How to debug failed boot after successful reconfigure?

2021-04-08 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Hi list. I'm trying to wrap my head around running guix. While question in subj is general it was prompted by a real failure, so really I am interested both in "general approach" as well as solving the actual problem I ran into. having updated with `guix pull` I run `sudo guix system reconfigure

Where to find dmesg and /etc contents of specific system generation?

2021-04-09 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Hi guix. Is it possible and where could I find contents of /etc for a specific system generation. Ditto dmesg of the last boot of specific generation? Not necessarily current generation though. In a nutshell: I have a generation that boots and works fine, but sadly I also have a generation that f

Re: How to debug failed boot after successful reconfigure?

2021-04-09 Thread Vladilen Kozin
yboard-layout keyboard-layout) (terminal-inputs '(console serial_0 serial_1)) (terminal-outputs '(console serial_0 serial_1 Seriously, noone knows where to find dmesg and contents of /etc that pertain to the last attempt to boot specific generation? Pretty please? On Thu, 8 Apr 2021

Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere?

2021-04-30 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Hello guix. My machine only has USB 2 and rusty old spinners. USB is obviously slow and guix with its store will quickly destroy any consumer grade USB stick I insert there. Rusty spinners are so slow I wouldn't want my worst enemy running their OS on them. So, I plugged PCIe card with NVMe SSD dr

Re: Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere?

2021-05-02 Thread Vladilen Kozin
how systems bootstrap and OMG this whole territory is full of arcane sacred knowledge spread all over the interwebs and most of what you find is nonsense. Once people who actually know how the sausage is made retire or die, our civilization is doomed :( On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 04:07, Joshua Branso

no /dev/net/tun aka modprobe tun failed when inside container

2023-03-21 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Hello. I defined a shepherd service with the intention of starting it as part of my system. Testing and debugging it was kinda, well, not straightforward. Since it is meant to be instantiated as part of the entire operating system, I did all the foo-service, foo-service-type ⇒ derivation ⇒ shepher