bug#34778: Guix refresh -u fails

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > guix refresh -u unibilium > fails with the following backtrace: > gabriel@guixsd ~/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u unibilium > Backtrace: > 14 (apply-smob/1 #) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 705:2 13 (call-with-prompt _ _ #) > In ice-9/eval.scm:

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! There were two issues: 1. /var/empty would be 700 and owned by one of the accounts that uses it as its home directories. Consequently, polkitd would fail to chdir to it, and thus fail to start. 2. /var/run/dbus would be 700 as well, but the problem is that it contains

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Jack Hill
FYI: Ludo' is also working on this. From IRC: < civodul> jackhill: looks like i found the issue with GDM: /var/empty is no longer 555, which it should be < civodul> testing a fix...

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: Hmm, try strace /gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlqcg3ysgjrvyh3g57x-polkit-0.115/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug >some_log_file.txt 2>&1 Maybe we can find what it doesn't like there... I've attached the strace output.execve("/gnu/store/vs2ibcf146467vlq

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 14:39:49 -0500 (EST) Jack Hill wrote: > root@lib-its13 /gnu/store# cat > c57y49r44086xi8lh12s192m2w26b0ba-dbus-system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service > [D-BUS Service] > Name=org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 > Exec=/gnu/store/n9x6x19y5fsv6j0y3kpppgcycagg6y79-polkit-

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Jack Hill
Danny and Guix, On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: is that on a standalone Guix system or on another distribution? standalone Guix system Please try to find a file named "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service" in /gnu/store and then find a line like the following in it: Exec=/gnu/

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, is that on a standalone Guix system or on another distribution? Please try to find a file named "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service" in /gnu/store and then find a line like the following in it: Exec=/gnu/store/xfysy3c824m4z8b07sbiangp7i2xfh6s-polkit-0.113/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug Th

bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2019-03-08 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-03-08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian skribis: >> I'm not sure where it would be appropriate to add more comments >> regarding the GPL/Openssl incompatibilities; e.g. if someone were to >> propose adding one of the u-boot targets that requires it, they might >> just go ahead an

bug#34768: guix-daemon tmpfs out of space on parabola

2019-03-08 Thread swedebugia
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skrev: (6 mars 2019 15:31:13 CET) >Hullo, > >swedebugia wrote: >> I'm trying to build New Moon (unbranded palemoon browser) in >> parabola. >> The tmpfs i 2G which is way too little it seems. >> >> I read the man page of guix-daemon and the manual and could not >> find a >

bug#34788: Trouble starting GNOME -- fails to activate "org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1"

2019-03-08 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, Today I noticed that I'm having trouble starting a GNOME session. If I'm using GDM, GDM also fails to start. If slim, then slim starts, but bringing up the GNOME session fails. In /var/log/gdm/greeter.log I see "(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied)

bug#34786: “guix offload test” doesn’t report missing key pairs on the remote host

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, When trying to offload to a remote machine R that doesn’t have a key pair in /etc/guix, ‘guix offload test’ currently fails like this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix offload: testing 3 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'... guix offloa

bug#34637: inferiors example yields error from guix package

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Martin Flack skribis: > $ guix --version > guix (GNU Guix) 3546e97f38bb4dfa4c016cd7a20d4add277ca8f7 [...] > There is maybe an extra clue in guix environment output, regarding repl: > > ``` > $ guix environment --ad-hoc -m example-inferior.scm > > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository

bug#34574: Confusing manual entry for gexp->file

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:17:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Florian, >> >> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: >> >> > The Guix manual contains the following description of gexp->file: >> > >> > -- Monadic Procedure: gexp->file

bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > I've tested that the attached patch builds all u-boot-* targets on > x86_64 (cross-building most of them), with openssl removed from > native-inputs. > > Unfortunately, u-boot-tools fails it's tests on aarch64 and armhf, but > that appears to be the case with or

bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > Here’s an estimate: Oops, I was doing an “or” instead of an “and”; here’s the fix: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix package -s "" |recsel -e 'license ~ "GPL" && dependencies ~ "openssl"' |grep ^name | wc -l 154 --8<

bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > I can't believe I seriously suggest the following but: > > A license algebra [...] Yeah, licensing is anything but an algebra, so let’s not take that path. :-) Ludo’.

bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2019-03-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2019-03-06, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> openssl@1.0 has 7,029 dependent packages, so it may be hard to sort it >> out. I wonder what would be the best way to approach it. > > How many of them are also license:gpl* though? That would hopefully > reduce th