GDM status (again)

2017-10-27 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Guix, Two months ago, Andy Wingo did a bunch of work on getting GDM working as a display manager for Guix [1]. Unfortunately, Andy had to step away from the task before getting everything working. I’ve been looking at this a bit, and have made some progress. Currently, GDM starts, lists users,

Re: NFS mounts

2017-10-27 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Could you test it in a VM, pass “console=ttyS0” as a kernel argument, > and “-serial stdio” so that we see all the messages on the console? It took a while, but here it is. My config.scm is attached as well. Konrad. config.scm Description: Binary data guixsd-console.log Descripti

Re: speed of qemu vms

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.10.2017 um 09:43 schrieb Chris Marusich: > Does the qemu process have access to kvm? … If you don't have access, maybe > KVM > isn't being used. Yes, the qemu-process is started with my user and my user is member of group kvm, which has read-write-access to /dev/kvm. Additionally my user

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 05:48:20PM -0700, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > How about an extension of “guix pack” that will rewrite the /gnu/store > > references to a user-provided directory before bundling things up in a > > tarball? > > I’ve thought about this (we

Re: Tiny Guix (and containers)

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hello, Am 26.10.2017 um 12:42 schrieb Pjotr Prins: > Yes, I think that is what we should head for eventually. I vaguely > remember a discussion about this on this ML and people were against > separate outputs for doc, include, static-lib etc. What are you all > thinking now? Does it make sense to

Re: Hacks to install Guix packages without root

2017-10-27 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:46:52PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi, > > this blog post contains many great examples of how to deploy Guix > applications without root access: > > > http://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/ > > I think that all of these m

Re: Guix on macOS

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.10.2017 um 06:11 schrieb Chris Marusich: > * Nix's Darwin bootstrap tools are maintained in Nix, but they aren't > cross-compiled (e.g., from x86_64-linux). They're built from a > previous generation of the stdenv for Darwin. I suspect, but do not > know for sure, that originally the

Re: bug#26339: closing bootloader serie.

2017-10-27 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
> Does that make sense? Yes, it is now much clearer, thank you ! My qemu virtualized ARM machine has been compiling for a week now (is it normal to have so few substitutes btw ?) and is not over yet. So, I'm really interested by the --target on guix system. Do you happend to have a draft of you

Re: speed of qemu vms

2017-10-27 Thread Chris Marusich
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 27.10.2017 um 02:22 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> It could be that, but given the figures you give, are you sure KVM is >> enabled on your system, Hartmut? Does /dev/kvm exist? > > Yes, /dev/kvm exists. Anything else to check? > > crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Okt 20 0

Re: speed of qemu vms

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 25.10.2017 um 08:28 schrieb Christopher Baines: > I'm guessing that the issue with the first variant is the same that I > was coming up against here [1]. > > 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-08/msg00064.html Maybe – I did not find time yet to measure it. As suggested in tha

Fwd: Serious regression in Qt 5.9.2

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hello Guix, this note arrived on the KDE distributions mailinglist (which I temporry subscribed). Important for who ever will update Qt to 5.9.2: Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff:Serious regression in Qt 5.9.2 Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:28:52 +0200 Von:Marco Marti

Re: speed of qemu vms

2017-10-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.10.2017 um 02:22 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > It could be that, but given the figures you give, are you sure KVM is > enabled on your system, Hartmut? Does /dev/kvm exist? Yes, /dev/kvm exists. Anything else to check? crw-rw-rw-+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Okt 20 00:29 /dev/kvm -- Regards Hartmut