bug#42247: Channel news raise error on `guix pull`

2020-07-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I've added a news-file entry to my channel: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (channel (version 0) (news-file "news.scm")) --8<---cut here---end--->8--- which contains --8<---cut here---start---

bug#42250: offload test failure: guile bug?

2020-07-07 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, I carefully followed the instructions in "Using the Offload Facility" section of the manual, but am getting this error when running `guix offload test': """ christopher@theoden ~$ guix offload test guix offload: testing 1 build machines defined in '/etc/guix/machines.scm'... guix offload: Guix

bug#42252: Not possible to reliably port forward with "guix system vm" anymore

2020-07-07 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
In commit 5379392731b52eef22b4936637eb592b93e04318, the following change was introduced: modified gnu/system/vm.scm @@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ with '-virtfs' options for the host file systems listed in SHARED-FS." '()) "-no-reboot" + "-nic" "user,model=virtio-net-p

bug#42252: Not possible to reliably port forward with "guix system vm" anymore

2020-07-07 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > guix system vm config.scm --hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 --hostfwd=tcp::-:80 > > kind of ugly, but it could work. WDYT? Kind of uglier, but more versatile: guix system vm config.scm --nic=user,model=virtio-net-pci,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22,hostfwd=tcp::-:

bug#42252: Not possible to reliably port forward with "guix system vm" anymore

2020-07-07 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > >> guix system vm config.scm --hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 --hostfwd=tcp::-:80 >> >> kind of ugly, but it could work. WDYT? > > Kind of uglier, but more versatile: > > guix system vm config.scm > --nic=user,model=virtio-n

bug#42253: libreoffice: LibreOffice Help Not Available

2020-07-07 Thread Christopher Howard
Selecting Help Menu >> LibreOffice Help gives error message "built in help for current UI language (English (USA)) is not installed on your computer", and then redirects user to the libreoffice Web site. christopher@theoden ~$ guix describe Generation 1Jul 03 2020 01:41:35(current) guix

bug#42259: emacs-ess 18.10.2 sets R_HOME to a ridiculous value by default

2020-07-07 Thread Kyle Andrews
I have been noticing many warnings coming from R in several contexts saying: WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME See for example the output of running: $ R --version This warning appears to be coming from line 69 of ess-r-gui.el where an unset environment variable R_HOME is bein