1.0.1 Impressions

2019-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
oury.dus...@posteo.net wrote: 3. The graphical installer gives you the option to set the keyboard layout, however when I finally booted into the OS a few keys need to be pressed twice (example: ~,´,¨,¨,^) and not long-pressing them gives accented characters. I´m not sure how to fix this at

Re: how to unmount disk after guix system init error?

2019-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
zna...@disroot.org wrote: /dev/sdb1 150Mb BIOS Boot You're throwing away 149 MiB ;-) Make this 1 MiB (at most), and give the rest to one of your other partitions instead. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Starting emacs as a daemon

2019-06-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Marlin, Marlin wrote: Hi! I'm currently running the guix system, and would like to start the emacs daemon/server at boot. How can i do this? Not used to shepherd yet. Unless you mean ‘at boot’ literally, this is best handled ‘at log-in’ through a separate (user) instance of El Shep.

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jeff Bauer wrote: What am I missing? Moar Scheme: (operating-system … (sudoers-file (local-file "sudoers")) ; relative to this file …) Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: docker-compose not work

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Arkhan, ark...@disroot.org wrote: regards, Hullo, and welcome to Guix! install docker and docker-compose but at the time of executing it I have the following error […] pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'jsonschema<3,>=2.5.1' distribution was not found and is required by

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ehlo Znavko, zna...@disroot.org wrote: oops, not sure it is intel. SiS[0] is not Intel. They're a Taiwanese company whose graphics division later became the ill-fated XGI for a while. Takes me back… :-) here i've placed driver https://gitgud.io/znavko/sis771 As was to be expected,

Re: docker-compose not work

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Edison, Edison Ibáñez wrote: I have tried to update the package as you can see in the paste https://bin.disroot.org/?d21a1c74236d7ebd#FlZ2iQxLIkrclC1O45wr7YuUI5bjBcjStwc710J6TWo= but I still have the same error. Well, I had already said as much in my previous e-mail: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

Re: On youtube-viewer first use (GTK)

2019-06-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sirgazil, Raghav Gururajan reported the same problem on IRC. While youtube-dl is technically an optional dependency (‘some’ videos work without it, maybe even most), the failure mode is so bad (complete silence, not even a ‘please install...’ hint) that I've patched youtube-viewer to

Re: How to set default screen brightness?

2019-06-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jesse, Jesse Gibbons wrote: My Librem 13 laptop battery lasts much longer with a lower screen brightness. When it runs gnome on guix (and I haven't tried any other de) I have to turn down the brightness every time. This is not so with my other partition running PureOS. Is there a way to

Re: How to set default screen brightness?

2019-06-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jesse, Jesse Gibbons wrote: Thanks. I think I can add a service using the `light` tool. Yeah, I currently call it from my .xsession, which is horrible… A proper service would be most welcome. Administrators will likely prefer to install it on anything with a display that runs on battery

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Good morning! sirgazil wrote: [I wrote]: sirgazil wrote: As far as I can see, Jorge is not trying to decompress the ISO but the ".iso.xz" file, which you have to decompress before copying it to the installation media. No… I say so because the first step in the manual for "Copying to a

Re: List available versions of package.

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Philippe, Philippe Veber wrote: I'm getting started with guix, and so far it's been just fine. Welcome! I would like to see all available versions for a given package. Is there a command that would help me with that? There is: $ guix package --list-available=^glibc$ glibc 2.25

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sirgazil, sirgazil wrote: As far as I can see, Jorge is not trying to decompress the ISO but the ".iso.xz" file, which you have to decompress before copying it to the installation media. No… Anyway, I think ‘follow the manual’ is the correct general solution to the problem (and many like

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
sirgazil, sirgazil wrote: Ah, so using GNOME Files you end up doing both, decompress and extract. Thanks :) Yup. Makes perfect sense for ‘.tar.xz’ files: no “regular” user wants the ‘.tar’ file, they want the sweet content. Seems the Gnome authors think the same of ‘.iso.xz’. Maybe they

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Laura, Laura Lazzati wrote: Tobias, fijate que Jorge está seleccionado el archivo .xz, ese es el que está tratando de descomprimir en el .iso, no el .iso Yo sé que lo está intentando, pero no está sucediendo. :-) [Apologies if that accidentally insults anyone's mother & I promise never to

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark, Mark H Weaver wrote: Is this even the same driver? I don't understand the question. Same driver as what? Never mind, I guess we'll find out. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: List available versions of package.

2019-06-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Philippe, Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 09:43, Philippe Veber a écrit : Hello Tobias, and thanks a lot for your answer! I completely missed this reply. I am so sorry. Philippe Veber wrote: Hello everyone, FWIW, I tried the exact example given in the manual [0] and it failed, although for a

Re: Clean Up Files

2019-06-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Is there a way in guix to automatically clean files from ".local", ".cache" and ".config" folders in the home directory. Files are getting retained even after removing applications from the system. Just ‘rm’ them if they really bother you. Guix doesn't touch

Re: Root partition on raid?

2019-06-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tonton, Tonton wrote: This is mostly a shot in the dark, but is it feasible to have a /boot partition with a initramfs on a partition of it's own and then all the rest of / on a raid partition? Sure. I do this on my home server, so I never have to worry about rebooting headlessly after

Re: Root partition on raid?

2019-06-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tonton, Tonton wrote: Hi, no, I use mdadm. Can GRUB see/use/boot this? Yes! Then I think Guix has everything you need. Maybe this is way easier than I thought. Could you share how you configure this on your end? Nothing fancy: --8<---cut

Re: How to configure Xorg to use [proprietary] Sis 771 driver on Guix?

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver wrote: Guix already has 'xf86-video-sis', and it's already included in %default-xorg-modules in (gnu services xorg). So, now we just need to find out why it's not working. Is this even the same driver? Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix system init with mounted btrfs

2019-06-23 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Erk, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: So something's (preventatively?) deleting a directory that has something mounted over or in it, or is a subdirectory itself (although that seems unlikely in this layout). ‘subvolume’, of course… Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc

Re: guix system init with mounted btrfs

2019-06-23 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Matt, [If you sent two mails because your first didn't immediately arrive: it was probably held for moderation since you appear to be new here. Welcome!] Matt Huszagh wrote: I'm encountering the error "rmdir: Device or resource busy" when I attempt to perform guix system init on a mount

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jorge, [I hope English is all right; I don't speak Spanish good.] Jorge Terán wrote: Favor prestar ayuda para resolver la descarga. This isn't a problem with the download. The Guix System installer that you've downloaded is designed to be decompressed and written directly to a DVD or USB

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Laura, Jorge, Laura Lazzati wrote: Por lo que puedo ver tenés un inconveniente de permisos, lo descargaste como root tal vez? Intentá correr `sudo chown ` desde una terminal y decime la salida de eso. From the ‘/boot’ in the screenshot, I gathered that they were trying to extract the

Re: Error al extraer iso guix GNU con linux

2019-06-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Laura, Thanks for helping out in Spanish! Laura Lazzati wrote: Por lo que entiendo, Jorge está intentando extraer el archivo, por eso le pregunté cómo lo descargó y si puede ponerse como owner del mismo para ver qué sucede // As far as I can see, Jorge is trying to extract the tar file,

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: I tried it. But didn't work. Now the error output line during boot " inputattach: invalid type "--w8001"". Our inputattach says… --wacom -wacomWacom W8001 …so I guess it was just renamed since that wiki article was written. Then I'm all out

Re: Guixsd adds 2 hours to a BIOS time

2019-05-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Adam, Adam Mazurkiewicz wrote: I live in Poland and I set time in config.scm in this way: (...) (operating-system (host-name "s") (timezone "Europe/Warsaw") (locale "en_US.utf8") (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "pl")) (...) Then I changed Warsaw to Paris because both have the same

Re: Youtube Viewer

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: I have both youtube-viewer and mpv installed. Under preferences of youtube-viewer, there is "video_player_selected => "mpv",". But when I click play in youtube-viewer, the media is not opening in mpv. What should I do to make this work? I can't

Re: Youtube Viewer

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav Gururajan wrote: guix environment --pure --ad-hoc youtube-viewer mpv -- youtube-viewer I did this and I was led to "hidden@address ~ [env]$". Anyway, I never used command-line for this app. Please run the entire command (also the part after --) on one line (see my follow-up mail).

Re: Youtube Viewer

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: guix environment --pure --ad-hoc youtube-viewer mpv -- \ youtube-viewer My line breaks were off. That's one command on one line. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: When you mess up submission to guix-patches

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tk, Tk wrote: The last moment changes I made to the RMassBank package submission to guix-pathes cause installation error (license variable is a typo). How do I fix this? Should I make another unrelated patch submission, or follow a patch series approach, or .. Please send (a) revised

Re: Youtube Viewer

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav Gururajan wrote: Yes. Please find the following error. Right. My bad. Seems that --pure is a bit too pure for the GTK version. What does the regular ‘youtube-viewer’ say when run in that pure environment? Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Youtube Viewer

2019-05-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pierre Neidhardt wrote: As far as I know, youtube-dl is used as a backend for mpv. Yup. (It's even an absolute store reference now.) Not sure about youtube-viewer. It doesn't refer to ytdl, and the pure environment, at least, doesn't propagate ytdl, so I don't *think* it's used here.

Re: Fingerprint Service

2019-05-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav Gururajan wrote: After Danny's fix, fprintd just works on my X230T: λ fprintd-enroll Using device /net/reactivated/Fprint/Device/0 Enrolling right-index-finger finger. …and the finger print reader lights right up! That's cool! I will try and get back to you. :-) Typing "λ

Re: Package recommended environment variables

2019-05-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tk, Tk wrote: When installing packages, I often get warnings about adding variables to .profile . Which warnings are these? Are you sure that's what they mean? Something like ‘the following variable definitions might be needed’ doesn't mean you should go edit your .profile, but you're far

Re: Newbie Packaging Question

2019-05-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Brian, Brian Woodcox wrote: 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

Re: FreeTube

2019-04-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Dexter Morgan wrote: OMG! Can someone please please pack this into Guix. I'd invite you to give it a try yourself, but I have disappointing news. NPM programmes are a nightmare to properly package and we currently don't even have npm itself in Guix. And, oh... does this depend on

Re: FreeTube

2019-05-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Björn, Dexter, Björn Höfling wrote: I wonder how this gets into FSF directory when there is no way to bootstrap that on a free distro. It hasn't yet: ‘No revision has been approved for this page. View the most recent revision.’ I presume that'll be the first objection during review, if

Re: GuixSD on a laptop with Heads

2019-05-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jonathan, I haven't flashed Heads myself, but am passingly familiar with it since I do basically the same thing on my hardware including an X230 (and intend to recreate that on top of Guix, eventually). Jonathan Frederickson wrote: However, I'm running into some issues when attempting to

Re: FQDN

2019-04-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Unrelated shameless threadjack: does the signature of the previous message show up as ‘bad’ for anyone else? It was made with nothing but the finest GNU :-/ (emacs + gnupg). Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FQDN

2019-04-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: How to add "hostname" as "hostname.domain.tld" in system config? I am looking for the exact syntax. (host-name "lapdog.tobias.gr") Which is so obvious that I assume you tried it & it didn't work? It works here: $ hostname lapdog.tobias.gr I also have:

Re: nckx's siggy (was: FQDN)

2019-04-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: Unrelated shameless threadjack: does the signature of the previous message show up as ‘bad’ for anyone else? It was made with nothing but the finest GNU :-/ (emacs + gnupg). Looking good to me. (In Emacs you'd use mml-secure-message

Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font – Summary

2019-05-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
HWRoitzsch, I'm glad that you've got a working IceCat, even if you have no idea how you got there :-) HWRoitzsch wrote: Finally I shutdown my machine yesterday and started it again today and the issue suddenly disappeared. And the warnings also disappeared from command line output when

Re: Guix System 1.0: No audio

2019-05-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sirgazil, Florian, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 06:52:39AM -0500, sirgazil wrote: Florian, for some reason, the speakers worked today. I'm not sure if running alsamixer yesterday after your instructions had anything to do with it or booting without the headphones

Re: guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm or my-config.scm

2019-05-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hiya Sirgazil, sirgazil wrote: So, should one do the following instead? $ emacs ~/path/to/my-config.scm Modify the file to your liking $ guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure ~/path/to/my-config.scm Oh, it doesn't matter. This file can be whatever and wherever you want

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Hello Guix! Based on this (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html#Miscellaneous-Services), I have included "input-attach-service-type" (with default config, that is, values left blank) to my system services in the

Re: PLEASE! Input Attach Service

2019-07-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: So I did "sudo cat /dev/ttyS4" in the terminal. After 10 seconds, the cursor blinking stopped, This is probably just your terminal emulator helpfully stopping the cursor blink after 10 ‘idle’ seconds to save a tiny bit of power, not related to the serial

Re: Scribus looks pixelated as if zoomed in

2019-04-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
sirgazil, sirgazil wrote: I installed Scribus from Guix in a foreign distro and it looks weird when I launch it. See these screenshots for example: https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/scribus-154-splash-2019-04-22.png

Re: 1) Lid Buttons 2) Stylus Input 3) Fingerprint Scanner

2019-04-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix, Mark H Weaver wrote: The correct module name is: (gnu services authentication) I made the same mistake. For the record, it should be fixed in commit d5752f68ef38ce779723cf5864574374b8417ff3. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: docker-compose complains about jsonechema version

2019-08-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Jeronimo, Jeronimo Pellegrini 写道: and tried again. But at this point, docker-compose complains that the version of jsonschema installed is not what it expects: - expected version is <3,>=2.5.1 - installed version is 3.0.1 Hm. I thought I fixed this bug already… There is no older version

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