Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:28:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > this is the xorriso run for producing a layout like "isohybrid --uefi" > with GRUB equipment for BIOS instead of ISOLINUX. > No, it still gets stuck. :( > Expected inspection result: > The GPT partition GUID is differe

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 03:50:59PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > the Guix USB drive > > merely does not show up (for Debian, it shows up as an EFI partition > > in the boot menu). > > So probably it is not run. > Boot gets stuck on x86_64 Guix images only, but the one i686 I tried did not sho

Re: One-shot Shepherd services

2019-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
zna...@disroot.org skribis: > Is there possibility to define dependencies? F.e. networking will depend on > my on-eshot service? Yes, this remains unchanged. > Also what is service 'networking' really is, and can I use wpa-supplicant + > dhcp-client without meta-service networking? On Guix Sy

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > this is the xorriso run for producing a layout like "isohybrid --uefi" Florian Pelz wrote: > No, it still gets stuck. :( Then it must be something inside the EFI partition which makes the Macbook firmware dismiss the partition for booting. > The GPT partition GUID is different

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 11:01:51AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > this is the xorriso run for producing a layout like "isohybrid --uefi" > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > No, it still gets stuck. :( > > Then it must be something inside the EFI partition which makes the > Macbook

New Chinese (simplified) PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.0.0-pre1)

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Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > For x86_64 iso images, the Macbook does *not dismiss*. It gets stuck > in the lightgray startup screen forever without showing a menu with > the drives to boot from, except for the Debian ISO image, for which a > menu is shown with an »EFI partition« that runs a bootload

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 11:01:51AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Florian Pelz wrote: > > I could try burning a DVD and attempt to boot from it. > > On DVD the El Torito boot equipment should lead EFI to the same partition > image as the partition table should do on USB stick. > But a try cannot h

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-19 Thread Tobias Platen
Am 18.04.2019 um 04:44 schrieb 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

Re: Video narration

2019-04-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: >> 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 file is corrupt' > > Ricardo and I encountered that problem before… but I don’t remember ho

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:47:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > The resolution is slightly too small to read all text boxes in the > > installer’s disk partitioning dialog though. The

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:05:39AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I dug out a PS/2 keyboard which works. When adding > modprobe.blacklist=radeon then GDM does not start. > /var/log/gdm/greeter.log contains beside various expected errors for > fbdev: > > (EE) open /dev/fb0: Permission

Re: [PySide] Packaging for guix

2019-04-19 Thread John Soo
Hi Cristián, Thank you! I have been following the cmake path and it seems to be working better than before. If I find more issues, I will ask. Thanks again! - John On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:47 AM Cristián Maureira-Fredes < cristian.maureira-fre...@qt.io> wrote: > Hello John, > > I'm not famili

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:58:58PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The youngest without "Secure" in its bootx64.efi is > debian-7.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso > > You could check whether this hangs like Guix. > No, it does not hang, it is bootable. > SHA512: > > 5cb6e4fea55fbb5173f90c3a545b843c6c

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Tobias Platen writes: > Am 18.04.2019 um 04:44 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday: > I know it runs on a Macbook 7,1 and I think I am running it on a Macbook 4,1 now. I have had problems in both laptops with my mouse only moving up and down in 3 out of 4 boots, but now I've switched to sway with no gr

Re: User Services

2019-04-19 Thread Joshua Branson
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Fantastic! > > This was one of the missing features for user services (e.g. a > "sync-my-data" service that users would invoke manually). Can you describe user services a little more for me? It would be nice to have the shepherd auto start my emacs... Then I could co

Re: User Services

2019-04-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Joshua Branson writes: > Can you describe user services a little more for me? It would be nice > to have the shepherd auto start my emacs... Then I could connect via > emacsclient. What's the status on that? Some patches have been sent, but there is quite some work to be done, especially rega

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:47:04PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: >> > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > The resolution is slightly too small to read all text boxes in

Re: Should we upgrade openssl?

2019-04-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 02:28:13PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Merging ‘core-updates’ is no longer an option for 1.0: I’m seriously > still aiming for around April 30th. Let’s get our act together! > > Likewise, I don’t think the OpenSSL upgrade can be merged on time. But > that’s OK: we can

Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 05:17:31PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > OK, so that’s suboptimal, but do you still consider it usable > nonetheless? > Yes, the installer is usable. Its just when using Manual partitioning that the message You can change a disk's partition table by \ selecting it and

Re: Guix on Purism's Librems?

2019-04-19 Thread Matt Newport
Purism mostly disables the Intel ME, at least in theory: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-librem-laptops-completely-disable-intel-management-engine/ https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/ Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, April 19, 2019 4:59 AM, Tobias Platen

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
What is this --hfs-bless option of mkisofs? This is not related by any chance? Regards, Florian

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > The DVD works and is bootable. :) Hrmpf. I hate it when success spoils a theory. I wrote: > > The youngest without "Secure" in its bootx64.efi is > > debian-7.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso > No, it does not hang, it is bootable. It is about time for black candles and the t

Re: Introducing myself

2019-04-19 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Le 04/18, John Soo a écrit : > I just realized you said you wanted an fzf replacement. I recommend fzy. It’s > not quite as full featured as fzf but it gets the job done. Thanks for the link! So many tools out there… But, actually, what I said was "I want to package fzf for Guix". :-) Fzf has a