bug#35549: dune failure

2019-05-03 Thread Gabriel Hondet
Hi Julien, On Fri 03 May 2019 at 22:17 Julien Lepiller wrote: > Is /usr/lib/ocaml/METAS referenced somewhere in the sources you're > trying to build? Checking this is indeed a good idea, but no, the path isn't referenced in the sources. > Maybe you could try setting these environment variables

bug#35556: Status: [core-updates] python test suite fails on "test_asyncio"

2019-05-03 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Fixed with commit a5e9413ce8.

bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub

2019-05-03 Thread rendaw
On 5/4/19 12:10 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: > rendaw <7e9wc56emja...@s.rendaw.me> writes: > >> On 5/3/19 7:17 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: >>> It would be great to have UEFI support in the record, >>> mainly for system tests, but I doubt that is what rendaw is after :-) >> Yeah, ideally I'd like secure b

bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

2019-05-03 Thread sirgazil
In my case, "wpa-supplicant" would *always* fail to start (I rebooted and tried the graphical installer around 4 times). Killing "wpa-supplicant" and then running "herd start networking" made it possible for the graphical installer to display the steps where you select Wireless or Wired, and th

bug#35556: [core-updates] python test suite fails on "test_asyncio"

2019-05-03 Thread T460s laptop
The error reads as follows: --8<---cut here---start->8--- == ERROR: test_start_tls_serve

bug#35551: package gcc does not depend on binutils and glibc

2019-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > > You are really looking for `gcc-toolchain' package. See section > > 2.6.6 in the manual. Indeed! Thanks for the answer. > (Speaking as a user, I'd be annoyed to the point of switching if > my distro installed ‘binutils’ when asked for ‘gcc’.) Well, 'guix install emac

bug#35554: No network GUI installed by default on XFCE

2019-05-03 Thread Calle Kabo
install guix 1.0.0, only pick xfce desktop environment when you log in there's no "Network Connections" in Applications > Settings, and there's no network applet in the panel What I did to work around it: sudo nmtui to connect to wifiguix install network-manager guix install network-manager-applet

bug#35551: package gcc does not depend on binutils and glibc

2019-05-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Bruno, Welcome! Nicolas Goaziou wrote: You are really looking for `gcc-toolchain' package. See section 2.6.6 in the manual. Yup! :-) ‘Toolchain’ exactly describes what you're looking for, so I'm going to go ahead and close this bug. (Speaking as a user, I'd be annoyed to the point of sw

bug#35551: package gcc does not depend on binutils and glibc

2019-05-03 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Bruno Haible writes: > After installing the guix-1.0 installation image > (guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux) and running it with qemu, > I wanted to compile a hello-world program in C. > > $ cat hello.c > #include > int main () { > printf("Hello world\n"); > return 0; > } > >

bug#35553: getlogin and getlogin_r fail with error ENXIO

2019-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Running the guix-1.0 installation image (guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux) in qemu, I find that the glibc functions getlogin() and getlogin_r() fail with error ENXIO. Using the gnulib programs test-getlogin and test-getlogin_r I can see that the program is reading the contents of the f

bug#35552: Dead Link

2019-05-03 Thread David Kleuker
Hello, the link "as its name suggests" on https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/ points to https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.html which shows 404 congratulations for guix 1.0 btw! kind regards davidak (a Nix

bug#35551: package gcc does not depend on binutils and glibc

2019-05-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, After installing the guix-1.0 installation image (guix-system-vm-image-1.0.0.x86_64-linux) and running it with qemu, I wanted to compile a hello-world program in C. $ cat hello.c #include int main () { printf("Hello world\n"); return 0; } $ guix install gcc $ gcc hello.c error trying t

bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

2019-05-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo and sirgazil reported on IRC that the ‘wpa-supplicant’ would > (sometimes?) fail to start for the in the installation image on their > laptop. What I observed was that the wpa-supplicant *service* would not start and starting it manually would fail because a w

bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > 678 May 3 16:03:40 localhost vmunix: [ 10.221211] shepherd[1]: Service > dbus-system has been started. > 679 May 3 16:03:40 localhost vmunix: [ 10.222093] shepherd[1]: Service > loopback has been started. > 680 May 3 16:03:40 localhost wpa_supplicant[398]: Succ

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi, > Timothy Sample skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Has anyone tried on a GNOME, Xfce, or ratpoison install? I wonder if >>> the problem is visible there (until you open a terminal, that is.) >> >> I just tried Xfce and it does not work. > > As in you can’t log in at all? Exactly

bug#35549: dune failure

2019-05-03 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Fri, 03 May 2019 21:24:16 +0200, Gabriel Hondet a écrit : > Good evening, > > I tried to build a project with dune, and it failed while trying to > access '/usr/lib/ocaml/METAS': > > [...] > > I'll probably have a look at it tomorrow. If someone has an idea > though, let me know. > > Chee

bug#35550: Installer: wpa_supplicant fails to start

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo and sirgazil reported on IRC that the ‘wpa-supplicant’ would (sometimes?) fail to start for the in the installation image on their laptop. As a result the ‘networking’ service (Connman) would not start either; thus, the installer would report that it failed to establish Internet ac

bug#35549: dune failure

2019-05-03 Thread Gabriel Hondet
Good evening, I tried to build a project with dune, and it failed while trying to access '/usr/lib/ocaml/METAS': $ dune build lambdapi.exe Entering directory '/data0/gabriel/workspace/vcs/lambdapi' Error: exception Sys_error("/usr/lib/ocaml/METAS: No such file or directory") Backtrace: Raised by

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Tim, Timothy Sample skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Has anyone tried on a GNOME, Xfce, or ratpoison install? I wonder if >> the problem is visible there (until you open a terminal, that is.) > > I just tried Xfce and it does not work. As in you can’t log in at all? > Just finished

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:04:18PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I agree we need more automation here. One way to do this would be > something like ‘make assert-binaries-available’, which checks for > substitute availability (it could be a prerequisite of ‘make dist’), > where we’d explicitly ch

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi, Timothy Sample writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Has anyone tried on a GNOME, Xfce, or ratpoison install? I wonder if >> the problem is visible there (until you open a terminal, that is.) > > I just tried Xfce and it does not work. Adding “%base-packages” back > into the config from

bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 02:15:27PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hey, > > > Not sure if this can be fixed. Mathieu? > > The textbox object used for the backtrace window only supports vertical > scrolling. However, the text should be broken in lines that fit the box > horizontally, I'll try

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Has anyone tried on a GNOME, Xfce, or ratpoison install? I wonder if > the problem is visible there (until you open a terminal, that is.) I just tried Xfce and it does not work. Adding “%base-packages” back into the config from the terminal fixed it, though.

bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub

2019-05-03 Thread Marius Bakke
rendaw <7e9wc56emja...@s.rendaw.me> writes: > On 5/3/19 7:17 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: >> It would be great to have UEFI support in the record, >> mainly for system tests, but I doubt that is what rendaw is after :-) > > Yeah, ideally I'd like secure boot from the flashed media but failing > that I

bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Julien Lepiller skribis: > Le Fri, 3 May 2019 11:30:18 +0200, > Danny Milosavljevic a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:54:37 +0200 >> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: >> >> > When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe >> > also Guided?) in the Newt insta

bug#35543: Installer crashes on retry when selecting keyboard layout

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> I believe the broader issue is that the installer cannot really be >> restarted after a failed install, as we discussed a while back on >> guix-devel. Mathieu, can you confirm? > > I'm not aware of this layout issue, however, after the installer is > restarte

bug#35380: disk-image fails to install efi grub

2019-05-03 Thread rendaw
On 5/3/19 7:17 AM, Marius Bakke wrote: > It would be great to have UEFI support in the record, > mainly for system tests, but I doubt that is what rendaw is after :-) Yeah, ideally I'd like secure boot from the flashed media but failing that I'd at least like to be moving closer to it (boot wit

bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error

2019-05-03 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Not sure if this can be fixed. Mathieu? The textbox object used for the backtrace window only supports vertical scrolling. However, the text should be broken in lines that fit the box horizontally, I'll try to find why it doesn't work. Mathieu

bug#35543: Installer crashes on retry when selecting keyboard layout

2019-05-03 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, > I believe the broader issue is that the installer cannot really be > restarted after a failed install, as we discussed a while back on > guix-devel. Mathieu, can you confirm? I'm not aware of this layout issue, however, after the installer is restarted, the install is doomed because s

bug#35543: Installer crashes on retry when selecting keyboard layout

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > If the first install fails (e.g. when the build fails, see separate > bug report on MATE install), it is possible to retry the installation. > However, on the second attempt the installer crashes when selecting a > keyboard layout. [...] > ice-9/eval.scm:

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, I’d like us to better estimate the impact, communicate about workarounds, and have a bug-fix release plan. Like I wrote, in a bare-bones installation, Coreutils & co. are missing, but one can work around it by running, say: guix install coreutils grep sed findutils (Programs like ‘sudo

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the > operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add > %base-packages to the packages field. (When no packages field is > created, %base-packages is added by default.) T

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

2019-05-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Florian, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > >> mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so >> MATE cannot be installed. I guess I should have tested more before >> release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > >> When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the >> operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add >> %base-packages to the packages field. (When no packages field is >> created, %base

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > >> When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the >> operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add >> %base-packages to the packages field. (When no packages field is >> created, %bas

bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > When the Newt installer displays a backtrace, it is possible to scroll > up and down, but not left and right. This cuts off important error > messages. Not sure if this can be fixed. Mathieu? The backtrace is kept in /tmp though. Ludo'.

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the > operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add > %base-packages to the packages field. (When no packages field is > created, %base-packages is added by default.) O

bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe > also Guided?) in the Newt installer, it asks for a password with which > to encrypt the partition. However only the password confirmation > password entry diplays *** instead of

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so > MATE cannot be installed. I guess I should have tested more before > release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug if > really not much can be done), ho

bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext

2019-05-03 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Fri, 3 May 2019 11:30:18 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic a écrit : > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:54:37 +0200 > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > > > When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe > > also Guided?) in the Newt installer, it asks for a password with > > w

bug#35532: guix-daemon was freezed

2019-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, zna...@disroot.org skribis: > So, there I reconnect to Internet and restart guix-daemon with `# herd > restart guix-daemon`, and everything goes fine. Is this reproducible, or is the problem gone now? It may have been a transient networking issue, it’s hard to tell. Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error

2019-05-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:59:27 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > When the Newt installer displays a backtrace, it is possible to scroll > up and down, but not left and right. This cuts off important error > messages. IMO the better solution would be to wrap the text--and not to add anoth

bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext

2019-05-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:54:37 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe > also Guided?) in the Newt installer, it asks for a password with which > to encrypt the partition. However only the password confirmation > password e

bug#35543: Installer crashes on retry when selecting keyboard layout

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
If the first install fails (e.g. when the build fails, see separate bug report on MATE install), it is possible to retry the installation. However, on the second attempt the installer crashes when selecting a keyboard layout. A backtrace is displayed; the important part appears to be this: In ./g

bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
When the Newt installer displays a backtrace, it is possible to scroll up and down, but not left and right. This cuts off important error messages.

bug#35541: Installer does not add %base-packages

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
When and only when the Newt installer creates a packages field in the operating-system configuration e.g. for nss-certs, it does not add %base-packages to the packages field. (When no packages field is created, %base-packages is added by default.)

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so MATE cannot be installed. I guess I should have tested more before release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug if really not much can be done), however maybe a more thorough testing checklist or automation m

bug#35540: Installer displays encrypted partition password entry in cleartext

2019-05-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
When creating an encrypted partition in Manual partitioning (maybe also Guided?) in the Newt installer, it asks for a password with which to encrypt the partition. However only the password confirmation password entry diplays *** instead of the typed password, the password entry before display