bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-21 Thread Florian Pelz
which I will investigate further with debug output for gnome-session at a later time. On Sun, 2017-03-19 at 17:02 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > > Does > > > > guix package -i xf86-video-intel > > > >

bug#26201: No notification of cache misses when downloading substitutes

2017-03-21 Thread Florian Pelz
On Mon, 2017-03-20 at 21:48 -0700, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: > Another option would be to have the mirrors automatically cache the > files as soon as they are available to try. I'd hope this would be how > things are handled already, but one never knows. > If it cached everything, it wouldn’t be

bug#65572: [PATCH v2] doc: Describe black screen issue when booting the installer.

2023-08-31 Thread Florian Pelz
With suggestions by Iku-Tulo Vilutar . Fixes . * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Add suggestion when booting the installer fails with a black screen. --- Improved wording: * added "after waiting for two minutes" doc/guix.texi | 10 ++ 1 file change

bug#65572: [PATCH v3] doc: Describe black screen issue when booting the installer.

2023-09-01 Thread Florian Pelz
With suggestions by Iku-Tulo Vilutar . Fixes . * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Add suggestion when booting the installer fails with a black screen. --- changes: - tell users to wait 10 minutes, not 2 - don't suggest video=uvesafb which is without effect

bug#25258: Bashisms when building 0.11.0

2016-12-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
s and either not use bashisms in its test suite or make sure the test suite is executed explicitly with Bash and not /bin/sh. Regards, Florian Pelz [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash#Use_DASH_as_.2Fbin.2Fsh [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guix/ diff -aur guix-0.11.0.pristin

bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull

2017-02-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 02/18/2017 12:11 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > I am seeing the same on a fresh checkout and build: > > penguin2:~/genenetwork/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -p > $HOME/opt/guix-build-system --install autoconf > warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument > Backtrace: > In guix/packages.s

bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull

2017-02-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
A full uninstall and reinstall as described on the Arch wiki solved the issue for me; `guix pull` and everything works again. systemctl had reported the daemon to be running; I still have no idea what happened. Some network thing? No idea.

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Does guix package -i xf86-video-intel or guix package -i xf86-video-nouveau help (or whatever else your GPU is from `guix package -s xf86-video-`)? Regards, Florian

bug#26170: documentation: Explanation of propagated-inputs unclear

2017-03-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, I presume the difference between a package’s `inputs` and `propagated-inputs` in Guix packages is that propagated inputs get installed to a Guix profile whenever the package is installed while inputs are dependencies that remain in the Store. I presume libraries the packaged program is link

bug#26215: gschemas.compiled should not be added to the profile by multiple packages

2017-03-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Currently multiple packages contain the file share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled (which is built by glib-or-gtk-build-system). Doing so *works* (because each package’s share directory in the Store is part of the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable, GSettings looks for settings in each of the gs

bug#26215: gschemas.compiled should not be added to the profile by multiple packages

2017-03-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 03/23/2017 05:20 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > Note that if you mix GTK-2 and GTK-3 schemas many applications will > crash. The glib-or-gtk-build-system tries to avoid mixing the two. > > Fede > I believe you are confusing schemas and modules. GSettings schemas come from GLib and both GTK+ 2 a

bug#27231: regression?: grub-configuration for grub-efi does not return a bootloader-configuration

2017-06-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
type luks-device-mapping (file-systems (cons*(file-system (device "my-root") (title 'label) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4")

bug#27231: regression?: grub-configuration for grub-efi does not return a bootloader-configuration

2017-06-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 04:38:11PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > This is a limitation of 'grub-configuration' macro: that backtrace > happened because you have 'grub' field *not* in the first place of your > 'grub-configuration'. > > […] > > Note that this will work if you put (grub grub-efi) in the fi

bug#27264: gnome-shell-3.24.2 consistently dies during initialization

2017-06-07 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 05:58:07PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I have a question: Does GNOME 3 work for *anyone* in Guix now? If so, > that would be useful information. If not, I wonder why this got merged > into master. > > Mark > It does not work for me. I get the same error. I'm usi

bug#27264: gnome-shell-3.24.2 consistently dies during initialization

2017-06-08 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:01:22PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think many of us use GTK+/GNOME applications, but fewer use GNOME, so > I suppose we just didn’t test a full GNOME setup. > > Next time we should probably do that or, even better, have an automated > test that logs in, takes a sc

bug#27231: regression?: grub-configuration for grub-efi does not return a bootloader-configuration

2017-06-09 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 04:25:13PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 04:38:11PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > > This is a limitation of 'grub-configuration' macro: that backtrace > > happened because you have 'grub' field *not* i

bug#26006: New web site is on line!

2017-12-07 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Nice website! On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:10:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Please report: > > • broken links; > > • other pages that need a redirect; > > • information that disappeared—I’m thinking in particular of talks, > which used to appear under /help, but are now supposed

bug#26006: New web site is on line!

2017-12-08 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 01:42:27PM -0500, Quiliro Ordonez Baca wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > > > > I believe there is a typo on the home page below the video. „leave“ > > should be „live“: > > > > diff --git a/website/apps/base/

bug#31714: Cannot use usb-storage initrd module.

2018-06-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
My laptop broke and now I use my formerly internal hard disk as an external hard disk in another laptop. It booted fine but I could not reconfigure maybe because Guix checks for a wrong spelling of the usb-storage module. When I pulled 1458f768c1049812166228b8526128b199518e50 and reconfigured I

bug#33171: TMPDIR and build containers

2018-10-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, The manual says that TMPDIR does not leak into the build environment: >You can influence the directory where the daemon stores build trees > via the ‘TMPDIR’ environment variable. However, the build tree within > the chroot is always called ‘/tmp/guix-build-NAME.drv-0’, where NAME is

bug#26170: Bug #26170 Hunting: doc: Explanation of propagated-inputs unclear

2020-09-09 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
ume it is also needed at run time and > not just). I was mistaken about 3). I am glad Ricardo Wurmus packaged Evolution. Apparently I was wrong and evolution does not need evolution-data-server as a propagated-input. Regards, Florian >From fd4955cd0a61e92c37a371e4c5411a505ad5ac76 Mon Sep 17 0

bug#26170: Bug #26170 Hunting: doc: Explanation of propagated-inputs unclear

2020-09-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 12:37:20PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > Another example where @code{propagated-inputs} is useful is for languages > > that lack a facility to record the run-time search path akin to the > > @c

bug#26170: Bug #26170 Hunting: doc: Explanation of propagated-inputs unclear

2020-09-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Thank you both! Pushed as 125fc37e5f32afdbd1e5fca119c9eb41e7ad8ec1. Closing. Regards, Florian

bug#43746: What to do about packages that don't support --without-tests / #:tests? #f setting

2020-10-01 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
ively, it should be documented to write a check phase that honors #:tests?. Or the package transformation should be changed to remove any check phase it finds. Regards, Florian>From b55e6ee01fe674b282e7ec75d0e4c8a839262261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:35:

bug#43746: What to do about packages that don't support --without-tests / #:tests? #f setting

2020-10-02 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
1dd2b8754c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2020 00:29:56 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [PATCH] gnu: glib: Adhere to '--without-tests' option. * gnu/packages/glib.scm (glib)[arguments]<#:phases>[

bug#43746: What to do about packages that don't support --without-tests / #:tests? #f setting

2020-10-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 12:04:37PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I verified the attached patch fixes glib on the ‘master’ branch. > If you tested it on ‘master’, you can push it on ‘core-updates’. Pushed as 0585a0d0d1fe6e334d36e2d851b42b47d6769546. Thank you! Closing, since the issue is docu

bug#43796: Privacy policy

2020-10-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
-13-gdpr/>. In general I think it is better to have an incomplete policy than to have none. Comments? Regards, Florian >From 080df2de1f1f99fce3d7dffcce57f723fd266e17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 17:10:13 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-

bug#43796: Privacy policy

2020-10-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
4697cf175dee3a76397d0f4ecff902cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 11:08:34 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [PATCH] website: Add privacy policy. * website/apps/base/templates/privacy.scm: New file with web pag

bug#43796: (no subject)

2020-10-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:09:20AM +0200, Tomás Ortín Fernández via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > As I understand it, the Guix distribution is *not* a service but a > piece of software. Neither the Guix community nor the GNU project > have any responsibility over the third-party services you d

bug#43796: (no subject)

2020-10-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:09:20AM +0200, Tomás Ortín Fernández via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > I understand that the point of mentioning all that is more as an > advice than a policy. Wouldn't it be more useful in a section about > privacy recommendations (or something similar) that in the

bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation

2020-10-31 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 02:22:58PM +0100, soheilkhanalipur--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Guix has some incompatibilities like (issues.guix.gnu.org/43985) with my > computer. > What are these? what's the solution? Your issues are post-install, I think, so the installer worked properly,

bug#44301: Black screen in Guix System installation

2020-10-31 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I do not know if you deliberately did not reply to all. I hope you do not mind me quoting you. On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 04:16:11PM -0400, Douglas Linford wrote: > Is recompiling the kernel to include radeon an option? > Meaning, can I recompile the kernel myself? > > Douglas Guix will not provid

bug#44455: [ARTWORK] website: Not enough context for translation of None

2020-11-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 06:51:20PM +0100, Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas wrote: > Feel free to push these three together with the one for > German when you have it ready. Pushed as fc8ec5409bd3d7221afc2f9feaac4ce36d5c1192 and following. Thank you for doing the work and thinking it through! Regards, Fl

bug#44650: Do not suggest `guix pull --news' after first pull

2020-11-14 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
f82da5f1da0ed2b6f0c0602599e5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Pelz Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:36:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pull: Do not suggest running `guix pull --news' on the first run. * guix/scripts/pull.scm (display-channel-news-headlines): If there are no news to display, retur

bug#44650: Do not suggest `guix pull --news' after first pull

2020-11-15 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 02:56:30AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > - (when previous > + (if previous > (let ((old-channels (profile-channels previous)) >(new-channels (profile-channels profile))) >;; Find the channels present in both PROFILE an

bug#44650: Do not suggest `guix pull --news' after first pull

2020-11-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:35:08PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Perfect, you can push to ‘version-1.2.0’, thank you! > > Ludo’. Thank you. Pushed as 29ed17d6345d30b0646f0a9b63ab201e0e6871ec. Done. Regards, Florian

bug#22952: Backlight brightness keys in GDM and MATE require password authentication

2020-11-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I’m reopening this bug because it is very similar to my issue. When using my Macbook’s keyboard XF86MonBrightnessUp/Down keys to adjust screen brightness (probably on non-Macbooks too) in GDM or MATE, I am asked to enter my authentication password to make gnome-settings-daemon’s libexec/gsd-backli

bug#22952: Backlight brightness keys in GDM and MATE require password authentication

2020-11-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:14:32PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > To work around it locally, try adding: > > (simple-service 'gsd-polkit polkit-service-type > (list gnome-settings-daemon)) > > to the (services ...) section of your system configuration. Thank you. You are corre

bug#44773: guix pull does not support transformation options but claims to

2020-11-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Running `guix pull --help-transform' displays all the usual transformation options, but when I try to use any, it reports an unrecognized option. It would be nice if I could use `guix pull --without-tests=glib' since tests time out on my (somewhat slow) Beaglebone Black. Regards, Florian

bug#44773: guix pull does not support transformation options but claims to

2020-11-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:09:49AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > It would be nice if I could use `guix pull --without-tests=glib' since > tests time out on my (somewhat slow) Beaglebone Black. P.S. --without-tests=glib does not work for 1.2.0 anyway though because glib was

bug#44773: guix pull does not support transformation options but claims to

2020-11-21 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 12:43:29PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > > Running `guix pull --help-transform' displays all the usual > > transformation options, but when I try to use any, it reports an >

bug#26215: gschemas.compiled should not be added to the profile by multiple packages

2020-12-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Leo! Thank you for going through old issues! So the issue appears to be fixed by commit de136f3ee7878dea139e751b7e4ca04c2542c91d (from year 2018) making sure a gschemas.compiled encompassing all packages in a Guix profile gets created. Reverting that commit does not print warnings today (I

bug#34893: Translated manuals refer to wrong substitute server

2021-01-12 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 03:21:14PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Le Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:53:56 +0100, > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" a écrit : > > Where the manual refers to the default substitute server > > https://ci.guix.info, the translated manuals wrongly use &g

bug#46663: [Website] 404 redirection on a link in a blog article

2021-02-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 02:25:03PM +0100, Epholys wrote: > Hello, > > I want to report a missing resource on the web page: > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ > > > The link [full graph] redirects to a 404: > https://guix.gnu.org/en/static/blog/img/gcc-

bug#46663: [Website] 404 redirection on a link in a blog article

2021-02-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 08:20:43PM +0100, raingloom wrote: > Is there something that scans the website for broken links? Might be > worth setting up if not. You made me check for other broken links using wget on a local build of the website. Indeed there were some more broken links. Thanks! How

bug#46807: [website] return 404 with HTTP header 'Accept-Language: zh-CN, zh'

2021-03-01 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 11:06:59AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Florian, could it be that we’re not normalizing language tags > appropriately? Does that ring a bell? Tobias’ analysis likely is correct. I haven’t yet build a current berlin virtual machine to test though. We’re not nor

bug#46807: [website] return 404 with HTTP header 'Accept-Language: zh-CN, zh'

2021-03-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 01:31:40PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > I expect that adding it and changing ietf-tags.scm to use "zh-CN" will fix > both 404s, but need to check that it doesn't break anything else. I made the tiny change to guix-artwork’s ietf-tags.s

bug#46807: [website] return 404 with HTTP header 'Accept-Language: zh-CN, zh'

2021-03-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
FlorianFrom: Florian Pelz Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 20:29:27 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [PATCH] nginx: berlin: Normalize Accept-Language language code zh to zh-CN. Now web browsers requesting any kind of Chinese get the website in mainland

bug#46807: [website] return 404 with HTTP header 'Accept-Language: zh-CN, zh'

2021-03-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Pushed to maintenance.git as 82b075685b6089c7f98acb0993c003936d833776. Closing. Thank you all!

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:40:55PM -0500, jcguu95 wrote: >2.2. Unexpected failure > >After running `guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt' for 5 to 10 >minutes, I got the error > >, >|substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... > 0.0%guix su

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:38:56AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I needed to restart the installer at the last step, this stopped while > downloading enlightenment with no error but it does not continue. Note: The last message was enlightenment-0.24.2 2

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:44:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > But now after maybe 10 minutes it finally continued and died with the > same TLS error about write_to_session_record_port and Resource not > available. The error happened while substitute: updating substitutes from […]

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:48:47AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:44:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > But now after maybe 10 minutes it finally continued and died with the > > same TLS error about write_to_session_record_port a

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 12:15:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Was this in a VM? No, an Asrock Beebox (real x86_64 hardware). > Could it be that networking was unstable (e.g., you > were running this over a flaky WiFi connection)? It is a stable Ethernet connection. > How reproducible is

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 01:33:37PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > (well with an unrelated error by > grub-install that it could not determine the canonical path of > /boot/efi). Probably > I will try reproducing, but Jin and me both had this > error. I got the e

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 02:10:06PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On IRC Ricardo/rekado suspected > c7c7f068c15e419aaf5ef616516aa5ad4e55c2fa, I will try reverting it. It was necessary to revert follow-up commits before reverting c7c7f068c15e419aaf5ef616516aa5ad4e55c2fa. I tr

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:05:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I dd’d the resulting image to a USB drive and the TLS errors no longer > appear (tried installing everything two times now; without reverts > downloading enlightenment needed retrys everytime). > […] I suspec

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
When installing from the Guix install image, grub-install fails on my x86_64 ASRock Beebox PC: guix system: error: '/gnu/store/hsc3gsqbxkl64nx38sf2fgs2fxzbpr0i-grub-efi-2.04/sbin/grub-install --boot-directory /mnt/boot --bootloader-id=Guix --efi-directory /boot/efi' exited with status 1; output

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:29:54AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > When installing from the Guix install image, grub-install fails on my > x86_64 ASRock Beebox PC: This error occurred on multiple install attempts, but apparently the last one broke my UEFI; the Beebox can no

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:05:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I will bisect which reverts are needed, but it takes time … My UEFI broke; the PC cannot display anything anymore. Don’t wait for my debugging.

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:27:39PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:29:54AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > When installing from the Guix install image, grub-install fails on my > > x86_64 ASRock Beebox PC: > > Can you be specific about wh

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
After flashing the CMOS I can test again. Without reverts TLS errors happen while or after downloading the enlightenment substitute from the installer. With all of those reverts *no* TLS errors happen: On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:05:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > git rev

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:21:13AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > git revert be5a75ebb5988b87b2392e2113f6590f353dd6cd It seems this is the bad commit. Downloading the enlightenment substitute got stuck and after a few minutes displayed the usual TLS error. Regards, Florian

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 05:27:54PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:21:13AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > > git revert be5a75ebb5988b87b2392e2113f6590f353dd6cd > > It seems this is the bad commit. Downloading the enlightenmen

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-20 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 02:00:54PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 07:03:26PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 05:27:54PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > > It seems this is the bad commit. Downloading

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-21 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Sorry for the slow response. On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:38:58AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Florian, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:21:13AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > >> > git revert be5a75ebb5

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > There’s no EFI (vfat) partition here. Is it an EFI machine? > > Is /boot/efi mounted when you boot the installation image? No because there is no EFI partition. If I create one and restart the installer, then it is *not* mounted

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The installer determines whether it’s doing a UEFI installation like so: > > (define (efi-installation?) > "Return #t if an EFI installation should be performed, #f otherwise." > (file-exists? "/sys/firmware/efi")) > > I

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Success! Thank you. 65;6003;1c On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:19:28AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Florian, could you try again with the attached patch? It succeeds on two full installs of Enlightenment, no errors, no prolonged getting stuck. > If you have the courage, it would be awesome if you

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Bengt, On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 05:24:26AM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > How does that work if you want to mount an external USB disk as the target > of your installation partitioning and formatting etc, but which may be > intended > for another laptop with a different BIOS booting in a diff

bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

2021-04-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 07:13:01PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’ve pushed these as two separate patches: > > c50db7156d http-client: Remove exception mishandling in 'http-multiple-get'. > 02d62978f4 http-client, substitute: Gracefully handle GnuTLS EAGAIN/EINTR. I assume they will be che

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-25 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 04:15:56PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Finally, grub-efi fails because there's no /boot/efi mount point. > > This problem can then occur for two reasons: > > 1. The user is booting the installation image with UEFI support, using > an empty installation device, choos

bug#47889: [installer image] grub-install efi fails getting canonical path to /boot/efi on dos-formatted disk

2021-04-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 07:12:39PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello Florian, > > > Can you force GPT also in 2.? All disk partitions get removed anyway. > > Arch wiki says MSDOS layout does not work on all EFI systems > >

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 11:41:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: 65;6003;1c> I’ve verified that keymap choices in the installer are honored, that you > can change anytime via the F1 menu, and that there’s no file descriptor > leak in the kmscon process. Keyboard layout selection completely broke

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-26 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 06:07:33PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 11:41:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 65;6003;1c> I’ve verified that keymap choices in the installer are h

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-27 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:38:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > What do you mean by “fails on real hardware”? That the keyboard layout > is unchanged? Yes. > Is there anything in /var/log/messages No, nothing out of the ordinary, only the installer pages I went through. > or wherever kmsco

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-27 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Bengt, On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 07:43:56PM +0200, Bengt Richter wrote: > Perhaps this old bug in some form? > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776570 > and solution linked from there might help? > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68 No, I believe it is unrelated

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-28 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hi Ludo, On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:26:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I tried this in ‘guix system vm gnu/system/install.scm’. I proceed like > so: > > 1. after the installer’s welcome screen I choose French layout; > 2. the next dialog is the host name, which is where I confirm I real

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-28 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 09:02:10AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:26:41PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 165 openat(AT_FDCWD, > > "/gnu/store/qz3zdrz12rxawlkvah9qjhjyf6fh1v98-xkeyboard-config-2.31/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet", &g

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-28 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 03:43:06PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hmm I don’t know what to think. Could you confirm that keyboard > switching works if you revert d904abe0768293b2322dbf355b6e41d94e769d78? Yes, revert fixes it but goes back to 100% CPU usage. Note that layout switching works on Q

bug#39341: Installer using 100% of a CPU core

2021-04-29 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:33:17AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Conveniently, that input was always the main user keyboard I guess. The > attached patch fixes that issue […] Aha! Thank you. This patch fixed it on my Beebox PC. Note that my Beebox only ever had a single input device: a USB k

bug#39970: guix commands broken on Azerbaijani 'az_AZ' and Turkish 'tr_TR' locales

2021-05-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:47:02AM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Closing. > > Thank you, > > Maxim Sorry for forgetting about this bug. The above LC_ALL=tr_TR.utf8 make check TESTS=tests/cran.scm is *not* fixed, but I won’t take the time to really understand and fix the few remaining troubl

bug#48343: Cannot boot after installation

2021-05-12 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:33:51PM -0400, Bone Baboon via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Sergey Petrov writes: > > but terminal only, my WM (Enlightenment) cannot initialize. I think I > > can give a try to some other WMs and check how it goes. > > You may find this has useful information in r

bug#33678: Locale problems

2018-12-08 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 10:35:51PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Can we do something against the locale problems that keep showing up > when updating? > > Right now, after a half-finished update from guix master (half-finished > because > once any package build breaks, the entire update wil

bug#33892: guix package --list-generations uses UTC and time-at-midnight for hour durations

2018-12-28 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Guix, I would expect guix package --list-generations=…h to display generations from the past … hours, but apparently it displays generations offset from UTC midnight (apparently not local time?) and not the current time, since guix/ui.scm calls a procedure named time-at-midnight. In particu

bug#33894: Guix manual PO file uses same translation msgid ``channels'' for different uses

2018-12-28 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, The Guix manual POT file 0.16.0.1 submitted to the Translation Project has these lines: #. type: item #: doc/guix.texi:2919 doc/guix.texi:3279 #, no-wrap msgid "channels" msgstr "" However, doc/guix.texi:2919 is a cindex which should be translated and doc/guix.texi:3279 is a table item wh

bug#34498: Confusing msgid " Running value is ~s.~%"

2019-02-15 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, I am fairly sure #: modules/shepherd/scripts/herd.scm:86 #, scheme-format msgid " Running value is ~s.~%" refers to the value of the #:running slot but translators don’t know that and would translate it as a value that is running. This should be changed and a comment for TRANSLATORS sho

bug#34574: Confusing manual entry for gexp->file

2019-02-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, The Guix manual contains the following description of gexp->file: -- Monadic Procedure: gexp->file NAME EXP [#:set-load-path? #t] [#:module-path %load-path] [#:splice? #f] [#:guile (default-guile)] Return a derivation that builds a file NAME containing EXP. When SPLI

bug#34574: Confusing manual entry for gexp->file

2019-03-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:17:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Florian, > > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > > The Guix manual contains the following description of gexp->file: > > > > -- Monadic Procedure: gexp->file NAME EXP [#:s

bug#34893: Translated manuals refer to wrong substitute server

2019-03-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Where the manual refers to the default substitute server https://ci.guix.info, the translated manuals wrongly use https://ci.guix.fr.info or similar. This is because at the top of doc/guix.texi it says @set SUBSTITUTE-SERVER ci.guix.info which is wrongly replaced by something like @set SUBSTITU

bug#34955: Manual: Service extensions not clear

2019-03-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
The Guix manual (section Defining services) says about service extensions: [The example guix-service-type definition] defines three things: 1. […] 2. A list of “service extensions”, where each extension designates the target service type and a procedure that, given the parameters of

bug#35136: Git master installer disk-image has GPT PMBR size mismatch

2019-04-03 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Since commit 45c0d1d790f01ebc020fc4b2787a6abcdaa3f383 all install ISOs created with guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm cannot boot for me, see https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-04/msg00061.html fdisk reports this: florian@florianmacbook ~

bug#35136: Git master installer disk-image has GPT PMBR size mismatch

2019-04-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 07:33:17AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm > This only happens when specifying --file-system-type=iso9660.

bug#35136: Git master installer disk-image has GPT PMBR size mismatch

2019-04-04 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I would like to log the commandline with which parted is executed in initialize-partition-table in gnu/build/vm.scm, but I do not know where all the output is going. Apparently it is nowhere in the logs.

bug#35136: Git master installer disk-image has GPT PMBR size mismatch

2019-04-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 07:57:06AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I would like to log the commandline with which parted is executed in > initialize-partition-table in gnu/build/vm.scm, but I do not know > where all the output is going. Apparently it is nowhere in the logs. &g

bug#35136: Git master installer disk-image has GPT PMBR size mismatch

2019-04-06 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
This seems to be a duplicate of https://issues.guix.info/issue/33639 , I think, but it happens to me on x86_64.

bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686

2019-04-07 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I have what may be the same problem on my x86_64 machine building for x86_64 when creating an ISO install image by running guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm Since commit 45c0d1d790f01ebc020fc4b2787a6abcdaa3f383 increased the RAM for the VM that builds the is

bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686

2019-04-09 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 10:50:29AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > "Thomas Schmitt" skribis: > > > The fact that the VM always sees the expected size but the host sees varying > > sizes supports the suspicion that at the end of the VM its i/o buffers or > > virtual disk are not always

bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686

2019-04-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 01:17:14PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Given the smell of a race condition, i would next try to let the VM > wait 10 or 15 seconds after xorriso is finished and before it shuts down. > I added a (sleep 15) after ludo’s (sync). The first image worked but now I got libb

bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686

2019-04-13 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:26:28PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Florian, it would be great if you could confirm. Just apply it on > ‘master’, and then run: > > ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image --file-system-format=iso9660 \ > gnu/system/install.scm > Yes, it seems fixed, I can co

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