Re: *** TRYING TO INSTALL GUIXSD v0.15.0 FOR DAYS ***

Hi Brian, Earlier, I wrote: > (1) You could wait until hydra.gnu.org comes back online, which I expect > to happen sometime next week. Hydra has a full set of substitutes for > 0.15.0, so you shouldn't need to build Guile at that point. hydra.gnu.org is now back up, so this would be a good time

Re: python-minimal compilation is breaking

Hi, I ran into the same problem on a very powerful machine. In my case the congestion test was the problem. It finished by eating all of my 128Gb of RAM. This problem is known and fixed upstream by disabling the test. I submitted a patch to disable it on our 3.6.5 version, but it will have to go

Re: python-minimal compilation is breaking

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 05:18:00 +0100 (CET) wrote: > Hello, Guix Help! > This is not working on Lenovo G50-30 everytime (already 3 times) > > # guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm > --substitute-urls=https://berlin.guixsd.org > building > /gnu/store/6c4g38n9fhvnlk2v

guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations

On my GuixSD system: # guix pull Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'... guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix-1-link" # ls -al /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 24 13:31 ./ drw

Re: Package Install Question for New User

On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:33:22 -0700 Brian Woodcox wrote: > All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of > packages that were already installed as root. > > Is there a way to have guix use the packages that were installed in > the root account instead of downloading and rebuild

Re: Package Install Question for New User

On 05/11/2018 17.33, Brian Woodcox wrote: I then trying to install a package from the terminal. How about icecat. So I issue the command to install that. All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of packages that were already installed as root. There is a single system

Package Install Question for New User

So I now have GuixSD installed and operational. Well sort of, I would like to install some packages. I am seeing a lot of information on the web (including videos) and old information about installing packages and the .guix-profile. Let’s say I’m logged in as user noobie. I then trying to ins

Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

swedebugia writes: > Hi > > On 2018-11-05 04:25, George Clemmer wrote: >> Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using >> the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! >> > Would it be a help to you if guix declared and printed the path to > itself and version it is

Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

Clément Lassieur writes: > George Clemmer writes: > >> Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using >> the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! > > Maybe you could try 'sudo -E guix system reconfigure', so that it uses > your current user's environment variables

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

Hi On 2018-11-01 17:37, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: Bad Read-Header-Line header: # The server was out of space and stopped responding. Does it work now? -- Cheers Swedebugia

Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

George Clemmer writes: > Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using > the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! Maybe you could try 'sudo -E guix system reconfigure', so that it uses your current user's environment variables. Cheers, Clément

Re: Berlin substitute server "Bad Read-Header-Line header: #

Hi On 2018-11-04 23:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: For the record, this was due to lack of disk space on that machine > (nginx was unable to reply at all.) Could we catch cases like these and print a nice error instead of a backtrace? If you point me to the right line and file I could try writi

Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

Hi On 2018-11-05 04:25, George Clemmer wrote: Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! Would it be a help to you if guix declared and printed the path to itself and version it is using when reconfiguring? That way