about guile-gcrypt in guix environment guix --container

2018-11-06 Thread guy fleury
hi all i try to set a guix environment with: guix environment guix --container --ad-hoc git then i run ./confugure in a reposity i clone from savannah but it fails whith this error: -- checking if (gcrypt hash) is available... no conf

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

2018-11-06 Thread Brian Woodcox
I have resolved the mouse selection issue in VirtualBox on Mac OSX High Sierra running GuixSD. To fix this issue, you have to go to Settings —> Mouse and Touchpad remove the check mark on the Devices tab for Enable this device. Reboot the computer and this will automatically be re-enabled when

Re: guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations

2018-11-06 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi! On Ubuntu, starting from "guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: ..." I manually removed/changed/created symlinks and had guix working again. A few `guix pull` and `sudo guix pull` later: --- ~: guix pull guile: warning: failed to install locale hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-l

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

2018-11-06 Thread George Clemmer
Hello swedebugia, swedebugia writes: > Hi > > On 2018-11-01 01:09, George Clemmer wrote: > snip >> And, with the current state of the guix infrastructure, even a 'guix >> pull' on a fresh vm-image triggers guile bootstrap. And a guile >> bootstrap, on the best of days, displays these symptoms: h

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

2018-11-06 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi Mark, I do have it working now in VirtualBox. I may try it again down the road, just to see how smooth the experience should be. :) The only real problem I have with this setup is the fact that the windowing system (XFCE) in VirtualBox is loosing mouse functionality. The mouse pointer is t

Guix pull error

2018-11-06 Thread znavko
Hello, Guix Help! I watch an issue. Trying to roll-back and choose another kernel in grub I have no changes. Guix says 'Wrong type to upply: #t' # guix pull  --substitute-urls=https://berlin.guixsd.org Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.sava

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

2018-11-06 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-01 01:09, George Clemmer wrote: snip And, with the current state of the guix infrastructure, even a 'guix pull' on a fresh vm-image triggers guile bootstrap. And a guile bootstrap, on the best of days, displays these symptoms: howling CPUs and hardly any disk activity. So, relativ

RE: guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations

2018-11-06 Thread Henk Katerberg
Hi Ludo, root@stoeptegel ~/.config/guix# ls -al total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 6 08:55 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 19 13:33 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Oct 25 09:16 current -> /root/.config/guix/current-1-link I have since performed the following steps: cd /var/guix/profi

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

2018-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, I’m happy to announce that hydra.gnu.org is now back up, thanks to Mark H Weaver who made sure all the services were up and running yesterday. For the record, the outage was initiated by the FSF sysadmins to change disks in the machine’s disk array (hydra.gnu.org is hosted by the FSF). The

Re: guix pull fails while Migrating profile generations

2018-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Henk Katerberg skribis: > # 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 ro