Re: `exception wrong-type-arg (value "scm_to_utf8_stringn")` appearing on update

I think I may have just figured it out, but I ended up changing a number of things until it worked. Maybe see the git history of my custom guix emacs configs here: for an idea of what things might help.

`exception wrong-type-arg (value "scm_to_utf8_stringn")` appearing on update

ts: (#<&assertion-fail…>) | In unknown file: |0 (backtrace #) | | (exception wrong-type-arg (value "scm_to_utf8_stringn") (value "Wrong type argument in position ~A (expecting ~A): ~S") (value (1 "string" #f)) (value (#f))) `---- My definiti

Re: guix home: error: open-fdes-at: Not a directory

Hi Felix, I didn't. I have a separate physical drive that is my `/home', so that didn't change. I only changed the `/' drive. On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 20:21 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > On Tue, Mar 11 2025, Benjamin Slade wrote:

guix home: error: open-fdes-at: Not a directory

ebugging/getting more information about the `guix home: error: open-fdes-at: Not a directory' message? best,  —Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . <https://lambda-y.net>)  `(pgp_fp: ,(B20E 444C FA80 B5F8 15FA 4AD8 6FBF CD68 3B05 2B84))    "se

Re: extremely long boot time since a few months back

ed on and set up the EFI partition properly as vfat &c.) best,  —Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . <https://lambda-y.net>)  `(pgp_fp: ,(B20E 444C FA80 B5F8 15FA 4AD8 6FBF CD68 3B05 2B84))    "sent by [mu4e] 1.12.9 in [Emacs] 30.1 with [or

Re: sdcv build error

Many thanks, Luis! This was all very helpful. (`sdcv' is working again, but it's quite useful to know this for future issues.) And `guix time-machine' is useful in other cases too, I found. best, ---Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . &

Re: sdcv build error

E -- shell sdcv -- sdcv > > The following worked for me as well (commit value from > <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/2043841>): > >   guix time-machine --commit=25d99dd -- shell sdcv -- sdcv > > Good luck, > > [2. OpenPGP public key --- application/pgp-keys; > OpenPGP_0x0AB0D067

sdcv build error

Hi Guix, I'm getting a build error for the `sdcv' package when trying to update packages today: , | /gnu/store/x54lfn35qnn66hrrqfnwkii905kiws7b-glib-2.82.1/include/glib-2.0/glib/gunicode.h:809:34: error: invalid conversion from ‘const gchar*’ {aka ‘const char*’} to ‘gchar*’ {aka ‘char*’}

extremely long boot time since a few months back

Is it likely to be something that's changed in Guix that interacts with my `config.scm'? Something to do with the physical hardware? (I haven't changed any of the physical components; and I don't have any reason to think there's anything wrong with root/boot SSD drive otherwi

Re: zig-build DNS issue (ghostty build)

Thanks, Carlo. That's very helpful and it makes more sense now what was going on. (I knew about the Guix containerisation, but somehow didn't think of it here; but it's clear in retrospect.) best,  —Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . &

Re: zig-build DNS issue (ghostty build)

Many thanks, Murilo! This is excellent. (I see zen-browser is there as well.) On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 at 08:33 -0300, Murilo wrote: > On Thu Jan 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM -03, Benjamin Slade wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> I've got the start of a Guix package build for the new [Gho

zig-build DNS issue (ghostty build)

glang/zig/issues/14636> With one of the fixes being "works after changing DNS servers from my router to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4" [<https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14636#issuecomment-1894254834>], and I note that the Guix `/etc/resolv.conf' points at my local network/rout

Re: "xmu not found" issue trying to build zutty package

> You can add 'libxt' to inputs, run 'pkg-config --cflags libxmu' will > report 'xt' is missing if not. I'll send a patch to add libxt to > libxmu's 'propagated-inputs' later, usually those kind of indirect > dependencies are handled this way. Many thanks! Adding `libxt' to `inputs' does indeed e

"xmu not found" issue trying to build zutty package

guix/2022-05-28.log> ) though I'd forgotten I'd tried this before and hit the same issue. Why is the waf-build not able to recognise that `xmu` is available (no matter where I try including `libxmu`)? Is there something to do to make it visible? Do I need to modify the build sequen

KMonad in Guix

Does anyone have an example of using KMonad in Guix? I got the udev snippet from the KMonad github page, but what about: 1) How to specify keyboards, e.g. what to put in `(device-file "/dev/input/by-id/my-keyboard-kbd")`? (I've managed by-path, but wondered if there was a better way) 2) how to

using magit (and maybe mu4e) for sending patches to Guix?

though not necessarily involving the email bit using mu4e). best,  —Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . <https://lambda-y.net>)  `(pgp_fp: ,(B20E 444C FA80 B5F8 15FA 4AD8 6FBF CD68 3B05 2B84))    "sent by [mu4e] 1.12.5 in [Emacs] 30.0.50 with [org-

Re: LuaTeX/luaotfload doesn't find any fonts (using fontspec) on Guix?

Many thanks, Nicolas. I'll try that out! On Tue, 14 May 2024 19:35:58 +0200 (4 hours, 36 minutes, 43 seconds ago), Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > I forgot to send a carbon copy to help-guix ML in my last answer, so > I include it here. > Nicolas Goaziou via writes: &

Re: LuaTeX/luaotfload doesn't find any fonts (using fontspec) on Guix?

work with additional fonts, and currently this means I cannot do this work on any of my Guix machines, it seems. best,  —Benjamin --  '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . <https://lambda-y.net>)  `(pgp_fp: ,(B20E 444C FA80 B5F8 15FA 4AD8 6FBF CD68 3B05 2B84))   

LuaTeX/luaotfload doesn't find any fonts (using fontspec) on Guix?

I'm having trouble using LuaTeX on Guix. luaotfload doesn't seem to be able to find any fonts, whether system-wide or local (when used with fontspec). I get messages like: luaotfload | db : Reload initiated (formats: otf,ttf,ttc); reason: Font "Cardo" not found. luaotfload | resol

Re: system hangs at boot - LUKS /home/ problem(?)

I can't roll back to the earlier commit mentioned by Remco because other things/channels depend on me being roughly up-to-date on the main guix channel. However, I can confirm the issue, as changing my configuration *not* to mount an encrypted /home resolves the boot issue. I note two things:

Re: Stuck at boot on fresh install

nd so reinstalled with xfs instead. And the initial stock install went fine and booted, but as soon as I had installed my actual old configuration, the same issue recurred. I have to do some additional diagnosis yet. best,  —Benjamin -- '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  (website . <h

Re: What are you doing for a screen locker?

I've been using slock, which seems to work with AwesomeWM and StumpWM. I'm not sure how I feel running suckless things though. The setup Leah mentioned on the Fedi [ ] sounds interesting, if

Re: VPN

On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 22:07:02 -0700 (19 hours, 51 minutes, 38 seconds ago), Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix, > With either OpenVPN or Wireguard system services, is it possible to route DNS > requests and also opt to block connections without VPN? I'm also curious about this. I've found the

Re: substitute for Skype

Depending on the exact use case, there are some other possibilities that don't run "natively" on Guix, but are still free software and could be installed from Flatpak or Nix. E.g. the Signal client for desktop and Matrix Element. Though, actually, I think the Nheko client for Matrix (available a

Re: Enterprise Guix Hosting?

Not something I've tried personally, but maybe PantherX (Guix-based) could be relevant here? https://www.pantherx.org/ 30 Jul 2022 17:18:13 Yasuaki Kudo : > Oh wow!! Thank you everyone!!!    I will definitely show our conversation > thread to my partners - in fact, right now!!!   Let's make it

Re: stumpwm on guix - "sb-cltl2" issues

I think I finally figured out how to get (my) StumpWM configuration to work on Guix: - add (maybe only need one:) - to `.bashrc': , | export SBCL_HOME="$HOME/.guix-home/profile/lib/sbcl" ` - to Guix Home configuration, a home-environment variable `("SBCL_HOME" . "$HOME/.g

Re: Why Emacs is echoing message for each installed Emacs package while startup

On Sat, 21 May 2022 20:47:17 -0600 (7 minutes, 44 seconds ago), Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > [...] > >> > But, why is the message is shown? Can someone remove it? It would > >> > probably be better that I myself clone the repo, fix it and send the > >> > patch, but my hard disk space isn't

Re: Why Emacs is echoing message for each installed Emacs package while startup

On Sat, 21 May 2022 15:09:50 -0600 (50 minutes, 46 seconds ago), Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > Akib Azmain Turja writes: > > zimoun writes: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 22:29, Akib Azmain Turja wrote: > >> > >>> The timing maybe wrong, because it is more a year old (and I

Re: stumpwm on guix - "sb-cltl2" issues

On Fri, 06 May 2022 08:44:46 -0600 (1 week, 4 hours, 25 minutes ago), Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: > Wil deBeest writes: > >  > > Wil deBeest writes: > > > >>  > >> Benjamin Slade writes: > >> > >>> I'm trying to run my long

Re: using dpkg-deb in a Guix package definition

On Fri, 06 May 2022 08:39:48 -0600 (1 week, 4 hours, 10 minutes ago), Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: > Benjamin Slade writes: > > Are there any good examples of writing a Guix package definition using dpkg? > I'm not sure if this helps, but I had to consume a deb and wrote

some Nix packages on Guix System fail with error referencing GLIBC_PRIVATE

ore/6w8g7njm4mck5dmjxws0z1xnrxvl81xa-glibc-2.34-115/lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_PRIVATE' not found (required by /gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib/librt.so.1)' I filed a bug at Nix ( <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171050> ), but am not

using dpkg-deb in a Guix package definition

les of writing a Guix package definition using dpkg? best,  —Ben -- '(Dr Benjamin Slade (he/him)  ((Linguistics . University of Utah) . <https://linguistics.utah.edu> )  `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19))    ((:official-mail . ) (:secure-m

Re: Nix on Guix? (and setting Guix $PATH)

Reinstalling Nix seemed to work for whatever reason and I don't seem to have the permissions errors this time trying to install or run Nix packages. But I have to run `source /run/current-system/profile/etc/profile.d/nix.sh' from a terminal every time to get Nix packages in my PATH. Is there a b

Re: Nix on Guix?

Thanks, Petr. I did add and update channels. I wonder if it's something simple, like needing to restart the system after installing Nix? I'll try again.

stumpwm on guix - "sb-cltl2" issues

I'm trying to run my long-standing stumpwm init.lisp on a recent Guix install, using the packaged stumpwm, however when it launches, it fails to process the init.lisp and gives me an "Don't know how to REQUIRE sb-cltl2." error. I've set the SBCL_HOME variable both in .xprofile and in the init.li

Nix on Guix?

Hello Guix, I'm trying to get the Nix package manager running on Guix. I followed the instructions at: and successfully installed it, but trying to install and/or run any Nix applications gives me permission errors. I inst

Re: ebook reader recommendations?

ems to be > hard to > find on the market: > https://github.com/bq/cervantes > Any recommendations, anyone? > Cheers! > -- > Pierre Neidhardt > https://ambrevar.xyz/ -- '(Benjamin Slade ("he/him") ( https://lambda-y.net ) (:blog https://babbagefiles.xyz

Re: Way to synchronize files like Dropbox

I would also recommend syncthing. I use it to synchronize files between several computers (including a GuixSD one) as well as mobile. -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running unde

Re: pdf editor for placing stress

is pretty good for this sort of thing: https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools as an alternative (or complementary) approach, you could use: interleave: https://github.com/rudolfochrist/interleave or org-noter: https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter to have synchronised text notes for pdfs. --

Re: Gaming desktop hardware + 802.11 ac wifi

ood solution. Great! (As far as I can tell those are the best wifi cards that don't need blobs. I don't think there are any ac-capable wifi cards that don't require blobs, unfortunately.) -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE

Re: Gaming desktop hardware + 802.11 ac wifi

t, but I don't know about your particularly model. (And I don't think Coreboot is an option for that model either.) -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . htt

Re: Gaming desktop hardware + 802.11 ac wifi

g in USB? > -- > Pierre Neidhardt > https://ambrevar.xyz/ -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: Gaming desktop hardware + 802.11 ac wifi

Mini - Atheros AR5B22 a/b/g/n dual-band 450mbps 2.4/5 Ghz On 2019-01-17T13:28:16-0700, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > But it.s 2.4GHz only. I need 5GHz. > Has anyone heard of a 5GHz wifi chipset compatible with Linux-libre? > -- > Pierre Neidhardt > https://ambrevar.xyz/ -- Be

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5.1

for me. > Hope that help. > All the best, > simon -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5.1

same command only shows me around 900(!) packages. But on the same machine, the expected full range of Guix packages are available in the terminal via =guix package=. What could cause Emacs-Guix to only show a subset of packages in this one case? -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(p

Re: Next browser finally on master!

Pierre, This is great news! Just installed it via Guix and played with it for a minute or two and am looking forward to more extensive use. cheers, -Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on

Re: using Shepherd outside of GuixSD ?

ks, Ludo'. So the 'guix system' tools are only available on GuixSD proper, and not via the guix standalone? I'll certain report back with when/if I manage to try it about successes/failures. —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 1

using Shepherd outside of GuixSD ?

of trying to use Shepherd on a Void Linux install in place of the default runit init. Thoughts? Suggestions? —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gn

Re: openvpn with networkmanager

to use this in practice. Does anyone have a working config they could share? —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Lin

Re: GTK icons missing with EXWM

installed gnome-icon-theme and I believe it fixes a few icons, but > lots are still missing. > Should I install a specific package? > -- > Pierre Neidhardt > https://ambrevar.xyz/ -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320

Re: sbcl/glibc troubles

t being able to find GLIBC_2.28. I notice it also says: (CFFI::FL-ERROR "Unable to load foreign library (~A).~% ~A" :LIBOSICAT #<(SIMPLE-BASE-STRING 422) Error opening shared object "/home/slade/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.4.4-linux-x64/home/slade/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/s

sbcl/glibc troubles

acsomancer/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/osicat-20180228-git/posix/libosicat.so). <--> I have glibc-2.28 installed however. Is there a way to get it to associate with this instead of (for whatever reason) with glibc-2.27? —Ben -- Benjamin

racket

ument position: 1st ; [,bt for context] ; ptr-ref: contract violation ; expected: (and/c cpointer? (not/c (lambda (p) (pointer-equal? p #f ; given: #f ; argument position: 1st ; [,bt for context] And it doesn't accept any more input after that point (including ",bt"). -- Be

Re: openvpn with networkmanager

a herd or otherwise)? thanks, —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: openvpn with networkmanager

on my Bedrock/pieces-from-a-bunch-of-different-distros machine, OpenVPN 'just works' directly in NetworkManager). —Ben On 2018-09-10T10:05:56-0600, Adam Massmann wrote: > Hi Ben, > Benjamin Slade writes: > > > > What is a recommended/working way of using Open

Re: openvpn with networkmanager

.) What is a recommended/working way of using OpenVPN on GuixSD? cheers, —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose L

Re: How do I see Japanese characters in Icecat?

how > font packages work. > Luther -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

openvpn with networkmanager

expected), but moreover as an ordinary user I'm not allowed to create them. Is the best thing to login as root and add these to NetworkManager? -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs runni

Re: confusion/mdl

flags. Look > around "-fpermissive" in the gcc manual. > (Sorry if this help is a little scarce, I'm very busy these days... :p) > -- > Pierre Neidhardt > https://ambrevar.xyz/ -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF3

confusion/mdl

machine either, the old gcc versions don't seem to build properly. -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: Guix on aarch64

On 2018-08-21T11:44:44-0600, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Benjamin Slade writes: > > I have followed that page in the manual (and just repeated now just > > in case) to make sure both hydra.gnu.org.pub (though I think it > > should be authorised by default) and

Re: Guix on aarch64

ough I think it should be authorised by default) and hydra.gnu.org.pub are authorised, and it's still building everything from source as far as I can tell when I try to do `guix pull`. —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE

Re: backup questions

rial suggests it may not be working, though I'll have to try more extensively). —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(C

Re: Guix on aarch64

with an "out of memory error" with the a second 8Gb swapfile on top of my original 3Gb swapfile. (Unfortunately, even after I fixed that, it chugged away for over 24hours, when I just wanted to install `emacs` and `certbot`. In the end I just ended up using Nix to install these. :( ) -- B

getting applications from Nix to have access to fonts

--> However, even doing this, I end up with exactly the same issues. (And I've tried calling the script directly, e.g. with `~/.local/bin/gargoyle`, just in case the PATH from .profile wasn't working correctly.) Does anyone have any insight or suggestions on how to resolve this?

Re: Guix on aarch64

sghh265k30fn0cj24rxc9p6xvn6yv3qs-perl-5.26.1.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix package: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/sghh265k30fn0cj24rxc9p6xvn6yv3qs-perl-5.26.1.drv' failed —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F

Re: Guix on aarch64

the end of the command so that it > goes in the background. > Clément thanks again, —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Guix on aarch64

.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild` It just seems to hang. When I look at the process, it doesn't seem to be using cpu resources anything. I tried leaving it for a couple of hours, but it never seems to do anything. Any suggestions? thanks, —Ben -- Benjamin Sla

Re: How should I install non-guix software?

Thanks, all, for the extended information. > I would run it with strace, as in `strace -f ./kitty`. That will help > you find exactly which files are missing. It may be easier to just > build the program with Guix. It might be, once I grok Guix better. -- Benjamin Slad

Re: How should I install non-guix software?

ssage: "./kitty: No such file or directory" I tried symlinking /bin/bash and /usr/bin/env, but this didn't help. I'm sure something in the manual or this thread probably answers this, but I often find I can generalise from concrete examples better than vice-versa. -

Re: backup questions

.2" "out" _) In guix/packages.scm: 1246:13 6 (package-output _ _ _ _) 881:14 5 (cache! # # ("x86_64-linux" . #t) _) In unknown file: 4 (_ # # #) In guix/grafts.scm: 310:4 3 (graft-derivation # # /gnu/store…> …) 188:4 2 (references-oracle # #

backup questions

(for chop-backup). It seems to have no substitute binaries and the local build fails. I've fallen back to using Borg backup for now (which seems good, but more fragile than I'd like, especially in terms of setting up automated bash scripts). -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xy

Re: mcron

ut that this works (at least I hope so): --8<---cut here---start->8--- (job '(next-minute (range 0 60 5)) "dosomethingevery5minutes") (job '(next-minute (range 0 60 10)) "dosomethingevery10minutes") --8<---cut

Re: mcron

it work for the same for the user session cron in `~/.config/cron/job.guile` ? thanks, ---Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: LUKS-encrypted root and unencrypted /boot ?

sical keyloggers and so on (perhaps more efficiently). So while I'd prefer to have the whole thing encrypted, realistically I'm mainly protecting my personal data if it's stolen/taken from me (as long it's off, that is). -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp

Re: LUKS-encrypted root and unencrypted /boot ?

urations. Those configurations appear as GRUB lines. Each > configuration could have a different kernel and kernels take space, > so it wouldn't scale well. Plus, I think some other stuff is needed > as well, like the initrd, which is large too, etc. I mused briefly about mirrorin

mcron

e network-manager-applet ; probably change to something else ; mcron ; guile-based cron %base-packages)) ;; Use the "desktop" services, which include the X11 ;; log-in service, networking with NetworkManager, and more. (services (co

Re: LUKS-encrypted root and unencrypted /boot ?

an encrypted /home as a compromise that boots faster (and only requests the password once). -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9C A320 BBE8 2B52 EE19)) '(sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux . https://gnu.org ) `(Choose Linux ,(Choose Freedom) . https://linux.com )

Re: LUKS-encrypted root and unencrypted /boot ?

in /gnu/store). Ah, I see. Is this an immutable design decision? It would seem good to be able to keep the kernel in a separate space in order to avoid the issue of extremely long unlocking times when booting. -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E

Re: difficulty getting networking working on new install

I wonder if this is worth throwing into the manual somewhere [unless it's there already and I missed it], since these seem to be the default networking tools included in the 'desktop package'.) -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp: ,(21BA 2AE1 28F6 DF36 110A 0E9

LUKS-encrypted root and unencrypted /boot ?

Doing a full LUKS-encryption on root, including /boot results in very slow unlocking at boot (about 30 secs even with --iter set to 1000). Is there any way to do an unencrypted /boot with an encrypted root? I found that at least in GuixSD 0.12 it didn't seem to be possible: https://lists.gnu.org/a

difficulty getting networking working on new install

I'm having some trouble getting networking up on my new GuixSD install. Using the livecd (which I installed with), I used wpa_supplicant+dhclient (as per https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Preparing-for-Installation.html) and that worked without issue, but the same method didn't