Re: build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly

2017-05-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> I am getting this error right now on multiple machines: >>> >>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from >

Re: build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly

2017-04-29 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > On 28/04/17 23:21, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> On 28/04/17 23:16, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> Gave it a shot... still seems to be breaking here. >> >> Oh :-( >> >> Did you re-launch guix-daemon after re-

Re: build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly

2017-04-28 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Chris, Leo, > > On 28/04/17 22:32, Leo Famulari wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> I am getting this error right now on multiple machines: >>> substitute: guix/ui.scm:1255:8:

build failed: substituter `substitute' died unexpectedly

2017-04-28 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
I am getting this error right now on multiple machines: substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://mirror.hydra.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://mirror.

Re: squee

2017-04-18 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Catonano writes: > Ok, I was just confused, it works like a charm > > Sorry for the noise Ah! No worries about the noise. I'm happy to see someone using squee. It hasn't gotten much love in the last couple of years. I intend to return to using it in the not too distant future. If you're inte

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-03 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Chris[es], > > [If ‘commodity’ means ‘whatever this OpenStack thing might be’, or > anything involving comparison of pets to cattle, this is not that. But > this caught my eye:] > > On 02/12/16 20:51, Christopher Baines wrote: >> Thanks for looking in to this Chris!

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-03 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Baines writes: > On 02/12/16 04:06, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Except, oops! This won't boot. We need to put GRUB on it. >> >> Well here's where I'm stuck for tonight. I don't know exactly what's >> needed; maybe eit

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello everyone! So I got a very nice and useful response about getting GuixSD working on Rackspace Cloud. I've gotten permission to post the conversation verbatim, so I've done so below. But here's the tl;dr: - In order for our image to work, we need to get XenServer and nova-agent working

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-02 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi Chris, > > Sounds like you've been having fun :-) Yes, though I'd rather have things working than have fun right now ;) > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> >>> Relatedly! Use

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Relatedly! User dvc in #guix on freenode suggests looking at > https://www.vultr.com/ which looks quite affordable and hey! It has a > "custom ISO" option. If we can convert our USB boot stick thingy > (presumably via xorriso) we could

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-12-01 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Chris Marusich writes: > Hi, > > Reading Chris' report, I was inspired to try the same thing on EC2. I > don't know much about Linode or Rackspace, but I do know EC2. I'm happy > to report that I was successfully in creating a GuixSD EC2 instance. > > Here's what I did. Essentially, all I wante

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-11-30 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Marius Bakke writes: > I've had the questionable privilege of working on Openstack for some > time, and indeed have a GuixSD system running on it. I can tell you that > any errors you see are not necessarily representative of what's > happening in the back-end, although it does sound like the Rack

Re: Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-11-29 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > What am I doing wrong? I'm not totally sure... I feel like I'm > navigating a jungle out here in the OpenStack / Rackspace docs. Here's > one thing I found: > > https://community.rackspace.com/products/f/25/t/7186 > >

Hosting a GuixSD server on commodity hosting platforms, a journey

2016-11-29 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello all, I tried getting GuixSD working on Rackspace Cloud last night. Ludovic suggested I write to the list to talk about my success/failure, regardless of whether I made it or not. My goal is to get GuixSD hosted reliably on *some* commodity hosting platform, whether it's Rackspace or Linode

Re: How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-05 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
ng0 writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:35:29AM +0100, David Craven wrote: >>> > Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. >>> >>> How recent is this? Could it be related to this commit? > > For me since we have the new icecat, not just si

How to make current icecat less crashy

2016-11-03 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Seems a lot of us have been experiencing crashes in the current Icecat. in Guix master. Ricardo Wurmus gave me a nice tip that seems to have fixed the problem here: go to about:config find the keys gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends for both change “cairo

Re: GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-25 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > I'm also not sure it will find the right paths if your username is > different on the remote host, and some of the binaries it's looking for > are in your user's profile there? Well, I just found in the `tramp-remote-path' docs:

Re: GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-25 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
myglc2 writes: > In the interest of stating problems next to the fix, this fixes the > error message ... > > "Couldn't find a proper `ls' command" > > ... when tramping _in_ to GuixSD from another GuixSD machine. > > Does it work when connecting from Guix on a Foreign distro? I haven't tried but

Re: GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-20 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Ho-ho, it turns out the snippet Ludo pasted me on IRC was the answer >> after all: >> >> ;; Make sure we work on remote guixsd machines :) >> ;; probably only helps if you start on a guixs

Re: GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-19 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Hello! > > I've been trying to access a remote GuixSD server I have running using > TRAMP in emacs. I figured out that in order for path resolution to > work I had to install perl in my remote user's path somehow. So, that&#x

GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-19 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello! I've been trying to access a remote GuixSD server I have running using TRAMP in emacs. I figured out that in order for path resolution to work I had to install perl in my remote user's path somehow. So, that's done. I can open up directories in dired, but when I try to open an individual

Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario

2016-03-28 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Alex Kost writes: > myglc2 (2016-03-27 20:18 +0300) wrote: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> >>> myglc2 writes: >>> >>>> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> Running all machines

Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario

2016-03-26 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
myglc2 writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > [...] >> >> Running all machines, I dunno. I do dual-boot Debian and GuixSD with >> them sharing the same user profile and store. > > Dual boot. Now that is cool! Dual booting allowed me to switch to GuixSD a

Re: Guix/GNU/Linux multi distro + GuixSD multi-site scenario

2016-03-26 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
myglc2 writes: > These are questions about a Guix user scenario I am contemplating. > > Situation: > > - I have installed Guix/Debian and GuixSD on a couple home servers > (behind a typical broadband router). > > - I am running Guix from a git checkout to which I have applied personal > patche

Re: What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?

2016-02-25 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Alex Kost writes: > Christopher Allan Webber (2016-02-25 03:30 +0300) wrote: > >> Heya all, >> >> I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't* >> your system or default user profile. >> >> guix package --profile=/h

What prevents "guix package --profile" profiles from being gc'ed?

2016-02-24 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Heya all, I'm a bit confused about profile management for profiles that *aren't* your system or default user profile. guix package --profile=/home/cwebber/guix-profiles/test -i hello then I run "guix gc", it seems like that profile is still kept around. David seemed to think that maybe the pr

Re: Screenshot GuixSD Gnome

2016-02-22 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Daniel Pimentel writes: > Guixs, > > Attach a file with a screenshot using Gnome-Shell and GuixSD. I believe > that Guix/GuixSD site should show a Gnome screenshot too. What you thing > about it? Send more screenshot using Gnome + GuixSD? > > Thanks and I sorry (I sent to guix-devel too, I sorry

Re: Any clue why $GUILE_LOAD_PATH not propagated with Haunt?

2016-02-14 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Thompson, David writes: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 5:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> "Thompson, David" skribis: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>>> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >>>> >>>

Re: Any clue why $GUILE_LOAD_PATH not propagated with Haunt?

2016-02-09 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Just for posterity, Dave helped me figure out what was wrong. I missed putting guile-2.0 in my inputs. Critical! Well, once I did that, things were fine!

Any clue why $GUILE_LOAD_PATH not propagated with Haunt?

2016-02-09 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello all, Since 8sync became a GNU project (yay!) I figured I should actually put a website together, and well... what better time to bust out Haunt? I wanted to make use of the Skribe reader, so I figured I'd make use of guix environment. Unfortunately, the file I put together doesn't work. Th

Re: guixsd on macbook

2016-01-24 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
白い熊@相撲道 writes: > On January 19, 2016 10:29:17 PM CET, ren...@openmailbox.org wrote: >>I've finished installing correctly GuixSD on macbook. > > Macbook's WiFi needs the proprietary Broadcom STA wireless drivers and > the video for X needs the proprietary Nvidia display driver. > > How did you ov

Re: moving /gnu to different disk

2016-01-13 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
carl hansen writes: > Rather than trying the following, I thought, "Why not ask first?" > > Due to the sizes of various hard disks in my machine, I want to move /gnu > to /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu > and then do > mount --bind /directoryondifferentdisk/gnu /gnu > > (I have already formed a supe