bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mark H Weaver wrote: FWIW, I used this partition layout for years, including on Guix systems, and it worked fine. Impossible, sorry. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Znavko, zna...@disroot.org wrote: I have another laptop (Lenovo G50-30) where Guix works on this partition layout I've made manually: # fdisk -l /dev/sda ... ^ You removed the most important part, please don't do this on help lists. Still, we can tell that this is an ‘mbr’ layout: Devic

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > zna...@disroot.org wrote: >> bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition > > Installing GRUB to your root partition isn't supported, and should > never be necessary anyway. > >> Hello! I was not able to install Guix having 2 partitions: >> /d

bug#36264: shepherd doesn't capture service stdout/stderr

2019-06-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello guix, Robert Vollmert ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jún. 17., Hét 18:55): > On a pretty fresh Guix System install, I see some regular > sshd error messages on tty1 (which I guess means they’re > written to /dev/console). Also, setting up a regular > shepherd service via make-forkexec-constructo

bug#36267: Stable bootstrap sources

2019-06-17 Thread Marius Bakke
Guix, I noticed that 'tcc-boot0' from (gnu packages commencement) is downloaded from what appears to be a GitLab-generated tarball (this is on the 'core-updates' branch). To ensure that any revision of Guix can be easily bootstrapped "forever", it would be great to mirror this and adjust the URL

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
Yes, I use Bios grub everywhere. June 17, 2019 5:10 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" wrote: > Danny, > > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >> which grub is that? grub-efi? > > i386-pc, so ‘BIOS’ (which means it's trying to use blocklists, > which is fragile & won't work without --force). > > Kind rega

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Znavko, zna...@disroot.org wrote: bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition Installing GRUB to your root partition isn't supported, and should never be necessary anyway. Hello! I was not able to install Guix having 2 partitions: /dev/sda1 ext4 Linux filesystem /dev/sda2 Linux

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
I have another laptop (Lenovo G50-30) where Guix works on this partition layout I've made manually: # fdisk -l /dev/sda ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda12048 23000 229997953 109.7G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 23640 234441647 4441008 2.

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Danny, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: which grub is that? grub-efi? i386-pc, so ‘BIOS’ (which means it's trying to use blocklists, which is fragile & won't work without --force). Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#36264: shepherd doesn't capture service stdout/stderr

2019-06-17 Thread Robert Vollmert
On a pretty fresh Guix System install, I see some regular sshd error messages on tty1 (which I guess means they’re written to /dev/console). Also, setting up a regular shepherd service via make-forkexec-constructor for a program that logs to stderr (postgrest which I’m in the process of packaging),

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, which grub is that? grub-efi? pgpWU7ufzDsqF.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#35998: Typo on guix blog. ATTN: Ludovic Courtès

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello David, David Loyall skribis: > Hi. I think there is a typo on this blog post: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released/ > > The link on the text "The installer can now create Btrfs file systems" > points to bug #35716, but I think it was supposed to point to s

bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
Hello! I was not able to install Guix having 2 partitions: /dev/sda1 ext4 Linux filesystem /dev/sda2 Linux Swap `guix system init` says in this case: guix system: error: failed to install bootloader Screen: http://0x0.st/zeLs.jpg

bug#36261: Does not reboot after guix init system

2019-06-17 Thread znavko
As manual says 'Once that command has completed—and hopefully succeeded!—you can run reboot and boot into the new system.', guix really does not reboot every time after manual installation.

bug#36215: guix system docker-image fails when store items contain non-ascii characters

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Björn, Björn Höfling skribis: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:05:06 +0200 > Björn Höfling wrote: > >> qemu-system-x86_64: warning: hub 0 is not connected to host network > > [..] > >> ERROR: In procedure lstat: >> In procedure lstat: No such file or directory: >> "/guixsd-system-root/gnu/store/6w65

bug#36238: Problems cross-compiling on core-updates

2019-06-17 Thread Marius Bakke
Carl Dong writes: > Unfortunately b1593c1c4fd8f4fc6df4c43cab51334426e3aa76 still doesn't work, > I've > attached the log. Drat. Plain text log: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Making check in . make[2]: Entering directory '/tmp/guix-build-bison-3.4.1.drv-0/bi

bug#36242: Repacked source checkouts get a misleading file name

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Marius Bakke skribis: > From 0c44561d0d45de91f4674d659b86d740642ae801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Marius Bakke > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:50:15 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] packages: Keep full version in file name when repacking > source checkouts. > > * guix/packages.scm (patch-and-r

bug#36240: indent-code.el is not aware of (package (inherit ...)) style

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Robert, Robert Vollmert skribis: > When encountering a package definition that starts > > (package (inherit other-package)) > > etc/indent-code.el will indent the rest of the package body > to align with the start of (inherit. That seems to be a > common idiom, used in roughly half of the i

bug#36238: Problems cross-compiling on core-updates

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, --8<---cut here---start->8--- starting phase `check' [...] CC examples/c/lexcalc/lexcalc-scan.o ./examples/c/reccalc/scan.l:13:10: fatal error: parse.h: No such file or directory #include "parse.h" ^ compilation terminated.

bug#36221: Make GDM *not* restart 504 times on failure

2019-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > If GDM does not start for whatever reason, it attempts to restart 504 > more times which all fail and overwrite all five old logs. It > probably should not attempt to restart at all. I think the auto-restart code that’s triggered is in GDM itself, no