GNU IceCat 68.2.0esr: Problems in password fields

2019-11-04 Thread sirgazil
Hi, I upgraded my system today and I've noticed some problems when trying to write passwords in login pages: * The text cursor is not shown. * Writing is horribly slow. * The input method indicator in the GNOME desktop (top right) disappears/reappears erratically. Anyone else experiencing this

Re: ntpd: kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x41: Clock Unsynchronized

2019-11-04 Thread Matias Jose Seco Baccanelli
Eccomi! On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 15:23:01 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > > Hm... I'm not sure but I have a guess. > > By default, ntpd will not change your clock if it is very wrong. If it > is only a couple minutes wrong, then ntpd will slowly adjust the time, > but if it is wrong by some large thresh

Re: Building "special" binary bundles (i.e. not using guix pack)

2019-11-04 Thread Thompson, David
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:53 AM Thompson, David wrote: > > Sure, I could just grab a bunch of pre-built stuff from Debian's > repositories and stuff it in a tarball, but I want to use Guix in > order to have a reproducible toolchain and because this bundle will > include several Guile libraries tha

Re: `guix install protobuf:static` headers?

2019-11-04 Thread zimoun
Hi, Thank you for the explanations. On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 18:19, Marius Bakke wrote: > > zimoun writes: > > What should be the correct behaviour of "out" vs "static"? > > 'static' outputs typically contain *only* the .a libraries, as you > found. If you want the headers, you need to add prot

Building "special" binary bundles (i.e. not using guix pack)

2019-11-04 Thread Thompson, David
Hello all, First, context and parameters: I have a project for which I'd like to release pre-built binaries that will "just work" on major FHS-based distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora. As far as native executables go, this bundle requires Guile and roughly a dozen C shared libraries. The g

“Managing Servers with GNU Guix: A Tutorial”

2019-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Jakob wrote a great tutorial on how to use ‘guix deploy’ to deploy Guix System to one machine or to several virtual private servers (VPSs): https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/managing-servers-with-gnu-guix-a-tutorial/ Give it a spin, and spread the word! Ludo’.

Re: “Guix Profiles in Practice”

2019-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Jonathan Frederickson skribis: > On Nov 3, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote >> Now, this would be very much stateful: you can’t tell in advance whether >> you’re going to build a new profile based on the current Guix, or >> whether you’re going to reuse a previously cached profile

Re: “Guix Profiles in Practice”

2019-11-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > That sounds like a good idea. ‘guix develop’ could keep the profiles it > manages under ~/.cache/guix. > > Now, this would be very much stateful: you can’t tell in advance whether > you’re going to build a new profile based on the current Guix, or > whether you’re going