Re: Mounting ntfs filesytems

2024-10-23 Thread William via
Hello. I faced the same issues back in March[0], the problem is that ntfs-3g is required to mount the filesystem with read/write support, but if you define an entry on the system configuration it'll stop the boot process, I don't have much clue as to why it hangs the boot process but I suspect

Re: Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-22 Thread William
On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:53:51 -0700 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi William, > > On Sun, Apr 21 2024, William wrote: > > > I ran e2fsck, lsblk, blkid and fdisk on a booted system to verify > > that everything is fine with these partitions, no sign of anything > > unusal.

Re: Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-21 Thread William
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:21:52 -0700 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi William, > > On Fri, Apr 12 2024, William wrote: > > > What could be causing this behavior? > > Maybe the GRUB module for that particular file system was not loaded > (or was not found). Please have

Re: Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-12 Thread William
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:04:31 +0800 宋文武 wrote: > The error seems from "search --fs-uuid --set > d757ca6e-ae43-41b7-bc73-7e80cd270e05" > > You can press 'c' in the GRUB to enter its command line, and then run > 'ls -l' to see if it actually find a partition with the correct UUID. > Maybe the UUID

Adding a menu entry on GRUB.

2024-04-11 Thread William
Hello. I'm currently trying to add a menu entry on GRUB through the Guix system declaration to boot another GNU+Linux system but I don't have much clue how to do it with this setup. The other system currently has three partitions, one for "/boot", one for "/" and one for "/home", I tried defining

Re: Inconsistency between resolved issues/patches and source files.

2024-04-08 Thread William
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 11:21:33 -0700 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2024-03-21, William wrote: > > A few days ago I tried reencoding several video files I have laying > > around to save storage, using libsvtav1 through ffmpeg, and then to > > my surprise (and frustration) I

Inconsistency between resolved issues/patches and source files.

2024-03-21 Thread William
Hello. A few days ago I tried reencoding several video files I have laying around to save storage, using libsvtav1 through ffmpeg, and then to my surprise (and frustration) I realized that ffmpeg distributed by GNU/Guix does not include such encoding library. I checked the issue tracker and found

Re: Is it normal for `guix pull` to be slow?

2024-03-17 Thread William
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 23:04:16 +0800 rczb wrote: > Installing a package with Guix shows a normal speed, while invoking > `guix pull` does not. Is it normal, or due to my own environment? > > # Networking > > Education network in Mainland China. Specify > `https://mirror.sjtu.edu.cn/git/guix.git

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-07 Thread William
On Thu, 07 Mar 2024 06:41:38 -0800 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi William, > > On Mon, Mar 04 2024, William wrote: > > > the issue is ... ntfs-3g relying on the external FUSE to mount > > partitions. > > I am not sure but please consider that GNU Guix relies on absolu

Re: Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-06 Thread William
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:38:50 +1100 Carlo Zancanaro wrote: > Hi William, > > I don't know anything about Grub chainloading, but I had a quick look > and I think I have a vague idea what's going on. > > The menu entry is put together by this code in > gn

Re: Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-06 Thread William
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:54:24 +0100 William wrote: > Hello. > > I currently have two GNU/Linux installs on this PC on two different > SSDs with their own GRUB, Guix and Debian. > Both SSDs have an MBR partition table, no GPT/EFI. > > I've been trying to add a menu

Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-05 Thread William
Hello. I currently have two GNU/Linux installs on this PC on two different SSDs with their own GRUB, Guix and Debian. Both SSDs have an MBR partition table, no GPT/EFI. I've been trying to add a menu entry to chain-load Debian from the Guix GRUB menu but it doesn't seem to work as intended, upon

Re: Cannot lock screen in lxqt desktop

2024-03-05 Thread William via
11:52:44 UTC, Reza Housseini wrote: >Hi William > >Thanks for your response! > >> Did you add the boolean value to enable a PAM entry and disable the >> setuid entry? Screenlockers usually refuse or complain when started with >> setuid due to security. > >

Re: Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-04 Thread William
On Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:15:56 -0800 Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi William, > > It seems that help-guix was inadvertently left off of the recipients. > I hope you don't mind that I copied the mailing list on your > response. > > On Sun, Mar 03 2024, William wrote: >

Configuring mount for NTFS partition at boot makes the system unbootable.

2024-03-03 Thread William
Hello. I've been trying for the past few days to get this done properly with no success. I have a drive with a partition that is unfortunately formatted on NTFS, and I'd like to auto-mount it at boot time, since my home user has several symlinks that point to it. I've tried defining a file-syste

Re: Cannot lock screen in lxqt desktop

2024-03-02 Thread William
On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 11:28:45 +0100 Reza Housseini wrote: > Hi Guixers > > When I click "Lock Screen" in the desktop menu I get a popup with the > warning > >Failed to run "xdg-screensaver lock". Ensure you have a > locker/screensaver compatible with xdg-screensaver installed and > running.

Re: Help creating custom channel

2021-04-27 Thread William
Hi, If removing "(expanse packages sterm)" from sterm.scm doesn't work you could define expanse as a module in expanse/expanse/packages.scm: (define-module (expanse packages) #:use-module (gnu packages)) On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 12:05, Julien Lepiller wrote: > > Hi, > > Are you sure expanse/p

Re: xmonad, xmonad-contrib & GHC_PACKAGE_PATH?

2021-04-21 Thread William
Thanks both of you! This works for me: (use-modules (gnu) (gnu packages commencement) (guix profiles)) (use-package-modules haskell haskell-xyz wm gcc) (packages->manifest (list gcc-toolchain ghc ghc-hostname ghc-xmonad-contrib xmonad)) and then xmonad --recompile Just W

xmonad, xmonad-contrib & GHC_PACKAGE_PATH?

2021-04-20 Thread William
Hi all! I'm trying to get xmonad to run, here's what I've tried: I created a desktop profile for my user with: (specifications->manifest '("xmonad" "ghc-xmonad-contrib" "ghc-hostname")) I have "source .../desktop/etc/profile" and "exec xmonad" in my .xinitrc and an xmonad config in ~/.xmonad/xmon