Re: Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Felix Lechner
s, I like writing "It was merged into 'history'." Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Garbage Collector

2022-07-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
ns (list "--gc-keep-derivations=yes" "--gc-keep-outputs=yes")) ... Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
s, I like writing "It was merged into 'history'." Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: German language mistake in the answer if I do a : guix package --upgrade --dry-run

2022-09-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 2:29 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > In the first sentence “würde” is the Konjunktiv II form of “werden”, > whereas “würde” + inf. verb in the > second sentence is a pattern to avoid modification of the verb. It's a tiny point to spend words on but I agree with Ricardo's

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

2022-09-26 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:23 AM Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > maybe somebody just invented "symbolic" for s We too could attach a meaning. G-exp might stand for "glue" expression, for example. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: can not boot again VM with tails

2022-09-28 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 7:21 AM Gottfried wrote: > > No bootable device. Do you perhaps need something like this? (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" ; Needed to find the disk %base-initrd-modules)) More information may be available here. [1] Kind regards F

Re: EDOPro can't load libpthread.so.0

2022-10-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Mario, On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 5:46 PM wrote: > > > PS. I tried to launch EDOPro with ./EDOPro . In Bash, I might try LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.guix-profile/lib ./EDOPro Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Connection refused to Guix-hosted SSH

2022-10-13 Thread Felix Lechner via
I would also have a look at the output of fgrep -i ssh /var/log/messages on the server. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html

Re: Connection refused to Guix-hosted SSH

2022-10-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
/gnu/store, however tempting it may appear. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Connection refused to Guix-hosted SSH

2022-10-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
0.0.1 port 33818 on 127.0.0.1 port rdomain "" Do you have reverse DNS configured? For example, please see here https://serverfault.com/questions/206365/ssh-reverse-dns-lookup Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Trouble with nfs mount

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
#x27;. That would confirm that your fstab entry is working. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Guitar-to-USB cable in Guix System

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
rst. The special purpose guitar cables seem to be very similar but they are only an input device and not paired with an output, which can cause setup confusion as described here. [2] They seem to work on Linux Mint, however [3] which probably means Guix, as well. Hope that helps! Kind regards Feli

Re: Trouble with nfs mount

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
annot be of more help. I currently also mount all my NFS volumes manually, and would like to do it automatically, too. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-10-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
nsion features? Some Wifi cards do not wake up properly and require a reload of the kernel module. You can try unloading manually with 'modprobe -r'. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: export LC_ALL=C

2022-10-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
cribed here and is therefore often preferred, despite its weird name. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Guix package manager installed

2022-10-30 Thread Felix Lechner via
could also say good-bye to your host OS and switch to the Guix System. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-10-31 Thread Felix Lechner via
rts by Shepherd (or perhaps GNOME). I hadn't used SFLPhone in a long time and registered on Jami now. (My uid is lechner.) It looks totally different. Let's see if the program gives me any trouble on the wired interface. Also, I am not using GNOME. Maybe that yields some more data points

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 11:26 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Error unbound variable in cups... For question #1: Do you need (use-modules (gnu services cups)) ? Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 12:14 PM Gottfried wrote: > > I added this service, but it didn't help. Please try it without hplip first. (service cups-service-type (cups-configuration (web-interface? #true))) Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
e cups-service-type is defined there [1] and also exported from there. [2] Hope this helps. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix/blob/d0917d778284ee7d70bc80b0538e3b4ae67870f4/gnu/services/cups.scm#L1026-L1060 [2] https://github.com/guix-mi

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
ckaged in Guix. More importantly, I believe there are significant hurdles to packaging because there are so many paths to replace. Hope that helps. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-11-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
h9k kernel module. This can be done with 'modprobe' or, more aggressively, with 'insmod' and 'rmmod'. I once had a Wifi card, also an Atheros, that needed to be unloaded when my system was suspended via ACPI. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: EFI boot: 'could not prepare Boot variable: Invalid argument'

2022-11-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
anually link the EFI image you wish to load via the "removable media path". A third option that I have used is to load your kernel directly via its EFI stub. The two latter options may require further help from this list and lots of patience. They also carry a higher risk of failure. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: EFI boot: 'could not prepare Boot variable: Invalid argument'

2022-11-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
used that program to boot into a Linux kernel via its EFI stub, but it is my least favorite option. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: guix builds the old guix version

2022-11-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
o run something like 'guix environment guix' followed by './bootstrap' and './configure --localstatedir=/var'. After a 'make' you can then issue commands like './pre-inst-env guix build guix' (or any other package from Git). Hope that helps. Ki

Re: Regex Rules

2022-11-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
xpressions (PCRE), which are more powerful but older. From the 'grep' manual page (see the -E switch): "In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning". Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX-Extended_Regular_Expressions

Re: RedShift

2022-11-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Raghav, On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 6:48 AM Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > Do you happen to have an example for redshift with geoclue? If I traveled that much, I would put away my laptop and enjoy the scenery. :) Kind regards Felix Lechner (P.S.) I use redshift with fixed coordinates.

Re: RedShift

2022-11-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
arnest list. Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: RedShift

2022-11-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
uot;))) Hope that helps! Kind regards Felix Lechner * * * (use-modules (gnu home services desktop)) (service home-redshift-service-type (home-redshift-configuration (location-provider 'manual) ;; Fremont, Calif. (latitude 37.5) (longitude -122.0)))

Re: Problem with 'guix system reconfigure ... ' ?

2022-11-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
bstitution server. It is therefore recommended to explicitly specify the use of the substitution server the first time you reconfigure your system:" Hope that helps! Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: How to setup custom keyboard layout ?

2022-11-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
ently not possible to use them. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: build all dependents?

2022-11-22 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:07 PM jgart wrote: > > is there a command to build all dependents I struggle regularly with the terminology used in software distributions. Perhaps someone appreciates my favorite act of civil disobedience: I use "prerequisites" to talk about packages required by th

Re: Guix SD and Emacs

2022-11-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 12:59 PM Wolf wrote: > > (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory)) > (load-file custom-file) My init file also looks like that. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Few questions regarding the installation

2022-12-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
the store item may be different. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
w our functional package manager rendered one of Guile's original design goals incompatible with Guix—but upon reflection I probably would not want it any other way. Sorry I cannot be more helpful. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/guile-tut/tutorial.html#Backend

Re: grub-install failing while system reconfigure

2023-01-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
x27;efivars' to 'efivarfs'. (Please note the extra letter 'F'.) It is possible that our version of Grub is not yet compatible with the new kernel module or that the efivarfs file system was not mounted as described here, when Grub ran. [2] Kind regards Felix Lech

Re: Intel i7-1165G7 vulnerable to Spectre v2

2023-02-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
e". Thanks for helping to make Guix better (and safer) for everyone! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1807.3/00923.html [2] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/how-to-enable-ibrs-support-4175671384/

Re: resize of harddisk space for Virtualisation

2023-02-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:07 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Is another process using the image [/var/lib/libvirt/images/Trisquel.qcow2]? You may be able to investigate more with the command 'lsof'. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Coreboot,T440P & GUIX installer

2023-02-22 Thread Felix Lechner via
already in Guix (or in the installer) I do not believe your BIOS plays any role in your technical issues. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: attempt to scan in Guix

2023-02-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
NE database [1] for your device and use libsane directly. Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html

Re: attempt to scan in Guix

2023-02-26 Thread Felix Lechner via
tation. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: How to handle concurrent QT versions

2023-03-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Alexander, On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 12:23 AM Alexander Asteroth wrote: > > I guess I either need to make them into guix packages or let them run in > the old guix environment they were build in, right? I believe you are right (but I am new here). Happy hacking! Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
basic tools like 'find' available. Perhaps you can run the absolute path from the store. find /run/current-system/ -follow -printf "" Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://serverfault.com/questions/265598/how-do-i-find-circular-symbolic-links/265614#265614

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
not believe it is the source of your problems. I would keep looking around your profile, which are the symbolic links into the store that provide a traditional file system layout for user interactions. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: Newbie question: How to disable pager in "guix search"?

2023-03-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Rodrigo, On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 11:53 AM Rodrigo Morales wrote: > > | (setenv "EDITOR" "emacsclient") I keep the small Guile script below in ~/.config/editor/always-emacs and set EDITOR to that (in init.el). Kind regards Felix Lechner * * * #!/

Re: Grub installation and configuration

2023-03-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
he desired Grub version by the user? Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Roman, On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 7:32 AM Roman Scherer wrote: > > Right now I rolled back to generation 53, which is still > working. Great! > Is it correct to look for the problematic files in the directory to > which system-54-link links to? Yes, probably. Unfortunately, profiles are large

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

2023-03-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi everyone, On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:43 PM SeerLite wrote: > > sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm As a user of a FUSE-encrypted file system for my home folder (I use Gocryptfs) I cannot execute the command above. After some experimentation, I settled on using 'gu

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

2023-03-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
many small executables in each driver. They have to be patched individually with absolute paths. A dedicated individual could make a great difference there. Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: image converter and resizer

2023-03-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
learning GIMP, if you haven't. It's great! Kind regards Felix Lechner

Re: image converter and resizer

2023-03-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Actually, Felipe knows a lot more about images in Guix. He designed most of the artwork for Guix. All of it is exceptional! It is Gottfried's privilege, dear Felipe, to receive your response; and mine to have a modest piece of advice to be confirmed so quickly by an expert! Gottfried, meet Felipe

Re: Setting link file permission in home-files-service-type

2023-03-19 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 5:57 PM c4droid wrote: > > I'm changing my mailing workflow [...] to fdm + msmtp + mutt, I used msmtp for a while but discovered OpenSMTPd after switching to Guix. Never looked back. It's a lovely email program. No pressure, but below is a config if you'd like to tr

Re: Need help packaging IUP (part 1: IM)

2023-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib" "/gnu/store/p7iq81hxxyk9zy7a9dngbf16zm8d4klx-libpng-1.6.37/lib" "/gnu/store/8qv5kb2fgm4c3bf70zcg9l6hkf3qzpw9-zlib-1.2.11/lib" "/gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/../../..") Kind re

Re: Intel 13700k iGPU not recognised

2023-03-20 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Erik, On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:12 PM Erik Giorgis wrote: > > Hi > > I installed guix on a new system, and would like to use Hyprland with it. I > already have Hyprland working on an older laptop. > However, on this new system I get an error that the iGPU is not supported by > mesa. It look

Re: Intel 13700k iGPU not recognised

2023-03-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-S UHD > Graphics (rev 04) Are you running the linux-libre kernel, which is the default kernel in Guix? Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: Intel 13700k iGPU not recognised

2023-03-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Erik, On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:07 AM Erik Giorgis wrote: > > But my lspci output looked similar on Guix on the non-libre Linux 6.2.7 Sorry, I wasn't thinking straight and got confused with dmesg output. Which version of pciutils are you using on the other distro, please? Guix is still on p

Re: Intel 13700k iGPU not recognised

2023-03-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Erik, On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:18 AM Erik Giorgis wrote: > > It's 3.8, that explains the different output then. The output from pciutils is secondary, but I am sorry about the experience you've had so far. As the owner of new equipment, you may find the Repology website helpful. It can hel

Re: Newbie: How to transfer built binaries between Guix systems in the same LAN network?

2023-04-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Rodrigo, On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:39 PM Rodrigo Morales wrote: > > How to transfer built packages from one system from another? I cross-publish my stores locally via port 4849 (which spells G-U-I-X). [1][2] Hope that works for you, too! Kind regards, Felix Lechner [1] https://codebe

PSA for RAID users in Guix System (mdadm)

2023-04-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
script that can be used for this purpose on Debian [4] does not appear to be available in Guix. I may transcribe it into GNU Guile if there is broader interest in our community. I would be happy to hear everyone's thoughts. I have only used Guix for a year and maintained mdadm in Debian. Kind

Re: nautilus-admin

2023-04-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
can make such storage available to a user who is logged in. Have you looked into gvfs? [1] FUSE stands for "file system in user space." [2] Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/kn-in/red_hat_ente

Re: Is it possible to system reconfigure from a local guix git?

2023-04-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Denis, On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 4:16 PM Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > > But I didn't find a way to make sudo and pre-inst-env work together. There probably is a way but due to a home folder that is a FUSE filesystem, I cannot use sudo at all. I use 'guix deploy' [1] even though there are som

PSA for LUKS users

2023-04-19 Thread Felix Lechner via
boot after you follow the steps since I do not use LUKS personally. Stay safe! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html

Re: Thinkpad x60s -Guix System nach der Installation

2023-04-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Joseph, On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 9:05 PM wrote: > > Hallo, > > Leider lässt sich keine Anwendung außer der Thunar-Dateiverwaltung > öffnen. Dieses Problem hatte ich mal, als mein Login keine Zugriffsrechte auf meinen "Home" Folder hatte. > Nicht einmal ein Text-Editor ist vorinstalliert. In

Re: Identifying cause of local package build

2023-05-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Skyler, On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 5:19 AM Skyler via wrote: > > The only thing that requires this variant of inkscape is dblatex. I believe your issue arises elsewhere—either with a different variant of dblatex that is not requested via your use of 'guix shell', or a completely different package

Re: how can I solve those messages after running guix pull

2023-05-04 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 11:12 PM Gottfried wrote: > > |warning: 'texlive-latex-tools' is deprecated, use 'texlive-tools' instead I believe those messages were introduced by the core-updates merge, but they are harmless. Andreas Enge wrote about them earlier on this list. [1] Kind r

Re: rollback

2023-05-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 8:24 AM Gottfried wrote: > > AFAIU this command rolls back "guix pull" and the guix system wide updates. I think the system roll-back only moves your current system generation back by one. You still have to reboot. You can also boot into the older generation

Re: Error: File System With Given Label Not Found

2023-05-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 6:52 AM Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > > (device (file-system-label "izumi-esp")) That configuration option expects a file system label (and not a partition label). You can see the difference with the command 'blkid'. > $ ls /dev/disk/by-partlabel/ > izumi-esp iz

Re: rollback

2023-05-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Julien, On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 5:34 AM Julien Lepiller wrote: > > This is the right command. It rolls back the system generation only, not the > guix pull profile, which would be rolled back with "guix pull —roll-back". > You don't need to roll it back though, only the system profile where M

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 5:12 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Am I the only one who has MATE-Desktop? There are surely others besides you. (For example, I think the Linux creator may use it, although not on Guix.) It would make sense to wait for more responses before you take any drastic act

Replace official Guix in home-channels-service-type

2023-05-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Using Guix Home, how may I replace the official Guix channel in home-channels-service-type [1] please? The manual envisions that scenario, but neither of the two links offered [2] describe the full solution. Thanks! Kind regards Felix [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-08 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:32 AM Gottfried wrote: > > How can I install "lightdm" instead of "gdm" I have never used lightdm but I think it is reasonably popular. You may wish to wait for more responses before making such a drastic change. Have you tried switching into regular X.org

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 3:09 AM Gottfried wrote: > > Could it be that MATE 1.24.1 became always worse through updating gdm > because now MATE 1.26 (already in Trisquel 11 used) und MATE 1.27 is > available, and after updating to a new version the support for the older > version is no

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 7:23 AM Gottfried wrote: > > It seems to me, after using Guix for 1 year, that packages for > developers like Emacs are very well maintained. You are right. For better or for worse, Guix is a speciality distribution. Some of us have higher hopes. Personally,

Re: MATE Desktop fails

2023-05-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:26 PM Gottfried wrote: > > I would like to stay with GNU Guix if possible, Thank you for your continued goodwill toward Guix. > but it takes a lot of time at the moment, My first month with Guix was one of the hardest ever. I was so desperate and felt so

Re: Replace official Guix in home-channels-service-type

2023-05-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Timo, On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 5:22 PM Timo Wilken wrote: > > The following ought to do it: It worked great! Now I have my custom version of Guix all the time, even though it isn't authenticated. Thanks so much! Kind regards Felix

Re: unbound variable in attempt to install "lightdm"

2023-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 8:50 AM Gottfried wrote: > > So can I have both installed? It's possible to have the packages for two display managers installed at the same time, but the system can only be configured to use one at any given time. Guix services do both: They install the pac

Re: Unicode Symbols for Greek Extended

2023-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 6:39 AM Gottfried wrote: > > I would need the Unicode Symbols of Greek Extended, I would probably add the package 'font-sil-gentium' [1] and then regenerate my font cache with 'fc-cache -f -v'. [2] In most cases, it should be sufficient to do so as a user rather than

Re: Message by a novice

2023-05-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
the mailing list. We want to hear from you. You are also welcome to write to me privately if needed. Thank you for trying Guix & welcome! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/home-config/src/branch/history/desk.scm

Re: guix shell without arguments

2023-05-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Hafeez, On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:23 PM Hafeez Bana wrote: > > How do people run poostgresql run right that’s been > installed via guix? I start it via postgresql-service-type. [1] Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/bba3636982400ef6a82e902dd2771e8

Re: Racket REPL not working

2023-05-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Zelphir, On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 2:57 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > I updated guix today using `guix pull && guix package -u`, but even before > that, > I had an issue starting a Racket REPL simply entering `racket`: Following your lead, I just updated Racket to the latest version (via Gui

Re: first experience with XFCE

2023-05-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:37 AM Gottfried wrote: > > In XFCE it is impossible to put my additonal monitor on top of the laptop. The older X system is not great when it comes to "multi-head" setups. You can check whether you are in X (and not Wayland) by seeing if the eyes in xeyes

Re: How to declare symlinks in the configuration?

2023-05-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 4:15 AM Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > > How can I declare symbolic links in the system configuration? > In this specific case, I wish to be able to declare the following link: > ~/.config/guix/channels.scm -> ~/src/izumi/channels.scm Guix can appear scary at first,

Re: first experience with XFCE

2023-05-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Christian, On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:57 AM Christian Gelinek wrote: > > > but starting xrandr in the shell says command was not found. I am not sure what's happening to you folks. I have the 'xrandr' package in my home profile [1] and it runs fine. [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/home-conf

Re: How to declare symlinks in the configuration?

2023-05-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Marek, On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 8:43 PM Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > > This is the kind of answer I was hoping for. Sorry I disappointed you, and thank you for using Guix. Kind regards Felix

Mcron jobs using with-mail-out

2023-05-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Does anyone have a working job specification for Mcron that uses "with-mail-out"? [1] I have some trouble providing (mcron redirect) inside the gexp. Thanks! Kind regards Felix [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/mcron.html#index-with_002dmail_002dout

Re: How long does it usually take to pull --no-substitutes?

2023-05-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Zelphir, On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 4:06 AM Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > Sorry to be this vague Being similarly vague, I think you did the right thing. Something was definitely stuck. I also abort such runs from time to time. On my seven-year old desktop computer with eight cores—but possibly u

Re: How to declare symlinks in the configuration?

2023-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:13 AM Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2. Including the contents of these files directly in the >`operating-system` declaration. In this case, you see me specifying >key-value pairs for the main Postgresql config file in a nested list >under the `extra-config` rec

Re: to save my Guix System installation

2023-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Florian, On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 9:33 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > yes, making a backup is good. I don't think Gottfried is making a backup. I think he is leaving us. We failed a beginner who is absolutely dedicated to free software. Kind regards Felix

Re: to save my Guix System installation

2023-05-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 9:16 AM Gottfried wrote: > > I am not planing to leave Guix. Thank you for writing that. I am glad to read it. > But with Guix I can’t use my Scanner > and I need my scanner regularly > so I have to install a second distro like GNUinOS and/or Trisquel > on

Re: Guix on mobile phones

2023-05-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Csepp, On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 4:40 AM Csepp wrote: > > Either the upgrade should fail until all substitutes become available or > it should do a partial upgrade. Do Guix System or Guix Home offer such an adaptive resolver? I'd love to have it! Kind regards Felix

Bordeaux "substitution failed"

2023-05-28 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, What can I do about this error, please? 2. &message: "https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/zstd/mxxszppxdv8nysq3in7f54xfn46y4sdw-xfce4-panel-4.18.3.tar.xz: HTTP download failed: 404 (\"Not Found\")" I tried '--fallback' but that only went one step further before erroring out, as well: gui

Re: package variants, ex: emacs-gtk, emacs-lucid

2023-05-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Jindam, On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 8:17 AM jindam wrote: > > I noticed there are no package variants > for emacs I see a few but have not used them: emacs-no-x [1] emacs-no-x-toolkit [2] emacs-next [3] emacs-next-tree-sitter [4] emacs-next-pgtk [5] emacs-next-pgtk-xwidgets [6] ema

Re: Manual reference to non existent module (gnu home services ssh-agent)

2023-05-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Alexandros & Markku, On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 8:18 AM Markku Korkeala wrote: > > > But there is no such module. > > yeah, that should probably reference the module (gnu home services ssh), Thanks for pointing out the bug in the documentation! I filed a patch to fix it. [1] You should have rec

Re: system reconfigure fails over an nfts storage .

2023-05-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Alexandros, On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 1:49 PM Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > (device (uuid "217F991C18987AC44")) Based on my reading of the file gnu/system/uuid.scm, I might instead try the line (device (uuid "217F991C18987AC44" 'ntfs) in the hope of selecting the NT

Re: Adding PolicyKit actions

2023-05-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Robby, On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 1:28 PM Robby Zambito wrote: > > Here is the configuration I have added > > (service polkit-service-type Are you using %desktop-services? I believe polkit-service-type is already part of that set. [1] You may have to extend the service instead [2] although I am

Re: GRUB fallback on boot failure

2023-05-29 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Nathan, On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 3:52 PM Nathan Dehnel wrote: > > My understanding is this is done by adding the > following to /etc/default/grub: > > export GRUB_FALLBACK="1 2...{number of entries}" > GRUB_DEFAULT=saved > GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true I believe it will work, but booting older GRUB en

Re: system reconfigure fails over an nfts storage .

2023-05-30 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Alexandros, On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 1:49 PM Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > i dont understand why it should be declared twice that it's ntfs. It's because without it, Guix assumes [1] that all UUID are in the form specified by the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). [2] Kind regards Feli

Re: PSA for RAID users in Guix System (mdadm)

2023-06-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, > the raid-device-mapping in Guix > checks whether all component devices are present before assembling an > array . [2] That check will prevent your system from booting when one > of your disks has failed. A patch series for that bug was submitted for review. [1] The fix was tested over seve

Re: Need help creating a new user account in Guix Distro

2023-06-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Salaam Dr. El-Nahal, On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 1:44 AM Dr Ibrahim El-Nahhal wrote: > > have used the "useradd" command to create the account, and > it was successful. However, I am unable to login to this account. Like you, I also found that part super confusing. As a declarative operating system

Re: Whta is the significance of ~/.cache/guix/profiles?

2023-06-28 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Unstable Horse, > Just guessing based on a quick check of the contents of it on my > machine: probably serves as a cache of guix shell profiles. I also think that's what they are. Removing the links won't save much space, though. You are probably better off sticking to 'guix gc' unless you h

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