bug#36508: [DRAFT PATCH] Stable allocation of uids, by keeping a historical mapping.

Hi, The attached patch maintains a historical mapping from user names to UIDs/GIDs (even when those users are removed from the user accounts), to solve , as proposed by Mark H Weaver in . (The proposed garbage collector

bug#57878: Minimal reproducible setup

Am Sonntag, dem 18.09.2022 um 01:19 +0200 schrieb Liliana Marie Prikler: > I think you can prevent native-compilation entirely by setting no- > native-compile to t in your early-init.el (I'm playing with the idea > of doing this anyway, because I'm annoyed by the clutter that falls > through the cr

bug#57292: GDM accessibility menu buttons don't do anything

Am Donnerstag, dem 18.08.2022 um 22:11 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > Hello Guix! > > I've just noticed that the accessibility buttons at the top right of > the screen, e.g. "High Contrast" don't stick in the enable position, > and do seem to do anything.  Both in 40.1 and the 42.0 I'm about to

bug#57919: xscreensaver 6.04 "Authentication failed" error with correct password

If I attempt to lock the screen, it locks with "xflock" instead of xscreensaver. If I run "xscreensaver-demo", I get "The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":1.0". Launch it now?" If I click "yes", then xscreensaver starts running when the computer is locked, but I get "Au

bug#57922: Shepherd doesn't seem to correctly handle waitpid itself

Hi, I've tried to determine why a workaround in the jami-service-type is required in the 'stop' slot to avoid failures in 'herd restart jami', and haven't quite found the culprit, but it appears to me that: 1. waipid is only called in one place in Shepherd, which is in the handle-SIGCHLD procedur

bug#57878: Minimal reproducible setup

Liliana Marie Prikler writes: >> I think you can prevent native-compilation entirely by setting no- >> native-compile to t in your early-init.el (I'm playing with the idea >> of doing this anyway, because I'm annoyed by the clutter that falls >> through the cracks). > > Okay, it turns out that di