bug#30298: core-updates: Failure to find the guixbuild group

2018-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I think you attached strace to the running guix-daemon process here. >> What I meant is that we should trace it from the beginning of its >> execution (so either run it by hand or modify the .servi

bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions

2018-02-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-31 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > The manual section “Preparing for Installation: Disk Partitioning” says > this: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you plan > to install BIOS-based GRUB

bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions

2018-02-01 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-02-01 10:13 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : > 2018-01-31 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > >> The manual section “Preparing for Installation: Disk Partitioning” says >> this: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >>If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table

bug#30311: efi-less grub install fails

2018-02-01 Thread Marius Bakke
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:55:58 +0100 > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> “guix system init” fails with a configuration file that specifies >> grub-bootloader (not grub-efi-bootloader). >> >> “grub-install” reports an error about “lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.

bug#30298: core-updates: Failure to find the guixbuild group

2018-02-01 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 10:06:07AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > And we can see the core-updates guix-daemon try and fail to open > > libnss_compat.so: > > Yes, but in the trace I gave, it then goes on dlopening libnss_files, > which is the NSS module to read databases

bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions

2018-02-01 Thread Joshua Branson
By no means am I a developer, but that sounds like a good idea. On Thu, Feb 1, 2018, at 3:01 AM, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > 2018-02-01 10:13 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : >> 2018-01-31 20:01 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus > berlin.de>:>>> The manual section “Preparing for Installation: Disk >>> Partitionin

bug#30312: documentation: misleading EFI partitioning instructions

2018-02-01 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
On Wed, Jan 31 2018, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Finally, it is not clear where the efi partition should be mounted. Should it be /mnt/boot/efi? If so, should the configuration file specify “/mnt/boot/efi” as the target? Or should it be “/boot/efi”? An example would be useful here. We have an e