bug#48868: VLC cant find libvdpau_radeonsi.so when playing video

The file exists at /gnu/store/mwcgqw9ggi02p8mhzac8cg0x671j7wd1-mesa-20.2.4/lib/vdpau/libvdpau_radeonsi.so but it doesn't seem to be found (by libva?). Videos still play. Probably requires a Radeon card to reproduce. I got confused trying to figure out where exactly its loaded. libva info: VA-API

bug#48872: Guix services: ‘chmod’ leaves opportunity to leak secrets

[ This was reported on the Nixpkgs bug tracker a few weeks ago ] When doing something like (call-with-output-file FILE (lambda (port) (display SECRET port))) (chmod FILE #o400) an unpriviliged user could open FILE before FILE ha

bug#44872: Installer crash: 'uuid->string' is passed #f in lieu of a UUID

Hi Guix! I also just hit this issue while using the graphical installer on a machine that previously had Guix installed on it via the shell-driven manual installation flow. I'm working on a video to show how to install Guix using the graphical installer so it's a big blocker for me hit this seemi

bug#48771: Gnutls fails to build on i586-pc (hurd)

Hi, Eric Brown skribis: > A recent update to gnutls seems to have broken hurd's gnutls. (I can > see this because I run childhurd) Fixed in 4604d43c0e438107d834fb68ea46130bbfc5ec9f. Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#48739: QEMU SSH hostfwd example from manual doesn't work anymore

Maxim Cournoyer writes: > > Thanks a lot for sharing this; I tried your above snippet with the > Debian Hurd img file, and it worked! Out of curiosity, how do you use > Spice with the above? It'd need a Spice-enabled viewer such as > virt-manager right? How do you point virt-manager to the VM