bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
It looks like I was wrong on the ls example, more importantly, it seems we all agree that short options with optional arguments are messy, at best. I think the best course of action is to take a look at the guix command line design and find a way to move away from depending on them. Maybe some

bug#26046: ESS installed without autoload

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear, Digging in the bug tracker, I found this bug [1] about ESS saying that it does not behave like all other Emacs packages; installing in '$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess' instead of "guix.d". Well, all other packages do install in '$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/' as the manual says [2]. Because

bug#25632: shogun: Do not upgrade before adjusting the snippet (nonfree)

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Hi Ricardo, This bug [1] is fixed by commit 5a14e81e413. If it really is, feel free to close. Cheers, simon [1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25632

bug#24789: closing #24789

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear, Because this bug is more than 3 years old, tagged moreinfo and without any answer by the submitter since 12 weeks, I am closing. Best regards, simon

bug#41224: Documentation: Inconsistent disk device between create vm (sda) and run vm (vda) causes "guix system reconfigure" failure

2020-05-12 Thread W Knight
Summary: The instructions to build a virtual machine uses /dev/sda* devices for harddrive which are then referenced in /etc/config.scm. The instructions to run the vm uses /dev/vda* devices for harddrive This causes "sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm" to fail with... guix system: e

bug#22366: Status? Chicken Scheme release tarballs ship non-source C code

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear David, The bug report [1] opened more than 4 years ago about the Chicken bootstrapping is still pending. I am not sure to understand these lines; quoting you [1]: << Generated from optimizer.scm by the CHICKEN compiler This is *not* source code, it's a binary disguised as C source code

bug#22158: Hunting: chicken tests do not complete gcc compilation

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear, This bug [1] is more than 4 years old. Does this bug report still make sense? If yes, could you provide more information? (Guix commit) If no, could we close it? Best regards, simon [1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22158

bug#41217: Resolution

2020-05-12 Thread W Knight
After troubleshooting with lfam, rekado, cbaines in #guix the problem was found to be caused by lack of ram during "guix pull". With 1GB of ram for VM "guix pull" fails at different locations. With 2GB of ram "guix pull" finishes. Low point of available system memory (per 'free -s') during pu

bug#41217: Resolution

2020-05-12 Thread W Knight
After troubleshooting with lfam, rekado, cbaines in #guix the problem was found to be caused by lack of ram during "guix pull". With 1GB of ram for VM "guix pull" fails at different locations. With 2GB of ram "guix pull" finishes. Low point of available system memory (per 'free -s') during pul

bug#40929: go-sctp build failure: "protocol not supported"

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear Josh, On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 16:20, Josh Holland wrote: > Ah, that's good. I'll just wait for the (hopefully soon) core-updates > merge since this isn't essential to me. If it is fixed, then presumably > this bug can be closed? Could you confirm that the bug is now fixed for you? If yes,

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 22:19, Tom Zander wrote: > They are expected to always be equivalent. It would not be logical to have the > short one as an alias if they are not equivalent. I agree. Note that you cannot have short-name with optional argument or you have to break a rule; see below. > >

bug#41211: texlive-luatex-luaotfload fails to build

2020-05-12 Thread Marius Bakke
merge 39755 41211 thanks Thanks for the report. I tried updating texlive-lualatex-otfload a while back, but gave up because the new versions needs "l3build" which I have zero experience with. Any pointers for packaging and using l3build appreciated. For reference, as the original home page has

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 20:08:32 CEST zimoun wrote: > > The design of the short options is that it is an alias. Identical to the > > software regardless of what the user typed. > > Yes. But AFAIU, it is hard -- not impossible -- to detect what is an > argument or what is another option in the case

bug#41217: guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/h1b3kqafcgwv5zdj98f9ka3nppkz4l09-compute-guix-derivation'

2020-05-12 Thread W Knight
(bootloader grub-bootloader) (target "/dev/sda") (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))) (swap-devices (list "/dev/sda2")) (file-systems (cons* (file-system (mount-point "/") (device (uuid "dcb203af-8c28-473b-b101-8553950c56fe" 'ext4)) (type &

bug#41215: memory leak in gnome-shell

2020-05-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I see a memory leak in Gnome Shell 3.32.2 The following is top output after several days of uptime: PID USER PR NIVIRTRES %CPU %MEM ZEIT+ S BEFEHL 864 gdm 20 0 39,6g 1,1g

bug#41214: Pulling 1.0.0 fails while running ‘compute-guix-derivation’

2020-05-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
>From today’s Guix, where (default-guile) is 3.0, I can’t build 1.0.0: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix describe Generacio 142 May 11 2020 00:51:39(nuna) guix b76b1d3 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master

bug#34135: IceCat lacks WebGL support

2020-05-12 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
429c8284d232c3f9fbe3dc87a3da323f3a864c03 did preliminary work for ffmpeg white listing. So we need to add the WebGL required stuff as well to that whitelist. I'll see what I can do.

bug#41212: fail to build python-parso

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear, I am not able to reproduce. --8<---cut here---start->8--- # first to populate the store guix time-machine --commit=91be384 \ -- build python-parso # second to really build it guix time-machine --commit=91be384 \ -- build python-parso --no-graft

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear Tom, On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 18:23, Tom Zander wrote: > The other is the ordering of arguments being parsed unpredictable. > The usecase given was the `-d 1 -S 2` arguments (see earlier emails for > details). Fix for that coming soon. :-) Thank you for the report. > > Please could you i

bug#40549: proposal for 'process-actions'

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 15:03:14 CEST zimoun wrote: > If yes, I can come up with a patch. I think that would be much improved, yes. -- Tom Zander

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 13:35:04 CEST zimoun wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 11:55, Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix > > wrote: > > the bugreport is a usability bug which stems from the fact that the > > command > > line parser behaves differently from every single other commandline parser

bug#41213: boost-for-mysql fails to build

2020-05-12 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
boost-for-mysql fails to build on current master with following error. ``` starting phase `configure' Backtrace: 10 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/bsfksp6c63zj3ynx46ck87sip7a…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 9 (_ _) In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 838:2 8 (gnu-build #:source _ #:ou

bug#39955: wxmaxima: broken help menus

2020-05-12 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, after a few months, I still have this problem, though the symptoms changed somewhat. Now, if I click on either the Help >> wxMaxima help menu, or the Help >> Maxima help menu, wxMaxima simply terminates, and the word "Aborted" is dumped to stderr. -- Christopher Howard Enterprise Solutions Ma

bug#41212: fail to build python-parso

2020-05-12 Thread srandom
my guix describe: Generation 3May 12 2020 09:03:13(current) guix 91be384 repository URL: /opt/guix branch: master commit: 91be384d2ef87af58f814e10a4ce0d8717bea647 (I store the git repository in /opt/guix and pull the source code of upstream https://github.com/guix-mirror/

bug#41211: texlive-luatex-luaotfload fails to build

2020-05-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
--8<---cut here---start->8--- starting phase `configure' Backtrace: 19 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/4f9lljysahpgjjlzw02dvnhajnk…") In ice-9/eval.scm: 191:35 18 (_ _) In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: 838:2 17 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:

bug#41210: gcc-cross-sans-libc-arm-none-eabi-4.9.4-1.227977 fails to build

2020-05-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
gcc-cross-sans-libc-arm-none-eabi-4.9.4-1.227977 (an input to axoloti-patcher) fails to build. Just like with issue #41209 the headers for both GCC 5 and 7 are included. --8<---cut here---start->8--- … make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/guix-build-avr-gcc-5.5.0.

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Dear Tom, On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 11:55, Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: [...] > C apps using libc, python apps using their parser, even C++ apps using the Qt > commandline classes, all are generally compatible with regards to behavior. > > Only Guix is different. Please could yo

bug#41209: AVR toolchain fails to build

2020-05-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
avr-toolchain-5.5.0 fails to build. It seems to be mixing headers from GCC 5 and GCC 7: --8<---cut here---start->8--- In file included from /gnu/store/rn75fm7adgx3pw5j8pg3bczfqq1y17lk-gcc-7.5.0/include/c++/stdlib.h:36:0, from ../../gcc-5.5.0/l

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 10:51, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nothing new here, and everything is properly documented. Using optional argument with short-option names is unusual, AFAIK. And for sure, there is an ambiguity; as we are seeing here. :-) However, the only mention of that is in the commentar

bug#40549: proposal for 'process-actions'

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Hi again, :-) On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 12:38, zimoun wrote: > > We’ll need to check exactly what will behave differently. If the tests > > don’t catch anything, I think we’re fine. Most likely, we’re talking > > about corner cases like ‘-S x -d y’, which probably very few people > > tried. > > O

bug#40558: (no subject)

2020-05-12 Thread Jelle Licht
elaexuo...@wilsonb.com writes: > With the patch to texlive-amsfonts the above typesets just fine; however, > metafont ends up generating cmmi10.657pk and cmr10.657pk font files. Is this > expected? Typsetting it from the texlive installation of my foreign distro > doesn't call out to metafont a

bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces

2020-05-12 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM. The error looks like: WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No suc

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 11:55, Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > the bugreport is a usability bug which stems from the fact that the command > line parser behaves differently from every single other commandline parser > average people like me have ever used. > > A near 100% of the c

bug#41205: make check stucks for hours

2020-05-12 Thread Wensheng Xie
commands run 0. pwd = ~/work/guix 1. guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc git emacs strace gnupg 2. ./bootstrap 3. ./configure 4. make check output: wxie@guix ~/work/guix$ guix environment guix --pure --ad-hoc git emacs strace gnupg Folgende Ableitung wird erstellt: /gnu/store/96sb2i83hqwnxam

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, Sorry, I am not compliant and reorder your quotes to ease the discussion -- from my point of view. :-) On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 10:51, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > However (srfi srfi-37) does it as we see it now. Fixing it would mean > implementing a different option parser. Yes or add a

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Zander via Bug reports for GNU Guix
On dinsdag 12 mei 2020 10:51:28 CEST Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nothing new here, and everything is properly documented. The bugreport was not about a disconnect between documentation and the tool, the bugreport is a usability bug which stems from the fact that the command line parser behaves diff

bug#40682: Installer hangs while connecting to WiFi network

2020-05-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus via web
Alternative URL: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40993

bug#40682: frozen installer in WiFi section -guix 1.1.0

2020-05-12 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Leo, > If we have a fix, can we make a new installer image? There are people on > #guix having trouble getting online in the installer, and I think they > are hitting this issue. This bug has been fixed with ea6594e0. However, I left the ticket open because I'm supposed to add some testing

bug#40549: More usability issues:

2020-05-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: >> --8<---cut here---start->8---> # OK >> guix package --list-generations -p /path/to/profile >> guix package --list-installed -p /path/to/profile >> >> # KO >> guix package -l -p /path/to/profile >> guix package -I -p /path/to/profile

bug#41182: Profile hooks ignore system and target

2020-05-12 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo, > So I’m very much tempted to instead require each hook to take ‘system’ > and ‘#:target’ arguments and pass them to ‘gexp->derivation’. It’ll > break the API, in case someone out there has custom profile hooks > (unlikely given that it’s not really documented), but I’d say that’s OK.