Re: GuixSD on T440p won't boot or install properly / missing free software ... nouveau ...

2023-09-30 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Kodcu et al, I actually used the same laptop and have just bought a replacement. Believe it or not it should actually work really well - but there is this weird quirk: Just after grub, but before the graphical login manager loads, the screen fails to render. This is not a problem if all goe

Re: Avoiding Typing Encryption Passphrase Multiple Times

2022-08-22 Thread alex sassmannshausen
Specifically this section might be useful for avoiding the second half of the passwords that need to be typed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Device_encryption#With_a_keyfile_embedded_in_the_initramfs I'd be interested in seeing your os declaration if you succeed with this! Best wishe

Re: Appropriate way to use Guix API from a Guile program

2020-05-22 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, On Fri, 2020-05-22 at 09:43 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > zimoun writes: > > > If you feel in an experimental mood, you can try the Konrad's patch > > [1]. It sets up the PATH accordingly and hides all the internals. > > In particular it hides implementation details that are likely to >

Re: personal communications server

2019-08-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Heya, quil...@riseup.net writes: > El Lun, 5 de Agosto de 2019, 4:13 pm, Ricardo Wurmus escribió: >> >> Hi Quiliro, >> >>> PING > > Hi Ricardo. Thank you for your response. > >> It is not clear to me what the question in your earlier email is. > > I would like to know if there is someone that is

Re: Problem on installing GuixSD on a remote server using iPXE

2019-07-02 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Fwiw, I'm currently installing Guix manually from the boot ISO with hetzner's VPSs. You just have to ask them to make the ISO available as one of the boot ISOs. Don't know if that is more convenient than installing from another distro though? Alex Reza Alizadeh Majd writes: > Thanks for your

Re: A few questions about guix containers

2019-05-28 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Arun Isaac writes: >> So I've been using guix system container with some success for a while >> now, but I've been relying on this old patch I wrote to add shared >> network support, in the same way that guix environment can do it [1] >> >> 1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28128

Re: A few questions about guix containers

2019-05-27 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
ery interesting! Cheers, Alex Christopher Baines writes: > Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. >> >> Specifically, I can create containerised system using >> $ guix system

A few questions about guix containers

2019-05-11 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. Specifically, I can create containerised system using $ guix system container /path/to/sysconf.scm I should then be able to run commands in that container using $ guix container exec PID CMD But here's the rub: how do I find the P

Re: GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

2019-05-02 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
宋文武 writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> We are thrilled to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.0.0! >> >> This 1.0 release is a major milestone for Guix. It represents 7 years >> of hard work with more than 40,000 commits by 260 people, 19 releases, >> and an equally amazing amount of work o

Re: Brother HL-2130: CUPS, foomatic, hpijs

2018-07-25 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Pierre, FWIW, I have the same printer and have run into the same problems. I think you might be onto somethingwith the hpijs requirement. I have not gotten around to trying that though! Alex Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hi there! > > Trying to get a Brother HL-2130 running on my GuixSD here.

Re: Guile fails http-get because of GNUTLS

2017-11-24 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Sirgazil, sirgazil writes: > That seems to be bug #29258: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=29258 You are correct, thank you for pointing this out! Alex

Guile fails http-get because of GNUTLS

2017-11-23 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi I'm working with the web modules of Guile at the moment, and I've noticed that `http-get` fails for a lot of sites that run https (including Google, guardian.com). The error that is thrown is ERROR: Throw to key `gnutls-error' with args `(# read_from_session_record_port)'. Is anyone else expe

Re: networkmanager hostname woes

2017-09-13 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Thomas, Thomas Danckaert writes: > Hi Guix, > > since the change to networkmanager, I've been running into the > following problem: when I connect to a wireless network using > networkmanager, I can no longer start graphical applications > (starting any program fails with “cannot open displ

Re: How/When will guix pull stop to compile the 616 files?

2017-08-08 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Paul Paul Dufresne writes: > Ok, I was able to make a guix pull without compiling the 616 files. > > But I just done it again, and it seems to compile the full 616 files > each time a commit is done... > I think. This is right — guix pull will download (now via git) the latest available snaps

Re: persistent reproducibility ?

2017-03-23 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Zimoun, zimoun writes: > Hi! > > On 21 March 2017 at 17:19, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello! >> >> zimoun skribis: >> >>> The typical research workflow is: >>> >>> - Alice proposes new method and/or algorithm, publishes a paper and >>> illustrates that by the software `foo'. Let the best cas

Re: persistent reproducibility ?

2017-03-21 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Simon, zimoun writes: > Hi Guixers, > > > Disclaimer: my background is about numerical analysis (PDE, Krylov > solver, etc.) and I am currently working in some Core Facility about > biology and bioinformatic (NGS pipelines, flow cytometry clustering, > etc.). Orthogonal communities but same is

Re: herd status

2017-02-22 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Catonano, Catonano writes: > catonano@xps ~$ herd status > error: connect: /home/catonano/.config/shepherd/run/socket: File o directory > non esistente > catonano@xps ~$ > > "File or directory not existent" > > is this normal ? This is indeed normal if you don't have a "per user" instance o

Re: FAQ

2016-07-16 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Andreas Enge writes: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 01:02:33PM -0400, myglc2 wrote: >> Vincent Legoll writes: >> > OK, I'll try to create a FAQ section in the official doc then... >> Great idea! > > Hm, lest I be misunderstood: The aim is that reading the manual should > be sufficient. If ther

Re: GuixSD on arm (ng0)

2016-07-05 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 03:04:56PM +0200, David Craven wrote: >> Just chiming in here... >> >> I know that github being propietary software probably won't be >> considered, but it is unarguably an awesome piece of software, >> possibly the best propietary software s

Re: GuixSD on arm

2016-07-05 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hey Jookia, You might not be looking for this kind of email, but I wanted to send it anyway, feel free to ignore… I'm sorry to hear you feel the project is currently not set up to help people like you contribute. Obviously I cannot speak for the project, as I'm rather involved on the sidelines (