bug#40590:

2020-04-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, >> * This custom release[3]: 1.1.0-rc2 + the patch suggested by Danny for >> partitions > 1TiB. >> [3]: Via ipfs: QmbbkQZc7fbsDrutNwVuvpFep3dBjZx6muni3WgXjRneq7 > It occured to me that the Samsung drive might have been corrupted at > some point, so I dd'd /dev/zero into the first few gigaby

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Florian, > Please try adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters. I hope this > makes the Intel machine work fine. Yes it works fine with nomodeset! Do you think we can do something about it, besides adding a few lines in the documentation to warn that old hardware may require this option

bug#40605: Build of volk-1.3 failed during guix upgrade

2020-04-14 Thread Efraim Flashner
I've upgraded volk to 2.2.1. Can you test that everything seems to be working? -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:24:52AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello Florian, > > > Please try adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters. I hope this > > makes the Intel machine work fine. > > Yes it works fine with nomodeset! Do you think we can do something about > it, besides adding a

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:16:52AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > 1) Make the loading of the uvesafb kernel module by the installer > conditional. For your GPU, don’t load uvesafb, if before it worked > without. P.S. I would suppose that a lot of cases and lspci parsing might be neede

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:37:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Maybe the sigsegv even shows up in QEMU? Sadly QEMU shows no sigsegv. Neither does a real-hardware AMD GPU PC. I have no machine with old Intel GPU. None of my machines has SIGSEGV in v86d. Regards, Florian

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > The installer crashed again after entering a newly invented hostname > “a” (perhaps it was already in use from my previous attempt?). But > later my normal hostname “florianmacbook” worked and network > technologies failed. The hostname comma

bug#40618: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-mmt.

2020-04-14 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Alberto Eleuterio Flores Guerrero writes: > * gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm (emacs-mmt): New variable. Thank you. I applied it with the changes explained before: use version tag instead of commit string, fix license. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou

bug#40624: installer: info manual language does not adapt to locale

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello! When I choose français or Deutsch or Español as locale in the installer, the info manual does not change language. I think it did before. This is when booting from USB. I have not tried QEMU. Regards, Florian

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Thank you for debugging. On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Everything seems to be extremely slow on this machine (booting from an > actual DVD, right?). Yes. USB boot has no issues (except I cannot boot from USB on my Uniwill U50SI1). > To confirm this hypothes

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > That is good to hear! The options I know of are: > > 1) Make the loading of the uvesafb kernel module by the installer > conditional. For your GPU, don’t load uvesafb, if before it worked > without. > > 2) Add modprobe.blacklist=i915 to the default k

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Or better yet, is there a way to check whether KMS is already using > another driver, and to not load uvesafb in that case? Probably there’s > some info in /sys. Hmm I will try if checking for the presence of /dev/fb0 helps. Rega

bug#40624: installer: info manual language does not adapt to locale

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > When I choose français or Deutsch or Español as locale in the > installer, the info manual does not change language. I think it did > before. This is when booting from USB. I have not tried QEMU. Fixed in 893651af3ec8ea003404cfefbbaa4fcd56dad3d5.

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:28:38PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Or better yet, is there a way to check whether KMS is already using > > another driver, and to not load uvesafb in that case? Probably there’s > > some

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: > And testing Florians suggestions: > > setting 'nomodeset' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine > > setting 'modprobe.blacklist=i915' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine > > As mentioned before, I did manage to install guix

bug#40626: Poor performance on low-end ARMv7 devices

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! On my Olimex OLinuXino A20, here’s what I get with Guix on Guile 3.0.2: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix describe Generation 1Apr 11 2020 13:26:01(current) guix 6720616 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git commi

bug#40612: guix build system --dry-run is broken

2020-04-14 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:31:56 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > I guess this is related to the recent changes in graft handling, where > --dry-run (a.k.a. -n) no longer implies --no-grafts. It's not working > well for me. I hadn't updated my system since before those grafting > changes were made, and

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:28:38PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > Or better yet, is there a way to check whether KMS is already using >> > another driver, and to

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:40:53AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > To confirm this hypothesis, we need to run “strace -t”, see below (sorry >> > for not thinking

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread Niels Felsted
Hi Ludovic and Florian Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Niels, > > Niels Felsted skribis: > >> I have have installed guix on a old laptop from. I dd'ed the iso file: >> >> guix-system-install-1.1.0rc2.i686-linux.iso >> >> on a usb stick, and booted from it. >> >> It boots directly into a ncurses gu

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Christopher Howard
Thank you, I'd like to try ssh. Would someone be willing to share what qemu and ssh commands they are using to establish the connection? -Original Message- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen To: Christopher Howard Cc: Ludovic Courtès , 40...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm buil

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Janneke, On +2020-04-14 07:46:48 +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Christopher Howard writes: > > > I'm having some trouble playing around with the VM, because a lot of > > weird things are happening with keyboard input into the qemu > > window. It seems like the meta keys (shift, ctrl, alt, s

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Niels & Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: >> And testing Florians suggestions: >> >> setting 'nomodeset' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine >> >> setting 'modprobe.blacklist=i915' kernel parameter -> screen

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Howard writes: > Thank you, I'd like to try ssh. Would someone be willing to share what > qemu and ssh commands they are using to establish the connection? Sure...not sure where to put this guix environment --ad-hoc qemu -- qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -drive file=geert.img,cach

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Florian, > They do show that the uvesafb shepherd service was started, even when > it did not load uvesafb. Maybe the shepherd service should be > renamed. I did check on my recent hardware, the module is not loaded anymore and everything works fine. On my old Intel machine, I guess uvesaf

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Christopher Howard
I am using only a mouse. I unplugged the mouse, but am getting similar behavior. Something of interest, however: the keyboard inputs seem to be working fine until a few seconds after I "login root", at which point the emulated VGA screen blinks, and the wonky behavior starts. -Original Messag

bug#40626: Poor performance on low-end ARMv7 devices

2020-04-14 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 14 avril 2020 09:59:24 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit : >Hello! > >On my Olimex OLinuXino A20, here’s what I get with Guix on Guile 3.0.2: > >--8<---cut here---start->8--- >$ guix describe >Generation 1Apr 11 2020 13:26:01(current) > guix 67206

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:36:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Could you build an ISO image with the patch below on top of > bd4c345ef7ddf3542662fe0872b06393b414a3fc and confirm that it works for > you? Sorry it still fails despite /gnu/store/*shepherd.conf really containing the set! of the ti

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread Niels Felsted
Hi Ludovic Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Niels & Florian, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:06:25PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: >>> And testing Florians suggestions: >>> >>> setting 'nomodeset' kernel parameter -> screen displays fine >>> >>> setting 'mo

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:20:09PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: > 1.1.0rc2.5 works fine here! Thank you greatly for showing me uvesafb is not always harmless. :) Closing. Regards, Florian

bug#40626: Poor performance on low-end ARMv7 devices

2020-04-14 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
For comparison, on a Banana Pi M2 Ultra I get: root@bpi-iot-ros-ai:/# time guix build hello -d --no-grafts /gnu/store/yp46hszc04dx2zy6kscy1zmjfg9y8flq-hello-2.10.drv real0m13.481s user0m11.230s sys 0m0.900s root@bpi-iot-ros-ai:/# time guix build hello -d --no-grafts /gnu/store/yp46hs

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Howard writes: > I am using only a mouse. I unplugged the mouse, but am getting similar > behavior. > > Something of interest, however: the keyboard inputs seem to be working > fine until a few seconds after I "login root", at which point the > emulated VGA screen blinks, and the wonky

bug#40599: 1.1.0rc2 i686 gui install unreadable

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 08:20:09PM +0200, Niels Felsted wrote: >> 1.1.0rc2.5 works fine here! > > Thank you greatly for showing me uvesafb is not always harmless. :) Awesome, thank you for re-testing, Niels! Ludo’.

bug#40626: Poor performance on low-end ARMv7 devices

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > root@bpi-iot-ros-ai:/# guix repl > GNU Guile 2.2.4 This is a fairly old Guix though, so not directly comparable. Could you try with a current Guix? (Yeah, you’ll have to pull, and that takes very loong. Be sure to pick a commit that’s fully built

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 04:36:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Could you build an ISO image with the patch below on top of >> bd4c345ef7ddf3542662fe0872b06393b414a3fc and confirm that it works for >> you? > > Sorry it still fails despite /gnu/stor

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:17:01PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Silly me, I think it works if we set! before loading services. > > Could you double-check with the patch below? > Yes!! I get past the network setup and herd status shows all networking and wpa-supplicant as started. Great! >

bug#40538: installer: Support uvesafb to install on machines without KMS.

2020-04-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:09:23PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hey Florian, > > > They do show that the uvesafb shepherd service was started, even when > > it did not load uvesafb. Maybe the shepherd service should be > > renamed. > > I did check on my recent hardware, the module is not

bug#40613: [PATCH] gnu: Add emacs-typing.

2020-04-14 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Alberto Eleuterio Flores Guerrero writes: > * gnu/packages/emacs-xyz.scm (emacs-typing): New variable. Thank you. > +(define-public emacs-typing > + (package > +(name "emacs-typing") > +(version "1.1.4") This is not a regular release, this is extracted from the main file. We n

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:17:01PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Silly me, I think it works if we set! before loading services. >> >> Could you double-check with the patch below? >> > > Yes!! I get past the network setup and herd status shows all > ne

bug#40572: installer networking: Connman detects no technologies on Acer Aspire

2020-04-14 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Ludo, Florian, On +2020-04-14 16:36:12 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] > Woow, the first dbus-daemon process needs 20s from exec to PID file: [...] > 13:46:26 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/run/dbus/pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644) > = 5 ^^^ I us

bug#40590:

2020-04-14 Thread Keyhenge
Progress! But not quite there yet. It occured to me that the Samsung drive might have been corrupted at some point, so I dd'd /dev/zero into the first few gigabytes of the drive to completely wipe the partition table. Sure enough, it showed up on the partitioning stage of the graphical install

bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure

2020-04-14 Thread Christopher Howard
-Original Message- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen To: Christopher Howard Cc: Bengt Richter , 40...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#40542: wip-hurm-vm build failure Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:30:14 +0200 Christopher Howard writes: > I am using only a mouse. I unplugged the mouse, but am getting

bug#40583: guix-system-install-1.0.1.i686 fails to build amdgpu

2020-04-14 Thread ryan
Hello Ludo, I tried installing guix-system-install-1.1.0rc2.i686-linux.iso. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to use this version either.  The graphical installer isn't visible due to the noise.  I also had some issues getting the logs off the eeepc, but dmesg ended with the following lines. [  

bug#40590:

2020-04-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, > Just in case its relevant, I did the installation twice (both through > TTY in order to run the mount/rm commands): > 1. 2 partitions, boot and encrypted root w/ swapfile, using desktop.scm > as a base > 2. 3 partitions, boot, root, and a swap partition, using > lightweight-desktop.scm