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<pkill9>in this case it hung on mirror.guixsd.org which is down or something i believe from reading irc messages

<civodul>right: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00434.html

***rekado_ is now known as rekado

<rekado>sneek: later tell snape I’m still traveling and can only take a closer look at Berlin on Sunday.

<sneek>Okay.

<rekado>sneek: botsnack

<sneek>:)

<rekado>civodul: Hi!

<rekado>civodul: is there really something wrong with berlin.guixsd.org right now?

<rekado>I can’t see anything obvious.

*rekado prepares for flying back home from Shenzhen

<rekado>oh, later messages say that berlin is busy again, so I take it that all is good now.

<civodul>rekado: nope! it's alright

<civodul>have a good trip back!

<emacsomancer>I've having trouble with `guix package -u`, xmlsec-nss-1.2.27.drv is failing, apparently a dependency of libreoffice

<brettgilio>Hello, all.

<nckx>emacsomancer: The tests are failing due to certutil (i.e. nss:bin) missing from xmlsec-nss. Should be an easy fix. [Dangerous words...]

<nckx>Yup, that solved it. I'll push a fix soon.

<nckx>o/ brettgilio

<brettgilio>nckx: How are you?

<nckx>brettgilio: Well but tired, thanks (it's 4:40 here). Yo'self?

<brettgilio>nckx: Currently cringing looking at the list of over 687 apps built using electron. Jesus christ

<nckx>I consider that language to be appropriate. Who's list?

<nckx>'Who's' — definitely bed-time.

<nckx>emacsomancer: Done. LibreOffice should start building soon. Fingers crossed.

<brettgilio>nckx: The official electron list, on their website.

<brettgilio> https://electronjs.org/apps

<brettgilio>nckx:

<brettgilio>People have made pretty much everything short of an Emacs front-end for electron. Who wants a calculator that runs on 500mb of ram????

<nckx>Electron, like Chrom*, repulses me on a deep physical level. You'll find no disagreement from me.

<brettgilio>nckx: We will get along very well. Ha!

<nckx>The word 'lightweight' appears three times on that list. I do believe the end times are near.

<nckx>And with that I'm off to dream of electronic sheep.

<emacsomancer>nckx: cheers!

<tune>I keep having to delete /var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix. anyone else having this issue?

<tune>I think I've had to do it both for my user and for the root account at least twice lately

<tune>"guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:" is the error

<tune>and I can sudo rm the file and then do guix pull and all that just fine, but why would it happen more than once?

<civodul>tune: by deleting it manually, you're probably confusing 'guix pull': now it thinks it has to migrate things that in fact have already been migrated

<bzp>hi guys

<bzp>I have some files with extension '.scm' that made in 'scheme' and they indicate to me that I can use 'guile', how can I compile and execute this file from emacs? What should I install and configure?

<atw>bzp: you may find https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/The-Perfect-Setup.html#The-Perfect-Setup helpful though emacs is not the only way -- if you want, you can also run guile from the command line

<civodul>efraim: your OverDrive is off-line :-)

<jlicht>hey guix!

***LucidDreamZzZz is now known as luciddreamzzz

<nckx>Ouch: 'systemd-networkd is vulnerable to an out-of-bounds heap write in the DHCPv6 client [...] resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution.'

<nckx>GuixSD: security through hipster obscurity.

<Laalf>soooo... guixsd will awake mir from the dead because wayland is no fun and xorg is broken? will it also bring a good alternative to pulseaudio?

<efraim>Mir is also positioning itself to be a Wayland compositor for projects that don't want to implement everything

<Laalf>oh wow. mir was its own display server that looked pretty promising the last time i checked. but that was a few years ago

<Laalf>also "lets build the next generation display server. based on opengl. because that is not getting old, right?" is a bit funny.

<ranjanified>Hi Guys

<Laalf>hello

<ranjanified>I need some help booting guixsd

<ranjanified>I installed after a lot of hassle

<ranjanified>but the success came with --no-bootloader option

<ranjanified>now I gotta boot it along side my preexisting dual boots?

<ranjanified>I already have Ubuntu and Windows on other partitions of my hard drive

<Laalf>ranjanified: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars shows if you can write to efivars. if the folder efi doesnt exist, you are booted in legacy mode.

<ranjanified>I think mine is not EFI

<ranjanified>but, let me check that

<ranjanified>ls: cannot access '/sys/firmware/efi/efivars': No such file or directory

<ranjanified>iyt says that..

<Laalf>(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader) (target "/boot/efi") is something you would use for efi, (bootloader grub-bootloader) (target "/dev/vda") for bios

<ranjanified>ah.. I am currently in my ubuntu

<Laalf>so you specify the bootloader as grub-bootloader and the target as the drive you intent to boot from

<ranjanified>in my config I specified grub-bootloader

<Laalf>the right drive?

<ranjanified>with the /dev/sda which is my hard drive

<ranjanified>and then I did guix system init

<ranjanified>but when it finally said copied and some operating system in /mnt..

<ranjanified>after that it guix system error: grub cannot be installed

<ranjanified>something like that

<ranjanified>then I ran the same command with --no-bootloader option, which did not give me any error, so I presumed that OS is installed

<Laalf>i am pretty sure you could install grub from another distro.... are you sure that your drive is mbr and not gpt?

<ranjanified>grub is already there