bug#41241: xfce4 default font display broken after guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

2020-05-13 Thread W Knight
Summary: After doing a guix pull; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm on a fresh 1.1.0 install via iso the default font for all xfce displays breaks. Each character in menu, applications, and terminals is a box with four dots (no character available). If I switch from generation 2 (r

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

2020-05-12 Thread W Knight
Disclaimer: User error highly likely. Only second day playing around with guix Action attempted: guix pull # As testuser account per < https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#After-System-Installation> Error Message: guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/h1b3