Re: PdfLatex and LuaLatex are slow

Hi Mario, Mario Forzanini [2023-10-20T11:49:05+0300]: > Hello everyone, > > I recently started to use TeX on Guix but I noticed that compiling > documents is really slow, as most of the time is spent > loading packages. I used to have similar symptoms last summer, which is well summarized here:

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

Hi Simon, Simon Tournier [2023-09-25T12:57:54+0200]: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 at 08:32, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > >> Deleting /root/.cache/guix/checkouts allowed me to bypass the >> issue indeed. > > Yes. The culprit was ’reference-available?’ and removing the checkout >

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

Thank Jussi and Roman for your answers! Deleting /root/.cache/guix/checkouts allowed me to bypass the issue indeed. - Sergiu Roman Riabenko [2023-09-24T15:13:36+0200]: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > У нд, 2023-09-24 у 14:02 +0200, Sergiu Ivanov пише: >> > Does this happen

Git error: object not found when running guix system reconfigure

Hi, I am running into the following issue since yesterday: when I do guix pull sudo guix system reconfigure I get ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: Git error: object not found - no match for id (0792d9946602a54a5318f7818cfe3307e9ef333d) The full error message is at the

Re: make check never finishes

Hi Soren, I received your E-mail two times from help-guix@gnu.org, with these timestamps: Tue, 16 May 2023 14:54:21 -0600 (18 hours, 46 minutes, 37 seconds ago) Wed, 17 May 2023 06:54:34 -0700 (1 hour, 46 minutes, 38 seconds ago) So your messages are received and delivered to the list. Maybe so

Re: to enable all profiles at login time

menu. - Sergiu > thanks very much > > Kind regards > > Gottfried > > > Am 20.04.23 um 12:20 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: >> Hi Gottfried, >> Gottfried [2023-04-20T12:11:16+0200]: >>> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] >>> Hi, >>> >>> I

Re: to enable all profiles at login time

s the window manager). - Sergiu > Am 17.04.23 um 20:32 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: >> Hi Gottfried, >> I have nothing to add about your main question but : >> Gottfried [2023-04-17T14:45:28+0200]: >>> How do you create this screenshot with the red arrow? >> I use F

Re: to enable all profiles at login time

Hi Gottfried, I have nothing to add about your main question but : Gottfried [2023-04-17T14:45:28+0200]: > How do you create this screenshot with the red arrow? I use Flameshot, which comes in the package aptly named flameshot. This program lets you choose the part of the screen to capture, an

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hello Luis Felipe, Luis Felipe [2023-03-12T19:13:54+0100]: > In fact, the Guix manual says: "The normal way to change the system > configuration is by updating this file [a file like the > production-os.scm] and re-running ‘[sudo] guix system reconfigure’.  > One should never have to touch files

Re: redshift

Hi Gottfried, Gottfried [2023-03-11T17:47:19+0100]: > I got a message from Julen Lepiller that reshift is a guix-home-service-type > so I can’t use it in guix system. > > Have you got guix home and redshift there in your config.scm? > > I don’t have guix home, > so can I use redshift? guix home

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hi SeerLite, SeerLite [2023-03-12T00:42:42+0100]: > On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov > wrote: >>Gottfried [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]: >>> >>> because of my limited knowledge >>> when opening my config.scm file with sudo >>>

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hi Gottfried, Gottfried [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]: > > because of my limited knowledge > when opening my config.scm file with sudo > I can do it only with nano The strategy I personally prefer is to edit a file in my home directory and then sudo cp to /etc/config.scm. More concretely, I store

Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?

Hi Gary, Gary Johnson [2023-02-21T16:33:25+0100]: > 2023/02/10 23:40, Sergiu Ivanov: >> >> Could someone point me to an example of how I should update >> my configuration? > > I just went through this exercise myself, and I decided to keep my > extra /etc/hosts e

Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?

Hi Bruno and Remco, Thank you for your messages and sorry for the delay with the answer. Bruno Victal [2023-02-21T17:45:09+0100]: > Hi Remco, > > On 2023-02-11 11:46, Remco van 't Veer wrote: >>(hosts-service-type config => >>(cons* (host "some.ip.address.1"

Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?

Hi Bruno, hi Remco, Thank you very much for your suggestions! Remco van 't Veer [2023-02-11T12:46:35+0100]: > 2023/02/10 23:40, Sergiu Ivanov: >> >> Could someone point me to an example of how I should update >> my configuration? > > In the guix man

Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?

Hello Guix, I am reconfiguring my system right now, and guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm tells me this: /etc/config.scm:126:27: warning: 'local-host-aliases' is deprecated, use 'local-host-entries' instead /etc/config.scm:126:27: warning: 'local-host-aliases' is deprecated, use 'local-ho

Packaging pulsectl: check phase fails starting/communicating with PulseAudio

Hello, I am trying to update volctl [0]—a GTK package for showing a systray sound icon—to the latest version. It used to depend on pulseaudio, but now it seems to rather rely on pulsectl [1]. So, I am trying to package pulsectl. I ran guix import pypi pulsectl, and then adapted the patch phase

Re: Error using gcc with trivial-build-system

Hi, I have little experience with Guix packages, but I ran into a similar issue using guix shell --pure recently, and I believe that you need to add glibc to your dependencies. I suppose that guix shell works for you because you already have glibc available in the active profile. I'd expect guix

Re: How to use/install rust nightly on guix ?

Hi, Until a couple weeks ago this channel used to work: https://github.com/paulalesius/guix-rust but apparently the author abandoned it for now. Maybe you could reuse (part of) their work. - Sergiu Mohamed Amine LEGHERABA via [2022-10-29T14:29:26+0200]: > Hello guys, > Any ideas for the bes

Re: Trivia question: What does the "G" in G-expressions stand for?

"(" [2022-09-26T17:31:03+0200]: > On Mon Sep 26, 2022 at 9:48 AM BST, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> No, it stands for “G”, just like the “s” in “s-expression” stands for >> nothing (AFAIK). :-) > > Don't quote me on this, but i'm pretty sure it originally stood > for "symbolic" (so "symbolic expressi

Re: Combine locales

Hi Fredrik, Fredrik Salomonsson [2022-09-25T01:35:12+0200]: > > One thing I cannot figure out is how to setup the operating-system to > use English as the language but use Swedish for the date format. Similar > to what is described in Locale Names[0] in the libc manual. > > I.e. on my foreign dis

Re: mcron <3 offlineimap

Hi, zimoun [2022-09-21T10:31:45+0200]: > On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 10:45, jgart wrote: > >> has anyone tried running offlineimap on a(n) (m)cron? > > No. And I switched from offlineimap to isync (mbsync) for some parts. > And to public-inbox (so Git) for other parts. Same thing here (sans public-

Re: Jitsi Meet Screen Sharing with Ungoogled-Chromium

Yasuaki Kudo [2022-01-16T10:46:58+0100]: > Is there anyone here who uses Jitsi Meet to share screens from Guix? Let me > know! > > At least in version 90 of chromium (third party, not a guix package), it used > to work. > > With the current ungoogled-chromium on Guix, the moment someone else co

Interacting with an issue on the issue tracker

Hi, I ran into https://issues.guix.gnu.org/52585 on my Guix System. I therefore sent an E-mail to 52...@debbugs.gnu.org , as suggested on the page, in which I give some more details about the issue. Is this the proper way to interact with an issue on the issue tracker? Should I CC bug-g...@gnu.o

Re: gnupg 2.2.29 -> 2.2.30 breaks symmetric decryption (and gpg-agent?)

Leo Famulari [2021-12-26T23:45:23+0100]: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 02:31:01PM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have just upgraded my Guix home on a Guix System, which took gnupg >> from 2.2.29 to 2.2.30. When I run gpg -v --decrypt on a file with >>

Re: Build of vte-ng-0.58.2.a fails (dependency of termite)

Efraim Flashner [2021-12-27T09:21:35+0100]: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 05:39:31PM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Installing termite has been failing for me since last week, because of >> a build failure in vte-ng:

Build of vte-ng-0.58.2.a fails (dependency of termite)

Hello, Installing termite has been failing for me since last week, because of a build failure in vte-ng: building /gnu/store/mrv5jmw59zzgpzc4p2rl3n2fvmggcc5b-vte-ng-0.58.2.a.drv... 0% 'install' [

gnupg 2.2.29 -> 2.2.30 breaks symmetric decryption (and gpg-agent?)

Hi, I have just upgraded my Guix home on a Guix System, which took gnupg from 2.2.29 to 2.2.30. When I run gpg -v --decrypt on a file with symmetric encryption, I get the following error: scolobb@quark ~/tmp$ gpg -v --decrypt world.gpg gpg: AES.CFB encrypted data gpg: no running gpg-agent - sta

Re: Installing file outside package in /etc

Hi, Thus quoth Utkarsh Singh on Wed Apr 28 2021 at 13:02 (+0200): > Hi, > > On 2021-04-24, 16:44 +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > >> Note however that /etc/hostname appearing to be a normal file may be >> misleading, since it may also be a hardlink to a file in the s

Re: Installing file outside package in /etc

Hi, Guix beginner here. Thus quoth phodina via on Sat Apr 24 2021 at 11:30 (+0200): > I'm creating a package for application which needs to install file > outside of the derivation directory. > > The file in question is /etc/sudoers.d but it can be generalized for > other things like udev etc.

Re: [Guix System] Can't run VM script because of KVM kernel module permission

Thus quoth Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski on Fri Apr 02 2021 at 11:39 (+0200): > Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 11:36 +0200, Mathieu Othacehe a écrit : >> Are you part of the "kvm" group yourself? >> >> Mathieu > > Hi Mathiue ! > > I tried to add myself to the group using : > > $ sudo usermod -a -G kvm je

lualatex doesn't find libzzip-0.so.13 (easy bug?)

Hello, I have trouble running lualatex from the TeX Live distribution (package texlive) : $ lualatex /home/scolobb/.guix-profile/bin/lualatex: error while loading shared libraries: libzzip-0.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I installed the zziplib package which b

Re: Start Xorg server using xinit manually

Thus quoth Bone Baboon on Tue Mar 23 2021 at 04:22 (+0100): > Gary Johnson writes: > >> I run EXWM under Guix System. > > It is good to hear that someone else is able to successfully use EXWM > with Guix. I also started using EXWM recently and it works without any issues for me (actually it wo

Re: cannot "guix pull"

you very much for taking your time! > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 09:27:12AM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> Thus quoth Leo Famulari on Sat Mar 20 2021 at 23:10 (+0100): >> > $ guix describe >> >> Generation 5Mar 16 2021 10:31:09(current) >> [blurred] &g

Re: cannot "guix pull"

- Sergiu > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 09:37:22PM +0100, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> I am getting the same error consistently since yesterday. >> >> - >> Sergiu >> >> >> Thus quoth Patricio Martínez on Sat Mar 20 2021 at 20:00 (+0100): >> > The sam

Re: cannot "guix pull"

I am getting the same error consistently since yesterday. - Sergiu Thus quoth Patricio Martínez on Sat Mar 20 2021 at 20:00 (+0100): > The same to me. > > It's not your conection, maybe a problems on the server. I don't know, > but try later > > Andreas Enge writes: > >> Hello Adam, >> >> Am

Re: Appimage: cannot run binary file

Hi Christophe, Thus quoth Christophe Pisteur on Thu Feb 11 2021 at 13:53 (+0100): > Le jeudi 11 février 2021 à 05:25 +0100, raingloom a écrit : >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 19:59:17 +0100Tobias Geerinckx-Rice > > wrote: >> > Instead, I strongly recommend writing your own Guix package (using >> > inher

Re: How to use pflask?

Thus quoth Sergiu Ivanov on Mon Feb 01 2021 at 22:01 (+0100): > Hello, > > I installed pflask in the system profile and I tried running it without > any additional configuration: > > # pflask -u scolobb > [✘] write(gid_map): Operation not permitted > [✘] Child faile

How to use pflask?

Hello, I installed pflask in the system profile and I tried running it without any additional configuration: # pflask -u scolobb [✘] write(gid_map): Operation not permitted [✘] Child failed with code '1' How do you use pflask on Guix? In the meantime, I'll check out LXC. - Sergiu

Re: Emacs Guix and channels

Hi simon, Thus quoth zimoun on Mon Jan 25 2021 at 13:47 (+0100): > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 at 20:32, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > >> I am moving to Guix after 4 years of using Nix, mainly because Guix is >> Lisp-based and Emacs friendly, and because I love the documentation. > &g

Re: Defining custom services in /etc/config.scm

Hi Carlo, Thanks a lot for your answer ! Thus quoth Carlo Zancanaro on Sun Jan 24 2021 at 23:25 (+0100): > On Mon, Jan 25 2021, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: >> I understand that I should somehow construct a (?) from my >> , but I don't see a way to do it. > > Unfortunate

Re: Defining custom services in /etc/config.scm

Hi Ekaitz, Thank you for your very fast answer! Thus quoth Ekaitz Zarraga on Sun Jan 24 2021 at 20:19 (+0100): > > I recently made my redshift configuration using shepherd user > services, which is what people in IRC recommended me. > > You can find it here: > https://github.com/ekaitz-zarraga

Defining custom services in /etc/config.scm

Hello, I'm trying to start redshift [0] as a shepherd service, and this is how I defined the redshift service in my /etc/config.scm: (define evry-geolocation "48.63681:2.42777") (define redshift-service (shepherd-service (provision '(redshift)) (requirement '(xorg-server)) (documentati

Re: Emacs Guix and channels

Thus quoth Joshua Branson on Thu Jan 21 2021 at 21:20 (+0100): > Sergiu Ivanov writes: > >> Hi John, >> Tell me how I can help. >> >> I picked up Guix a couple of weeks ago and my Elisp programming >> experience is quite limited, but I may still be useful :-

Re: Emacs Guix and channels

Hi John, Thus quoth John Soo on Thu Jan 21 2021 at 17:12 (+0100): > Hi Sergiu, > > > As far as I understand it, that is bug in emacs-guix, apologies. Absolutely no worries: I can live with running Guix commands in ansi-term for quite a while. > There is certainly a lot to fix. Tell me

Emacs Guix and channels

Hello Guix Masters, I am moving to Guix after 4 years of using Nix, mainly because Guix is Lisp-based and Emacs friendly, and because I love the documentation. Speaking of Emacs, I ran into the following problem. I use an additional channel which I add in /etc/guix/channels.scm (I also tried sym