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<sepi>I'm both interested in scheme and fed up by deprecated broken statefull package management and would like to have a maintainance-free music production workstation installation

<sepi>btw, how can I set the keyboard layout in the guix 0.6 vm?

<sepi>I tried to install emacs on the VM but now my disk seems to be full and I get "df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory"

<civodul>sepi: ah yes, the VM was short on disk, i think :-/

<civodul>and the df error is because of a missing /etc/mtab file

<civodul>things are improving though ;-)

<civodul>to set the keyboard layout, you could use setxkbmap, but it's not pre-installed

<sepi>civodul: ah, I just wanted to shut the system down in order to try to increase the vms size but don't know how to

<civodul>that may be possible with qemu-img, and then, after booting into it, resizing the partition with Parted or similar

<civodul>haven't trie

<civodul>+d

<sepi>civodul: is there an alternative to df?

<sepi>and does gnu dmd not need /etc/fstab?

<civodul>sepi: you could do "cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab"

<civodul>or ln -s, even

<civodul>dmd doesn't need fstab, no

<sepi>so dmd is central in the design of the guix distribution or might it change?

<civodul>it's fairly central, but it's not too hard (yet) to move to another system

<civodul>ATM i think it's a good option

<civodul>i mean, dmd is a good option

<sepi>It seems to be a pretty critical part so thats why I'm asking

<civodul>yes

<civodul>we're gaining more and more confidence about it as we build the real distro

<civodul>it's working out pretty well, and it's easily integrated with the rest

<civodul>so that's cool

<sepi>And would you later be able to move to hurd?

<civodul>yes, but that's a longer term goal

<civodul>phant0mas is actually working on porting the distro to GNU/Hurd

<civodul>well, the packages and tools

<sepi>oh, interesting

<civodul>(that should have been a GSoC, but i failed that...)

<sepi>civodul: how can I become root on the VM?

<civodul>in the 0.6 VM you have to go to tty1 or such

<civodul>now we have sudo & co, which is more convenient, needless to say ;-)

<sepi>civodul: how do I get to tty1 in qemu? It seems that my system grabs ctrl-alt-f1

<phant0mas>We will have guix on hurd eventually :-)

<phant0mas>I am working on some undefined references and I will send the glibc package soon

<phant0mas>sepi: ^

<phant0mas>I am just having a lot of work at my university, that's why I slowed down a bit

<sepi>civodul: sorry, I found out ow already

<sepi>s/ow/how/

<zacts>phant0mas: I know what that's like re: the university slowing down projects.

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