bug#24948: Illegible GRUB menu

[Chris Marusich]

Leo Famulari  writes:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:34:21AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
>> Leo Famulari  writes:
>> 
>> > On my Thinkpad x200s running GuixSD, the graphical GRUB menu is
>> > scrambled and illegible. I've attached a photograph of the problem.
>> 
>> I also have an x200 running GuixSD (with Libreboot).  I do not
>> experience this issue; the GRUB menu looks correct to me.
>
> I have an x200s, which is a slightly different machine.

I misunderstood.  Thank you for the clarification.

>> Are you using Libreboot with the GRUB payload?  If so, what version of
>> Libreboot [1]?  What version of GuixSD?  If you are using recent
>> versions and the issue is still happening, I wonder if perhaps your
>> hardware is different from mine.
>
> I'm using the BIOS that came with the computer when I bought it
> second-hand; it appears to be from Lenovo. I don't know whether or not
> the differences in our hardware would cause this issue. And like I said
> before, this used to work for me.

I'm curious to know if I would encounter the same problem if I were
actually running the GRUB that Guix installed (to my drive), rather than
the GRUB which Libreboot installed (to my internal memory).  However, I
am not sure how to run the GRUB that Guix installed; I tried
chainloading it manually from Libreboot's GRUB, but I was unsuccessful.
Unfortunately, this means I can't currently reproduce your issue.

Can anyone else reproduce this issue?

-- 
Chris


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bug#24442: gettext: No PO mode for Emacs (or wrong description)

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2016-09-29 13:15:45 +0200) wrote:

> Alex Kost (2016-09-29 11:03:41 +0300) wrote:
> 
> > Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2016-09-15 09:04 +0200) wrote:
> > 
> > > The description for ``gettext@0.19.8`` (current) includes this sentence:
> > >
> > > It provides translators with the means to create message
> > > catalogs, as well as an Emacs mode to work with them, and a
> > > runtime library to load translated messages from the catalogs.
> > >
> > > However, no output of the package includes the files for Emacs.
> > 
> > This is fixed in 'core-updates' branch now:
> > ,
> > however since the fix is not available for users (until core-updates
> > will be merged into master) I think it's better to leave this bug
> > opened.
> > 
> > Once the fix appears in 'master' (I will let you know when it
> > happens), a user could do "guix pull" and install (or update)
> > 'gettext' in his/her profile.  Then 'po-mode' will become available
> > by default (without any additional settings in user's .emacs), it
> > means that whenever you will open .po file, 'po-mode' will be loaded
> > and enabled automatically.
> 
> Impressive, thanks a lot to everyone!

Working like a charm since the last upgrade, thank you!

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