Shepherd and Guille

2018-10-30 Thread Wayne
ahoy all, i have been researching GuixSD and Guille a bit, hoping to take the plunge soon. the nice community here is definitely a big plus :) i came across the following article https://davmac.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/on-the-vagaries-of-init-systems/ which raises some issues with the

Re: Guixsd 0.15.0 Installation Fail

2018-10-30 Thread Clément Lassieur
mirror.hydra.gnu.org doesn't work well either, see https://bugs.gnu.org/33151. I think your best bet is to only use https://berlin.guixsd.org. Thorsten Wilms writes: > On 30/10/2018 19.27, Anthony Eslick wrote: >> When I run "guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" I get a message that >> in

Re: Guixsd 0.15.0 Installation Fail

2018-10-30 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 30/10/2018 19.27, Anthony Eslick wrote: When I run "guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" I get a message that infinitely scrolls across the screen substitute: guix substitute: warning: while fetching 'https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nix-cache-info': 504 ("Gateway Time-out") substitute: g

Guixsd 0.15.0 Installation Fail

2018-10-30 Thread Anthony Eslick
When I run "guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt" I get a message that infinitely scrolls across the screen substitute: guix substitute: warning: while fetching ' https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/nix-cache-info': 504 ("Gateway Time-out") substitute: guix substitute: warning: ignoring substitute s

Re: Flash Player for Icecat Gnash can not find boost header

2018-10-30 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-10-02 12:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Note that if you’re building Gnash, you may just as well write a package definition for it: it won’t be much harder, and it will benefit everyone. See to get started. See

more informative logging for (shepherd) services

2018-10-30 Thread Florian Dold
Hi Guix, is there a way to obtain more informative logging from services that are started directly or indirectly (by GuixSD service) via shepherd? It seems right now, only what is sent to the syslog is logged. However, it would be immensely helpful if 1. the actual commands run by the shepherd

guix gc fails with foreign key error

2018-10-30 Thread Florian Dold
Hi all, "guix gc" currently fails for me on two separate machines, both are running a recent version of GuixSD: # guix gc finding garbage collector roots... deleting garbage... guix gc: error: build failed: executing SQLite statement: FOREIGN KEY constraint failed # guix --version guix (GNU Gui

Re: Choose devices according to linux-libre code

2018-10-30 Thread Gary Johnson
My laptop is a ThinkPenguin. All of their laptops and desktops are built specifically to support the linux-libre kernel and not need any proprietary drivers or firmware. Check them out here: https://thinkpenguin.com Happy hacking, Gary help-guix-requ...@gnu.org writes: > Send Help-Guix mailin

Re: bug#33190: Choose devices according to linux-libre code

2018-10-30 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-10-28 19:45, zna...@tutanota.com wrote: As I've got here https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-10/msg00083.html some devices cannot work without linux-firmware, requiring non-free software drivers. It is so bad. I believe the issue can be solved by choosing devices tha