Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, meanwhile i learned that "i686" means 32 bit. So i downloaded guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-linux.iso and see indeed the boot program for 64 bit x86 in the EFI partition: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132608 Dec 5 16:59 /mnt/fat/efi/boot/bootx64.efi >From Florian's reports i cannot tell which

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > my Macbook still does not like it. The content of the EFI partition of guixsd-install-0.15.0.i686-linux.iso does not look like it is ready for 64-bit x86: $ mount guixsd-install-0.15.0.i686-linux.iso /mnt/iso $ mount /mnt/iso/efi.img /mnt/fat $ find /mnt/fat -exec

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

2019-04-17 Thread Björn Höfling
Patch sent out as: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35312 Björn pgpp9BbPQxABd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-17 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Hey all, I brought this up in IRC tonight, and I thought I'd cast a net on the mailing list to collect experiences. I am considering purchasing a Librem laptop, and I was curious how Guix runs on it. Would anyone who has these laptops (especially if you have a version with the TPM and head) care t

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 05:51:41PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > here are instructions to repack a Guix ISO with EFI support (via GPT) > to an ISO with MBR-only partition table. > Thank you! However, even though Linux is happy about the repacked ISO, my Macbook still does not like it.

Re: Video narration

2019-04-17 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Laura, > Can you tell me which players work for you? I tried with my browser > and it still tells me that the file is corrupt :/ I have tested Parole and Videos media players and Firefox and Midori browsers. All work except Firefox, which gives the message: 'Video can't be played because the

Re: Introducting myself

2019-04-17 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Le 04/16, Chris Marusich a écrit : > Welcome! Thanks! > It's great to hear about your experience so far with Guix System I haven't done much so far! But after a week, it's still my main OS at home, and that's already a good thing! I'm planning to play a bit with the OS config system, for insta

Re: [gnu-soc] [IMPORTANT] slot requests

2019-04-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Giuseppe Scrivano ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 10., Sze, 10:22): > > Hi everyone, > > we need to request the number of slots we would like to receive. > Project: GNU Guix DesiredSlots: 1 EssentialSlots: 1 > > Thanks, > Giuseppe > Thanks for coordinating this. Best regards, g_bor

Re: Video narration

2019-04-17 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Paul! Sorry fot the delay. > I have been able to match the aspect ratio of the cli videos to the > nocli videos. With ffmpeg there is a filtergraph that can be added to > pad the images. The result is a smooth transition between the two > types. There is no longer flickering or crashing in t

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > If that’s the best option we have so far, we can do this: > The patch works fine, but: The resolution is slightly too small to read all text boxes in the installer’s disk partitioning dialog though. The screen height is only abo

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, here are instructions to repack a Guix ISO with EFI support (via GPT) to an ISO with MBR-only partition table. Tested with guixsd-install-0.15.0.i686-linux.iso, because my copy of 0.16.0 is one of the victims of bug#33639. It becomes 130 MiB larger than the original, probably because there w

Re: TeX Live

2019-04-17 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > For the specific usability issue you mention (what’s the right package > to install when one wants tables?), I think we should add a section in > the manual, as has been discussed before. No package, this is default LaTeX. Because of that, most documentation depending

TeX Live

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > About 1.0 release date set to April the 30th, I can think of one big > obstacle still in the way: texlive. Currently I cannot compile a > standard LaTeX document with a table (can anyone reproduce?). > > The big TeXlive revamp is on its way on the "wip-tex

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 02:24:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:55:10PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > >> On the 2011 Macbook I am using, the boot process gets stuck before I > >> can select the drive to boot fr

Re: Installer update

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > • Proper translations of timezones and XKB keyboard layout names. As > commented in commit 7cb7be17af77caa084c1b5ebf20748dd04f208fa, we > don’t really have timezone translations, but I’m pretty sure Debian > has something for these! Turns out xkeyboard-c

Re: Improve `guix pull --commit=` behaviour when with channels

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, pkill9 skribis: > When extra channels have been added, running `guix pull > --commit=` returns "guix pull: error: '--url', '--commit', and > '--branch' are not applicable". I think it would be better if these > flags only affected the "guix" channel, including when extra channels > have b

[WIP] Lightdm service

2019-04-17 Thread L p R n d n
Hello, I'm trying to write a service for lightdm but I'm currently stuck but maybe some of you might have a clue. FYI, relevant patches can be found here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35305 The problem is that the service is unable to start a session. After login, lightdm just

Re: Should we upgrade openssl?

2019-04-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 17., Sze 14:28): > Hi Gábor, > > Gábor Boskovits skribis: > > > I would go for the upgrade. As this is a change affecting lots of > packages, > > and this upgrade would allow us to reduce the chances to stuck with a > > vulnerable version. I

Re: Should we upgrade openssl?

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > I would go for the upgrade. As this is a change affecting lots of packages, > and this upgrade would allow us to reduce the chances to stuck with a > vulnerable version. I also suppose, that there areg- some changes on > core-updates we would like to merge an

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:55:10PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> On the 2011 Macbook I am using, the boot process gets stuck before I >> can select the drive to boot from, as long as a USB flash drive with >> this GPT error is in a USB port.

New German PO file for 'guix' (version 1.0.0-pre1)

2019-04-17 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix' has been submitted by the German team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix/de.po (We can arrange things so that in the

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:23:56PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > This operation has killed the MBR partition table with the entry for > the EFI partition. > […] > Did you try booting before or after the gdisk run ? > > Before. I also did not write out. Note that I also called gdisk on the iso

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > $ gdisk Downloads/debian-live-9.8.0-amd64-xfce.iso > ... > Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? > 1 - MBR > 2 - GPT > ... > Your answer: 2 > Using GPT and creating fresh protective MBR. > Warning! Main partition table overlaps the first partition by 64 block

Installer update

2019-04-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I made changes to the installer so it’s almost ready as far as I’m concerned. It now displays language and territory names in the right language. If you give it a try, you can select “français” as the language and check whether Julien did a good job. ;-) Other languages are still mi

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-17 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
The Parabola ISO parabola-systemd-cli-i686-netinstall-2018.06.02.iso does not inhibit the boot process but also contains no EFI partition so I cannot boot from it. Debian 9.8.0 works, see the end of this mail. On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:15:56PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrot