Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Thanks Marius and others who have worked on core-updates. It's exciting to see these updates nearing completion. In my testing so far, I've noticed that font-gnu-freefont fails to build: https://issues

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! pdfpc currently fails to build on core-updates. Upgrading to the latest pdfpc release fixes the issue. Patch upgrading pdfpc is at: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40829 Best, Jack

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Hi, I've reconfigured my user profile and system from the core-updates branch. I use a GNOME desktop session. However, I don't use too many fancy features. I mostly use GNOME-Terminal, GNOME-Web, and Em

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill wrote > I have not done extensive testing, but so far the desktop itself seems to > be in working order, including cursory use of the GNOME settings dialog. Same here. So far, things are w

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:19:26 + Jack Hill wrote > Does GNOME-Web work for you? I'm wondering if others can reproduce the > problem I'm seeing: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40837 No it doesn't. Hi all, Unfortunately

Re: GNU Guix maintainer collective update

On Mon, 4 May 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Mon, 04 May 2020 13:31:46 + Maxim Cournoyer wrote > Let's take a moment to thank Ricardo for his time as a Guix > co-maintainer. He's been immensely useful to the project and I hope > we'll continue to see him around. Hey, Wurmus, thanks

Re: core-updates merged!

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: Guix, The mythical 'core-updates' branch was just merged to 'master'! Yay! Thanks Marius for shepherding this through. Best, Jack

Re: curl server certificate verification failed for a few sites

On Thu, 4 Jun 2020, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: Hello Guix, --8<---cut here---end--->8--- I'm having a strange error with curl from Guix (on a foreign distro): --8<---cut here---start->8--- giovanni@roquette: curl -I https:/

ProxyJump and offload

Hi Guix, I'm tryng to set up offloading to a remote machine on a different network. The preffered way to access machines on the remote network is via openssh's ProxyJump option (as I understand it, this does some automated port forwarding to access the eventual remote host via the proxy host).

Re: problem with flatpak and ssl and certificates

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, maxxcan--- via wrote: Hello Guix! I´m try to install flatpak apps and many works corretly, but others don't. My problems is with apps like Steam, Stremio, discord. They show me problems with ssl, o autentications. For example: With Discord the error is: did-fail-load

Corrupt/missing store items

Hi Guix, I could use some help figuring out what's happened to my store and how to recover. I first noticed the problem when trying to check if a package build reproducably. Unfortunately, I did not capture the output from that, but did capture subsequent commands. It seems as if the metadat

Re: Corrupt/missing store items

Given what i know about the problem: substitute operations are failing because gnutls is not available, I tried: jackhill@kalessin ~$ guix build --substitute-urls=http://ci.guix.gnu.org /gnu/store/zkhymfsbrv0s4y7l778g78k6y65nidxd-gnutls-3.6.16.drv /gnu/store/2vjql2vd6srqxhr0r9xnhclqgc5kxlh1-gnu

Re: Corrupt/missing store items

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Christopher Baines wrote: Jack Hill writes: Given what i know about the problem: substitute operations are failing because gnutls is not available, I tried: jackhill@kalessin ~$ guix build --substitute-urls=http://ci.guix.gnu.org /gnu/store

Re: Corrupt/missing store items

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Jack Hill wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Christopher Baines wrote: Jack Hill writes: Given what i know about the problem: substitute operations are failing because gnutls is not available, I tried: jackhill@kalessin ~$ guix build --substitute-urls=http://ci.guix.gnu.org

Re: Corrupt/missing store items

On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Jack Hill writes: What happens if you try “guix build --check --no-grafts /gnu/store/zkhymfsbrv0s4y7l778g78k6y65nidxd-gnutls-3.6.16.drv” or similar? The database probably states that /gnu/store/jlk67v3nddhv0z963wfvahk8fc8gqcz8-gnutls-3.6.16 has

Re: was I hacked?

On Thu, 14 Apr 2022, jgart wrote: What I not sure of is what path on my system to find the suspicious branch/git repo pulled down by `git/guix pull` so I can push it somewhere. In other words, where does `guix pull` clone the git repo to? ~/.cache/guix/checkouts ~/.cache/guix/authentication

Re: "user with UID not found" error

On Mon, 1 Aug 2022, Christopher Batten wrote: On Jul 27, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi Christopher, Turns out we are using SSSD not NCSD on our Linux systems. It seems to be working fine: You will need to run NSCD if you want Guix software to be able to talk to the system’s S

Docker image format with services

s '("/dev/sdX" (file-systems '()) (packages %base-packages) (users (cons* (user-account (name "jackhill") (comment "Jack Hill") (group "users") (supplementary-groups '(&

Re: Docker image format with services

On Sun, 30 Apr 2023, Markku Korkeala wrote: Hi all, just joined here, so I couldn't reply to the actual actual email, I copied the below message from the archive to this email On 4/18/23 02:05, Jack Hill wrote: I then load that into docker: `docker load < /gnu/store/…tar.gz`, and

Troublshooting guix-publish make-systemd-constructor

Hi Guix, I have the following in my operating system services: (service guix-publish-service-type (guix-publish-configuration (port 9090) (host "localhost"))) However, trying to connect to port 9090 from localhost hangs. `ss -tunlp | grep 9090` shows shepherd list

Re: Troublshooting guix-publish make-systemd-constructor

On Thu, 1 Feb 2024, Felix Lechner wrote: Hi Jack, On Thu, Feb 01 2024, Jack Hill wrote: I could use some tips on what's wrong with guix-publish, and more generally how to troubleshoot systemd services. I use this [1] and also have (service avahi-service-type) [2] but do not know h

Re: Dependency cycle between certbot and nginx is not obvious.

On Fri, 3 May 2024, MSavoritias wrote: Hey, I spent the better part of the day today trying to debug an error that was happening while deploying a server with two server names in the nginx field. My config was: (service certbot-service-type       (certbot-configuration       

List of installed package, version pairs

Hi, It seems that work has noticed the GuixSD host that I brought into the office. The security office maintains a risk profile be collecting lists of installed packages, so I've been asked to produce one for the GuixSD host. I assume that the garbage collector's live-paths is roughly equival

Re: List of installed package, version pairs

Thanks! I'm still not quite there, but the suggestion below have been quite helpful in my thinking and experimentation. On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Efraim Flashner wrote: For packages you have installed in your profile 'guix package -I | cut -f1,2 --output-delimiter=@ | sort -u' gives a nice list. Pe

Re: List of installed package, version pairs

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, Gábor Boskovits wrote: Hello Jack, you could also try to make sense of the individual profile generation manifests. The union of those should give a farily comprehensive list, and it comes with versions. Yes, this looks pretty good, thanks. I think that this gets me all

grub.cfg does not have luks module for encrypted root

(device (file-system-label "alperton_root")) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4") (dependencies mapped-devices)) %base-file-systems)) (users

Re: grub.cfg does not have luks module for encrypted root

I have solved my problem, and now have Grub working with an encrypted /. The config I had before had a gpt partitioned disk, with bios boot. I had an encrypted / and a separate, unencrypted /boot. When I changed the configuration to not use a separate /boot filesystem, and put /boot on the enc

Re: grub.cfg does not have luks module for encrypted root

On Fri, 1 Feb 2019, Joshua Branson wrote: Jack Hill writes: Ahoy, I'm using the attached config.scm for a host with an encrypted gpt root partition while booking with bios-grub. It produces the attached grub.cfg, which lacks the luks module, thus grub cannot find the kernel. If I ente

Re: Need help porting eDuke32

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, HiPhish wrote: Ken Silverman is an asshole and an idiot for writing his own license instead of using an existing one, or letting an actual lawyer write it. And in 2000 he didn't even have the "dumb teenager" excuse. While non-free software is frustrating (and I'm sure is e

Debugging an mcron job

Hi Guix, I'm looking for help or tips on debugging an mcron job. My goal is to run a site-specific telemetry script that I have packaged [0] in my channel. The script collects some information and sends it to a remote server. I am trying to run the script as an mcron job via a service I create

Re: Debugging an mcron job

On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'm looking for help or tips on debugging an mcron job. I haven't yet solved this, but have some done some more (potentially interesting) troubleshooting. The problem only seems to present itself, when mcron is run from Shepherd. F

Re: Debugging an mcron job

I've figured out what was going wrong with my job (by redirecting the output to a file). It couldn't verify the remote host's certificate: urllib2.URLError: Now to figure out why. I have nss-certs in my system packages. Best, Jack

Re: Debugging an mcron job

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: I've figured out what was going wrong with my job (by redirecting the output to a file). It couldn't verify the remote host's certificate: urllib2.URLError: verify failed (_ssl.c:726)> Now to figure out why. I have nss-certs in

Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

Hi Guix, I'm trying to color calibrate my scanner while running GNOME by following these instructions: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/color-calibrate-scanner.html.en I have produced a tiff of my calibration target, but my scanner doesn't show up in the GNOME settings color su

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'm trying to color calibrate my scanner while running GNOME by following these instructions: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/color-calibrate-scanner.html.en I have produced a tiff of my calibration target, but my sc

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: On Guix, when the scanner is connected via USB it cannot be found by my user's scanning programs (or, therefore, the GNOME hardware/calibration dialog). However, it can be found as root. I suspect the problem is a missing udev rule. What is the righ

Re: Color calibrating scanner with GNOME

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019, Jack Hill wrote: I can see the scanner from my unprivileged user, and it shows up the the GNOME hardware/calibration dialog. Unfortunately, clicking on the "calibrate" button does nothing. On Debian buster with GNOME 3.30, doing so brings up a calibration w

Re: checking out a shebang-patched package source

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, Brett Gilio wrote: It has been a few days, so I am bumping this. Thanks :) Brett, Unfortunately, I don't know how to solve your problem. However, I think that your question is appropriate for the guix-de...@gnu.org list, and I anticipate that you'll see more replies the

Re: Debugging an mcron job

On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Jack Hill skribis: I've solved this for my service by adding SSL_CERT_DIR to the environment: https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/jackhill/guix-at-duke/blob/a9674ec7b0decac94745c91df886817e2fc8a91b/guix-at-duke/services/endpoint-management.scm Is t

Possible store corrumption

Hi Guix, I've run guix gc --verify and received the following output: $ guix gc --verify reading the store... checking path existence... path `/gnu/store/k5qxpr9wswli6lskpp433mrk0ffvxa9q-gcc-6.5.0.tar.xz.drv' disappeared, but it still has valid referrers! path `/gnu/store/k5vl8jfhjasarib3ya4zpi

Re: Possible store corrumption

On Tue, 21 May 2019, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: Could be a full disk issue? In this case that was not true. It turned out to be bad memory. When I ran a memory test, it aborted do to too many errors, which is not a good sign ☺. Therefore, I expect what was happening was that data was being co

warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

Hello Guix, I'm setting up Guix on a foreign distro (CentOS 7). I'm working on getting locales right per section 2.6.1 of the manual. I have installed the guix-locales package in buth my user's and root's profile, and have restarted guix-daemon. However, when I run package installation optera

Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hello Guix, I'm setting up Guix on a foreign distro (CentOS 7). I'm working on getting locales right per section 2.6.1 of the manual. I have installed the guix-locales package in buth my user's and root's profile, and have restarted

Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Raghav Gururajan wrote: On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 10:11 +, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Hello Guix! If I want to make the "grub-bootloader" to invoke ONLY "grub-mkconfig" and NOT "grub-install", how should I modify the "bootloader" part of "operating-system" section of system

Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

some dark corner of computer problems where no one else ventures :) On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:01:50PM -0400, Jack Hill wrote: 1) The default locale in the provided systemd unit, en_US.utf8, is not provided by the glibc-locales package but rather only by the glibc-utf8-locales package. I

Why are these derivations different?

Hi Guix, I'm trying to copy the store items for ungoogled-chromium from one of my hosts that has many computational resources to another one that does not, so that I do not have to build ungoogled-chromium on the less powerful host. However, even after copying the store items using guix arch

Re: Why are these derivations different?

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: Jack Hill writes: Hi Guix, I'm trying to copy the store items for ungoogled-chromium from one of my hosts that has many computational resources to another one that does not, so that I do not have to build ungoogled-chromium on the less powerful

Re: Why are these derivations different?

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: What's really going on with --no-grafts. Is it that guix on my less powerful host has never seen the the ungoogled-chromium version build against the older dependencies, so doesn't accept the older version that could be grafted? I guess, I'm not sure exac

Problem with building service from my channel

Hi Guix, I have defined the planisphere-report-service-type in my channel This has been working well for me, and I have most recently been able to bu

Re: Problem with building service from my channel

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Jack Hill skribis: ``` (repl-version 0 0) (exception misc-error (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~s") (value (mcron-service-type)) (value #f)) ``` The Guile exception possibly means that code in your channel refers to ‘mcron-se

Re: Problem with building service from my channel

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Here's where I define a service that extends mcron-service-type I copied the code for this service from my channel into an arbitrary service file in the guix repository, hoping for a different message that would provide more insight. To my surpris

btrfs mount options not used

Hi Guix, I'm trying to mount my btrfs root filesystem with the compress=lzo option. Following Section 8.3 or the manual (System Configuration → File Systems, I added (options "compress=lzo") to my file system definition. However, when I reconfigure and reboot, it does not appear that the file

Re: btrfs mount options not used

On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'm trying to mount my btrfs root filesystem with the compress=lzo option. Following Section 8.3 or the manual (System Configuration → File Systems, I added (options "compress=lzo") to my file system definition. However, when I

grub with encrpted root no longer automatically loads luks

uot;) (type "ext4")) (file-system (device (file-system-label "alperton_root")) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4") (dependencies mapped-devices)) %bas

Re: grub with encrpted root no longer automatically loads luks

Thanks for you reply. On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: Hello Jack, I don't have a Guix machine using root on encrypted LUKS now, but I tested this non so long ago and it worked well Jack Hill writes: I've noticed that recently (unfortunately, I don't know

Re: grub with encrpted root no longer automatically loads luks

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi Jack, Jack Hill writes: I've noticed that recently (unfortunately, I don't know exactly when it started), that grub no longer prompts me to enter my password to unlock my root filesystem. FWIW, I also use an encrypted root filesystem

Re: GuixSD doesn't boot on UEFI

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, luka...@tutanota.com wrote: I it freezes my UEFI so it doesn't boot... No GRUB, no GNU Shepard, nothing... :( Lukas, Wow, when it fails that early in the process, there is not that much to go on. Have you tried booting other other (non-Guix) media. It would be interesti

guix copy connection problems

Hello Guix, I'm trying to use `guix copy` to copy some store items from a more powerful computer to my laptop. I've tried to set everything up correctly with ssh-agent, and I can ssh without being prompted for credentials, but guix-initiated connections are timing out, so clearly I'm missing

Re: Who is sending my Guix System to sleep?

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Konrad Hinsen skribis: The only problem is that after 20 minutes, the virtual machine seems to freeze. I've experienced unwanted suspends as well on a desktop system when not logged in graphically. I found the cause in /var/log/messages:

Re: Who is sending my Guix System to sleep?

I also found a related Debian bug for gdm settings: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896083

Re: reconfigure in failure

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: Hello Pierre, pirboazo writes: for several days I can no longer update my system. with the last guix : 4c46356 The update fails during the check phase of the jimtcl-0.77 package. Where is this package from? I can not find it in Guix. I believe t

Creating local variation of match-theme

Hi Guix, I'd like to create a local variation of the matcha-theme package with one of the colors changed to suit my taste. Rather than make the change in my clone of the git repository, which could then become outdated, I thought I would try to make the change programatically as part of the pa

Re: Creating local variation of match-theme

Hi, It's been a few days, so I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on the following: Best, Jack On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'd like to create a local variation of the matcha-theme package with one of the colors changed to suit my taste. Rather than make the

Re: Creating local variation of match-theme

Thanks Marius! On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: It's not pretty, but you could create a package that takes "match-theme" as an input and makes the necessary adjustments. See the 'mariadb/fixed-install-db' variant added in 9077cf68ec57c0303ef7746e203c3fe5ed041add for an example. I tri

Install image with custom services

Hello Guix, I'm trying to create an installation image that uses Network Manager to configure networking (For use at a site with WPA-Enterprise networks). I came up with the following: ```scheme (define-module (jackhill system install) #:use-module ((gnu packages gnome) #:select (network-ma

Re: Install image with custom services

On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Jack Hill wrote: I created a more minimal operating system definition: ```scheme (define my-installation-os (operating-system (inherit installation-os) (packages (cons package:network-manager (operating-system-packages installation-os

Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: I just wrote a short draft which hopefully should explain in layman terms why Guix matters. I tried to keep short (< 1000 words) and to stick to non-technical vocabulary. Let me know what you think! On my initial reading, I think it's great, thank

Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Thanks, glad you liked it! I'd be happy to get feedback from your presentation! It's not until March 26th (it's part of a series of lunchtime discussions), but I'm happy to write a summary and report back. Best, Jack

qtwebengine support/security status

Hi Guix, Thanks to Mike and everyone for working on qtwebengine and qutebrowser. I'm happy and thankful that Guix's features and the community's commitment allow packaging these in a principled way. Before I use these packages to browse untrusted websites, I wanted to double check that it is

Re: qtwebengine support/security status

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, Thanks to Mike and everyone for working on qtwebengine and qutebrowser. I'm happy and thankful that Guix's features and the community's commitment allow packaging these in a principled way. Before I use these packages to b

Re: How/When will guix pull stop to compile the 616 files?

On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Paul Dufresne writes: It takes 45 mins. on my relatively old dual core to guix-pull Yeah, this isn’t great. Since 0.13.0 compilation is slower and requires a whole lot more memory. That’s a known problem. There are some ideas to reduce the amoun

Re: How/When will guix pull stop to compile the 616 files?

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Before a substitute can be requested, Guix will have to compute a derivation locally. In the case of Guix itself this is rather expensive. Once we have the derivation we can ask substitute servers if they have a binary substitute for performing the wor

Re: setting MTU for guix pull only

On Wed, 19 Mar 2025, Roman Riabenko via wrote: To identify whether MTU was an issue, I tested manually by pinging the address with packets of different sizes. I do not know whether there is a better way to do that. I described that in the linked post. I, too, don't know if there is a better wa