Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-11-29 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm > navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's > one thing I found: > > https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186 > > So I probably need to execute this "impor

Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-11-29 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello all, I tried getting GuixSD working on Rackspace Cloud last night. Ludovic suggested I write to the list to talk about my success/failure, regardless of whether I made it or not. My goal is to get GuixSD hosted reliably on *some* commodity hosting platform, whether it's Rackspace or Linode

Re: Problems adding multiple file systems (e.g., /home partition)

2016-11-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Ludo', Thanks! Your suggestion is what I had initially tried, and it would not boot. But now it works: I can boot without the USB drive and reach the login prompt. I must have had something else messed up. In any event, thank you very much for your help! - Daniel On 11/29/2016 07:57 AM

Re: Problems adding multiple file systems (e.g., /home partition)

2016-11-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Ludo', Thanks! Your suggestion is what I had initially tried, and it would not boot. But now it works: I can boot without the USB drive and reach the login prompt. I must have had something else messed up. In any event, thank you very much for your help! - Daniel On 11/29/2016 07:57 AM

Re: Problems adding multiple file systems (e.g., /home partition)

2016-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Daniel Drake skribis: > I've noted the dependencies member of the file-system object: "This > is a list of objects representing file systems that must > be mounted before (and unmounted after) this one." > > In the preamble, I define the root file-system: > > (define vol-root (file-sy

Re: locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Myles English skribis: > on [2016-11-28] at 20:48 Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Myles English skribis: >> >>> I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch >>> Linux (with zsh and a basic window manager, bspwm). I have set >>> GUIX_LOCPATH in ~/.zshenv and it appear