Re: Dovecot service configuration and logging

Hello, Gabriel. On Fri, 2025-08-01 at 23:08 +0200, Gabriel Wicki wrote: >  1. is it possible this service currently fails to produce logging? Dovecot used to write logs to /var/log/maillog by default. However, I've just noticed that the last message on my server is from March 9. I remember that t

Re: Radicale

Hello, Caleb. On Fri, 2025-08-01 at 16:02 -0500, Caleb Herbert wrote: > However, nothing shows up at or > . Radicale prints info messages to /var/log/messages by default, including which address and port it is listening on. You could look for those

Re: Guix pull with root user?

On Sun, 2025-03-23 at 10:04 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2025-03-23, Rutherther wrote: > > "Thomas Ieong" writes: > > > I have a guix system setup and I was wondering if it was > > > necessary to guix > > > pull from times to times with the root user. > > > > > > My understanding was that

Re: Guix pull with root user?

On Sun, 2025-03-23 at 10:04 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > At some point years ago the standard advice switched from "sudo -E > guix > system reconfigure ..." to "sudo guix system reconfigure ..." but > maybe > somewhere a regression was introduced, or it was subtle enough that > nobody noticed?

Re: adding Samba to config.scm

Hello, Gottfried! On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 12:58 +, gfp wrote: > It always says: > Benötigt: user-processes networking > English: user-processes networking is required > > what that means and what do I have to do - I don´t know That line is informational. It does not indicate an error. It says

Re: setting MTU for guix pull only

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:19:13 -0700 Andy Tai wrote: > when I do guix pull, I run into this error: > > guix substitute: error: TLS error in procedure > 'write_to_session_record_port': Error in the push function. As far as I understand, this error message indicates a network issue resulting in a c

Re: Flatpak and GNOME

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:37:10 +0100 Snikta wrote: > well with GNOME. The apps don't show up in the applications menu and > they are not visible on the top tool bar. I guess this is probably an > easy fix, but I'm not too familiar with neither Flatpak, GNOME nor Guix. > I guess one should set so

Re: MATE desktop

Hello, Gottfried. On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:49:19 + gfp wrote: > > It looks like > >> the issue has not been reported yet with the Guix issue tracker. > > Could you report it on a Guix issue tracker > because I don´t know how to do that? Here it is: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/76155 Reportin

Re: MATE desktop

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:21:15 + gfp wrote: > AFAI remember there was an app in the MATE desktop with the different > languages > and I was able to use the ancient greek symbols and letters. > > In Guix SD with MATE desktop there are not all symbols available. > AFAI remember in using Manjar

Re: switching layout in tty

Hello, Florian. On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:11:58 +0100 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > If your stuck console state is a real bug and not due to xoff/xon flow > control (i.e. Ctrl-S was pressed), then this is a bug with some software > used by Guix, maybe the Linux kernel, or with console-setup

Re: MATE desktop

Hello, Gottfried. On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:09:45 + gfp wrote: > I have the impression (I can´t say which ones at the moment) > and others also > (AFAI remember Avron mentioned it in Trisquel), > that in Guix > e.g. MATE desktop > has less Applications available > than MATE desktop in Trisquel

Re: Jekyll: Themes and Automated Deployment in Guix

Hello, Marek. On Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:38:38 +0100 Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > In return I would like to ask, how should I go about making the `#!/bin/bash` > line > of the bash script dynamic and responsive to the updates of Bash in Guix? I can comment on this one. That line, which is often refe

Re: GUIX_LOCPATH on Guix System

Hello Laurence On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 19:51:49 + Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Specific reference is made there to using the Guix package system on a > distribution other than Guix System, and that the host system locale > data will not be used. Given I'm using Guix System, have I done > something

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Hello On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:49:20 -0800 Felix Lechner wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22 2025, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > > add efi_pstore.pstore_disable=1 as a default kernel argument > > Thanks, Ephraim! Due to the recent explosion of traffic on the lists, I > am reluctant to add one more, but I like

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:26:13 -0500 "Leo Famulari" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025, at 15:17, Roman Riabenko wrote: > > Hello, Leo. > > > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:58:30 -0500 > > Leo Famulari wrote: > > > >> Okay, what should Guix do about this problem? > > > > Since I associate the problem with th

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Hello, Leo. On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:58:30 -0500 Leo Famulari wrote: > Okay, what should Guix do about this problem? Since I associate the problem with the default configuration of linux-libre package, it looks like I have to ask on their mailing list whether it is a good idea to set the followin

Re: bug#75211: guix system: error: kexec-load-file: Invalid argument

Hello, Jonathan. On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:06:57 +0100 indieterminacy wrote: > Unfortunately the Guix webpage responding to nathan_m is inaccessible: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/75402 The messages from that issue are also available in full at https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=75402

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Hello, Christophe. On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:43:27 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > Since the solution seems to take time to find, and since the temporary > solution of deleting the “dump” files on my device > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars doesn't work, I'm going to reinstall my > system before I get

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

Hello, Gottfried. On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 08:37:45 + gfp wrote: > But many signs are not displayed, because it says: > this sign is not included into "SANS" > So there are no options to choose different styles of writing. I do not think that it refers to the style of writing named "Sans". Instea

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Dear Felix On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:51:30 +0200 Roman Riabenko via wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:45:03 -0800 > Felix Lechner wrote: > > > Hi Roman, > > > > On Thu, Jan 09 2025, Roman Riabenko wrote: > > > > > some distributions turn this backend

Re: Libreoffice language

Hello, David. On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:02:19 +0100 David Lecompte wrote: > When I install LibreOffice in Guix SD, the menus are in English, unlike my > desktop environment, and when I look at language settings in LibreOffice, > only English is available. > > Are other languages available for Libre

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Hello, Tobias. On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:53:27 + Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > On 9 January 2025 21:45:03 UTC, Felix Lechner via wrote: > >EFI dump files exhaust space on the ESP. > > [PSA: the ESP is a FAT file system that stores .efi executables (usually, > boot loaders, but there's a Doom

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:45:03 -0800 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Roman, > > On Thu, Jan 09 2025, Roman Riabenko wrote: > > > some distributions turn this backend off by default to prevent users > > from getting into a trap. However, they seem to turn it off when > > packaging the software, not via

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:04:59 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > [env]$ efivar --list         do not report dumps files (cf. below) > > should I try logout and login (without rebooting)? I don't know. I don't think it will have any effect. It is UEFI that refuses to take a new variable. You need t

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:10:07 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > Le jeudi 09 janvier 2025 à 22:49 +0200, Roman Riabenko a écrit : > > > > > > Is the following console command correct? > > > sudo rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-type0-* > > > > Yes, this is the command that removes the dump files

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:42:28 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > Le jeudi 09 janvier 2025 à 22:24 +0200, Roman Riabenko a écrit : > > On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:15:22 +0100 > > Christophe Pisteur wrote: > > > > > I have 218 (!) files begninning with "dump": do I delete them all > > > without distinct

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:16:43 -0800 Felix Lechner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09 2025, Roman Riabenko via wrote: > > > To prevent dump files from filling up space, I disabled the pstore > > backend > > I think I want that, too. Did you submit a patch? While researching my is

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:15:22 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > I have 218 (!) files begninning with "dump": do I delete them all > without distinction?  Yes, that's what I did. To be more precise, they all seem to begin with dump-type0-... They are error logs. But I do not know how to use them

Re: Could not prepare Boot variable

Hello Christophe On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 20:01:55 +0100 Christophe Pisteur wrote: > Could not prepare Boot variable: No space left on device I also had this issue recently. The device here is not the boot partition. Instead, the device here is the EFI itself. Check whether you have any files begnin

Re: switching layout in tty

Hello Florian On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:11:58 +0100 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us,ua" > #:options '("grp:alt_shift_toggle"))) > > does work for me, although grp:shifts_toggle does not. Possibly > grp:shifts_toggle

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 02:39:25 + Luis Felipe wrote: > Roman, could it be that you're talking about "GNOME character map" > (whose command is gnome-character-map) instead of "GNOME Characters" > (gnome-characters)? Because the former does list characters by language, > and I see Greek in there.

Re: MATE desktop application "character map"

Hello Gottfried On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:08:37 + gfp wrote: > I also installed the Gnome characters app > but it doesn´t include the greek alphabet unfortunately. I see the Greek characters in my installation of GNOME characters in the current Guix System. The Greek alphabet is listed as a sep

IPP driverless printing

Hello I am trying to print a test page in GNOME Settings on an IPP printer. The printer automatically shows up in the printers panel. But clicking the test print button does nothing. This works on nother distribution. Do I need to configure something for driverless printing? Printing was selected

switching layout in tty

Hello I am trying to navigate my home directory on a tty console, for example after pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, on a Guix System with GNOME desktop. This requires utilising Latin and Cyrillic characters. I used the graphical install for the system installation and initially left the default Alt+Shift t

Re: D-Bus service files on foreign distributions

У чт, 2024-09-12 у 13:13 +0200, Nils Landt пише: > > > Roman Riabenko via hat am 11.09.2024 20:57 CEST > > geschrieben: > > > > У пн, 2024-08-26 у 10:27 +0200, Nils Landt пише: > > > > Roman Riabenko via hat am 25.08.2024 13:08 > > > > CEST

Re: D-Bus service files on foreign distributions

У пн, 2024-08-26 у 10:27 +0200, Nils Landt пише: > > Roman Riabenko via hat am 25.08.2024 13:08 CEST > > geschrieben: > > > > How to expose service files to D-Bus on a foreign distribution? > > I'm 100% guessing here, but I think systemd just doesn't s

D-Bus service files on foreign distributions

Hello How to expose service files to D-Bus on a foreign distribution? I installed gnome-text-editor with guix on a foreign distribution (PureOS byzantium). It would run from command line, but fail to start from the applications grid with the following error. $ journalctl -f сер 25 10:35:03 pureo

Re: 'static-networking' fails to start

Hello Fabio On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 16:05 +, Fabio Natali wrote: > I think I tried that (commenting out the default gateway part, which > might be picked up automatically by means of Router Advertisement > RA?). I'll definitely try again once in front of the machine and > update the bug report w

Re: Unlocking Gnome keychain in EXWM session

У сб, 2024-02-17 у 11:53 -0800, Ian Eure пише: > When I log into my EXWM session, it doesn’t unlock the Gnome > keychain.  This causes the first program I open which needs > something from the keychain to prompt me to unlock it. I use GNOME and observe the same behaviour. Maybe this issue in Gui

Re: mobile phone with LineageOS, iodeOS, Replicant...

Hello, Hipólita! У ср, 2024-01-10 у 08:14 -0300, Hipólita Yarona пише: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 4:45 PM Roman Riabenko via > wrote: > > У чт, 2023-12-21 у 11:42 +, Gottfried пише: > > > which mobile phone would You support with which free software? > > >

Re: mobile phone with LineageOS, iodeOS, Replicant...

Hi Gottfried У чт, 2023-12-21 у 11:42 +, Gottfried пише: > which mobile phone would You support with which free software? I have been using a Librem 5 device for the last five months. However, I only needed phone calls, SMS messages, and XMPP chats via Dino. I also developed a habit of consta

Re: Laptop won’t boot after Guix install

Hi Felix У вт, 2024-01-09 у 05:53 -0800, Felix Lechner пише: > On Mon, Jan 08 2024, Roman Riabenko via wrote: > > You might want to try enabling it [secure boot] > > I do not recommend Secure Boot for average Linux users. It tends to > create more problems and may not provid

Re: Laptop won’t boot after Guix install

У пт, 2024-01-05 у 19:41 -0800, Ian Eure пише: > ... After the Guix install, > the laptop doesn’t boot -- the firmware shows a boot device > selection menu, rather than bootint into Guix. ... Sometimes, the installer makes a BIOS-compatible installation which fails to run from UEFI. The fix migh

Re: Evolution can't connect to mail server

У чт, 2023-10-05 у 09:29 -0700, Caleb Herbert пише: > Guix System, GNOME. > > Configured email in Settings > Online Accounts > IMAP and SMTP. > > Launched Evolution. Set up email with startup wizard. > > Error: > > The name org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources5 was not provided by > any .ser

Re: Git error: object not found when running guix system reconfigure

У нд, 2023-09-24 у 14:02 +0200, Sergiu Ivanov пише: > > Does this happen to anyone else? > > > > Do you think it is something transient which I just have to wait > > out, > > or > > did I accidentally break something on my machine? (unfair question, > > obviously :D) Hi, Sergiu. A few more users

URLs of substitutes

Hello Is it possible to get a URL for a substitute, for example for the Linux kernel? I am trying to troubleshoot connection to a substitute sever with my tunnel broker, which is slow for this server for some reason and eventually times out when running `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm`.

Re: How to delete per-user profiles

У сб, 2023-08-26 у 09:13 +0300, Roman Riabenko пише: > У пт, 2023-08-25 у 17:01 -0300, Jorge пише: > > I have removed (via Gnome Settings) user `jorge-morais' from my > > Gentoo GNU/Linux system, but its Guix profiles remain.   > > If you only remove a user from GNOME Settings without removing it

Re: How to delete per-user profiles

У пт, 2023-08-25 у 17:01 -0300, Jorge пише: > I have removed (via Gnome Settings) user `jorge-morais' from my Gentoo GNU/Linux system, but its Guix profiles remain.   If you only remove a user from GNOME Settings without removing it from the system configuration file, the user will re-appear in GN