Re: Garbage Collector

2022-07-25 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 2:52 AM Gottfried wrote: > > The manual says that it is dangerous to use: "guix gc" > because it can delete too much. I agree that 'guix gc' deletes too much, but it's probably not dangerous. You will just see some downloads and builds repeated when reconfiguring late

Re: Renaming ‘master’ to ‘main’

2022-08-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 1:57 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Yes, this is something we should do. For what it's worth, I now use 'history' for primary development branches when possible. To me, it establishes a preeminence among branches by function rather than name. Plus, I like writing "It wa

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 Felix Lechner [1]

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
Hi, On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:33 PM dabb...@gmail.com wrote: > > I can't login with private credentials. Did you set a password interactively? Otherwise you can set an initial password with something like (password (crypt "alice" "$6$abc")) [1] Either way, I would also have a look at the output

Re: Connection refused to Guix-hosted SSH

2022-10-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 1:54 AM dabb...@gmail.com wrote: > > Finally, I also tried to manually start sshd on port I think that is a fabulous idea, especially if you can prevent daemonization with -d (or -D). > this is the output /etc/ssh/sshd_config: No such file or directory The sshd

Re: Connection refused to Guix-hosted SSH

2022-10-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 1:02 PM dabb...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'm puzzled, as I don't understand exactly what went wrong... How about the output from the client with ssh -vvv Also, it may be helpful to post the contents of your sshd_config. > Connection from 127.0.0.1 port 33818 on 127

Re: Trouble with nfs mount

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Fredrik, On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 2:47 PM Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: > > I can manually mount it. Can you mount it manually using your entry in /etc/fstab, i.e. with 'noauto' and then just mount /media/Valhalla ? I am not sure whether (mount? #f) sets 'noauto'. That would confirm t

Re: Guitar-to-USB cable in Guix System

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 4:22 PM Luis Felipe wrote: > > Anyone knows if these kinds of cables work on Guix System (or any other libre > distribution)? I thought about buying one of those cables but I have several USB sound cards more or less like this one [1] that I will try first. The spec

Re: Trouble with nfs mount

2022-10-16 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Fredrik, On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 6:08 PM Fredrik Salomonsson wrote: > > it was indeed using the entry in the /etc/fstab, i.e: That's good! My guess is that the Shepherd service is not working correctly, for example by not requiring networking. I might ask over there. Sorry I cannot be of mor

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-10-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 4:41 PM Luis Felipe wrote: > > I had to switch to using WiFi to access the Internet and > it hasn't been a nice experience. My household has three computers that use Wifi exclusively—one desktop, and two laptops. All of them are from 2015. I upgraded them a week ago,

Re: export LC_ALL=C

2022-10-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:30 AM Luis Felipe wrote: > > LANG=C guix describe I also think it's the clearest recommendation for someone new to locales, but it may not adjust the order of months and days in dates or other cultural conventions. LC_ALL changes all six categories described here

Re: Guix package manager installed

2022-10-30 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 2:13 AM Gottfried wrote: > > What would be the benefit to use Guix with the root user account? Using Guix with the root user account would give you access to executables managed by Guix while you are logged in as root. If you have root privileges, however, you could

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-10-31 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 5:11 PM Luis Felipe wrote: > > Is it really possible for an application like Jami to cause this problem > or am I just going loco? I think it's very possible that some of Jami's commitment to keep the connection alive interferes with similar efforts by Shepherd (or pe

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
Hi Gottfried, On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 1:01 PM Gottfried wrote: > > I tried, it didn't help. > the same error message. Well, I do not mean to appear argumentative but I did not see (gnu service cups) at the top of the configuration you sent earlier in this thread. The variable cups-service-ty

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 5:50 AM Gottfried wrote: > > If e.g. I have a different printer (e.g. from an other company), and I > want to install it, That is a CUPS question. As you can imagine, there are lots of printers. I usually look at which format the printer speaks, and how it li

Re: Can't reconnect to WiFi easily

2022-11-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Felipe, On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 12:45 PM Luis Felipe wrote: > > 2 11:18:55 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[796]: couldn't access control > socket: /run/user/1001/keyring/control/: file or directory not found > 2 11:18:55 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[797]: couldn't access control > socket: /r

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

2022-11-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 4:58 AM wrote: > > 'Could not prepare Boot variable: Invalid argument' You have not yet rebooted, have you? What do you see with this command? ls /sys/firmware/efi/vars/ You can also try 'guix install efivar' and look at the output of that tool, but please do no

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

2022-11-06 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 1:04 PM wrote: > > 8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c-BootCurrent My diagnosis was wrong. Your EFI variables are accessible. How about the output of 'efibootmgr'? > My fear is that the GRUB menu will not come up That's a real possibility. > Is there > anything I c

Re: guix builds the old guix version

2022-11-09 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Adam On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 1:09 AM Adam Kandur wrote: > > Hi guix! > I pulled the guix channel, reconfigured my system and cleaned my storage. > But when I am trying to "guix build guix", I am getting this version > guix-1.3.0-32.682639c which is old. What I need to do to build an > actual gu

Re: Regex Rules

2022-11-10 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:39 AM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > > ‘By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions.’ — Yes, the word "extended" is often omitted. A good summary is here. [1] POSIX adopted some, but not all, of the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), whi

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
Hi Raghav, On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:29 AM Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > Lemme try that as well. Actually, you do deserve an answer. I merely made light of the fact that I did not have it, and perhaps provided a way out for Ludovic, too. Sorry about the levity on this otherwise totally earnest l

Re: RedShift

2022-11-11 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Raghav, On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 8:26 PM Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > Unfortunately, that didn't work either. Please save the snippet below as services/redshift.scm and 'load' in your home configuration like this (services (list (load "service/redshift.scm"))) Hope that helps! Kind reg

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

2022-11-14 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Fenix, On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM jord...@librebits.info wrote: > > no code formodule (nongnu packages linux)" . I believe that our project's etiquette would direct your question to a nonguix forum. I am not sure whether there is a mailing list. Personally, I would ask in #nonguix on IR

Re: How to setup custom keyboard layout ?

2022-11-21 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:32 PM calcium wrote: > > I have a custom .xkb layout for X and a .map.gz for console. So do I. [1] [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/rocket-layout > How does I specify using my custom layouts local files in /etc/config.scm ? As far as I know, it is currently not

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
Hi Wolf, On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:02 PM Wolf wrote: > > On IRC I was advised to try guix install lvm2-static, which does work > (after sourcing the profile), That is the correct procedure. > however it does download the package > from the internet. That seems pointless, since I already have on

Re: Stumpwm & using Lisp in guix - particularly quicklisp

2022-12-24 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Paul, On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:46 AM Paul Jewell via wrote: > > I want to use the same configuration file under guix. > Unfortunately I run into a problem as when stumpwm starts, it complains > it can't find package "ql". I have used StumpWM with simple configurations. I used only CL modules

Re: grub-install failing while system reconfigure

2023-01-15 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, Akib Azmain Turja writes: > Fortunately, I had > another GRUB installed with a Guix entry, so I can still get into Guix > (an older system generation, though). Even with an older Grub you should be able to load your latest Guix menu with 'configfile'. [1] It should give you access to your m

Re: Intel i7-1165G7 vulnerable to Spectre v2

2023-02-01 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Christian, On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 2:26 AM Christian Gelinek wrote: > > On the same machine, I have run Debian 11 Live from a USB drive: > > Vulnerability Spectre v2:Mitigation; Enhanced IBRS, IBPB > conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS SW sequence Looks like the "Enhanced IBRS" featu

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
Hi, On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 9:34 AM jerome moliere wrote: > > I just bought a refurbished machine (T440P) with Coreboot Congratulations on your commitment to free software! > This wifi chipset is recognized > but activating it fails during ESSID pairing (bad password)... Do you use GNOME or Ne

Re: attempt to scan in Guix

2023-02-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 6:09 AM Gottfried wrote: > > /gnu/store/sw1j2kavizxwj7sc51p83nwrfdvm6xj4-hplip-3.33.10/bin/hp-toolbox > was broken due to a segmentation error. I recommend against using hplip, if that's where that's from. I would instead search the SANE database [1] for you

Re: attempt to scan in Guix

2023-02-26 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 1:41 AM Gottfried wrote: > > How would be the command to use libsane directly in the terminal? I think the command to list the detected scanners is 'scanimage -L' but my memory isn't perfect. It would be best to consult the documentation. Kind regards Felix

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
Hi Roman, On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 8:34 AM Roman Scherer wrote: > > "Too many levels of symbolic links" error. I think you have circular symbolic links (or possibly just a poorly-placed link to a folder). [1] Unfortunately, I am not sure how to examine the issue unless you have basic tools like 'f

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-05 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Roman, On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 9:03 AM Roman Scherer wrote: > > the file > > > /gnu/store/097dmm40lhcf777acqh5i660j4i09k85-tzdata-2022a/share/zoneinfo/posix > > links to itself. I also have that loop in /gnu/store/7pjzwj9d4fnyzp9x7k8cc4hazypyrk0p-tzdata-2022a/ but do not believe it is the s

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 * * * #!/usr/bin/env guile !# (let* ((argument

Re: Grub installation and configuration

2023-03-07 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Vagrant, On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 2:52 PM Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > Kind of related, with EFI you could actually install additional system > generations as entirely separate EFI boot entries > (e.g. /boot/efi/efi/guix-N and /boot/efi/efi/guix-N+1) in case the most > recent grub was broken for

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
Hi Luigi, On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:27 AM Luigi Salamone wrote: > > I need the gutenprint drivers, which are not packaged for Guix. I'd also love to have Gutenprint, but my understanding was that it is unlikely to be packaged anytime soon. If I recall correctly, Gutenprint ships many small exec

Re: image converter and resizer

2023-03-17 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:44 AM Gottfried wrote: > > which package is useful and easy to use to convert and resize images in > Guix? The generic way to manipulate images in Linux (especially with scripts) is probably imagemagick, but your time is probably better spent learning GIMP

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
Hi Ekaitz, On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 3:45 PM Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > > The main problem I have now is the RUNPATH is not set properly. I hope it's okay to amend your note briefly. The captive shared library libim.so is not being found by (guix build-system gnu) when setting the RUNPATH for libim_j

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
Hi Erik, On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 9:44 AM Erik Giorgis wrote: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device a780 (rev 04) > > shouldn't the kernel take care of these devices? When on a different distro I > get: > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake

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://codeberg.org/

PSA for RAID users in Guix System (mdadm)

2023-04-03 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, If you came from another GNU/Linux distribution and use software RAID in Guix System, you may not be getting the best possible experience. This message is probably only interesting to you if you have a 'raid-device-mapping' in your operating system declaration. [1] In terms of basic functiona

Re: nautilus-admin

2023-04-12 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 7:38 AM Gottfried wrote: > > I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, > because it needs root rights. Mounting hard drives is generally a privileged operation, but a lot of people use external storage. I believe Gnome can make s

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
Hi, Given the broad popularity of LUKS full-disk encryption among our fellow Guix users, I thought the community might appreciate reading about potentially weak key-derivation functions in older LUKS installations. [1] The article even offers fixes, although I cannot say whether your system will

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
Hi Piriponzolo, On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:23 PM anguriamelone--- via wrote: > > I would like to know what are the basic command lines corresponding to those > of > Trisquel GNU-Linux below: You already received a lot of quality advice, so I'll keep it brief: Like many distributions, we nowada

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

Re: Restart freezes after reconfiguring system

2023-07-02 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Georgios, On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 6:50 AM Georgios Athanasiou wrote: > > After running `guix system reconfigure' and then trying to restart my > computer, it won't restart. I get a blank screen with the cursor > blinking at the top left corner, the computer not responding anymore. Sometimes,

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