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<zenmaya42>can i force a grub install somehow? I changed the configuration of grub but it has not written itself through <mange>What configuration did you change for grub? I don't know how to force an update to grub, but I expect "guix system reconfigure" to reconfigure grub as well. <zenmaya42>mange: i changed keyboard layout, but it did not write itself through to the grub fde unlock <mange>Can you link your config in a paste? <cbaines>I'm going to attempt to reboot bayfront, which will affect bordeaux.guix.gnu.org substitutes... <janneke>ACTION assumes that world-rebuilding commits still need to go to core-packages-team, and not next-master, right? <Rutherther>janneke: ideally only tested commits should go to next master so that its always mergeable to master <civodul>janneke: only if they’re in the scope of the ‘core-packages’ team though :-) <zenmaya42>is there a shepherd system for executables that use sd_notify for when they started? <civodul>zenmaya42: no, sd_notify is currently unsupported; if you have a compelling use case, please share, this could change! <zenmaya42>civodul: i am writing a nebula (the vpn) service definition, and at least from what I see, there is no way to notify shepherd that it has started. On nixos it uses the systemd service type "notify" which uses sd_notify <civodul>zenmaya42: can it use socket activation? or a PID file? <civodul>i think i only saw one example of a daemon that strictly required sd_notify (forgot what it was) <zenmaya42>i dont see the option anywhere in the config or in the cli <ekaitz>who decides the priority in the mimeinfo.cache file? I have a few programs that swallowed all the config and now they open everything by default. Like libreoffice opening txt files <Guest567>I am trying to do a system reconfigure but get the following error message: <Guest567>warning: channel 'guix' lacks 'introduction' field but '.guix-authorizations' found <Guest567>guix system: error: channel 'guix' lacks an introduction and cannot be authenticated <Guest567>hint: Add the missing introduction to your channels file to address the issue. <Guest567>Alternatively, you can pass `--disable-authentication', at the risk of <Guest567>running unauthenticated and thus potentially malicious code. <Guest567>I've tried explicitly adding 'guix to channels.scm with the introduction but it didn't help <Guest567>how do i reconfigure without disabling authentication? <look>Guest567: try reconfiguring with 'sudo -E' <Rutherther>Guest567: how did you install your system? Can you send your /run/current-system/channels.scm file? <Rutherther>while reconfiguring with sudo -E might workaround this issue, it's still just a workaround. And generally it's dangerous as it can lead to root-owned files in your home directory. <Rutherther>it would be good to understand the root cause of this so that it can be fixed <Rutherther>Guest567: okay, and "guix describe -f channels"? <Franciman>Rutherther: are you still running the kofi gig? <Rutherther>Guest567: hmmm, that also looks intact, let me check what else could be happening then... does the -E solve it? <Franciman>when i have a income i will offer you another kofi, Rutherther <Guest567>Rutherther maybe it stopped working since i haven't updated in a long time? <Rutherther>Guest567: Is there a stacktrace associated when you reconfigure and get the error? <Guest567>guix system: error: channel 'guix' lacks an introduction and cannot be authenticated <Guest567>hint: Add the missing introduction to your channels file to address the issue. <Guest567>Alternatively, you can pass `--disable-authentication', at the risk of <Guest567>running unauthenticated and thus potentially malicious code. <Guest567>Rutherther ignore that it omitted some things <Rutherther>Guest567: right, the issue is in the channels you use for inferior-for-channels <Rutherther>Guest567: you're missing an introduction there, for both nonguix and guix <Rutherther>Guest567: consider copying the output of "guix describe -f channels" and just changing the commits. However I am afraid using inferior package in the kernel field is not supported at the moment, so I think the build will fail <Guest567>i wonder if i can just omit that part and use a substitute. I don't need any special kernel. <Rutherther>Guest567: I think that using inferior package as kernel has been supported at one point, but not anymore. So the message you found is a bit outdated and should be adapted. (or issues fixed so that kernel field supports inferiors again) Yes, if you're using substitutes it should be fine, since nonguix has their own CI (btw we should be discussing nonguix in #nonguix channel) <Guest567>Rutherther Understood. Thank you for the last bit of clarification. Would have never realized that by myself. <Guest567>side question. I was using a canoebooted (fully libre) dell latitude e6400 for a while, but it stopped working suddenly 2 days ago when it froze and the display glitched out in spots like if it was broken. guessing that's artifacting. I tried rebooting it but it does not seem to POST at all anymore. No status lights or sound beeps anymore. <Guest567>Swapped ssd to another lapop and it still works fine. I'm guessing the iGPU might have failed but i'm not technical enough to really know for sure. what do you think? <Rutherther>Guest567: issues like that are always kinda hard to pinpoint I would say. But if you're saying there is nothing at all, I would be more inclined to saying it's a RAM problem rather than just iGPU problem. Not really sure why GPU would lead to complete breakage of the system. At least if I understood the symptoms right... <pinoaffe>that indeed sounds like something is wrong with ram, cpu, or motherboard <Guest567>the laptop still powers on but no boot screen shows up. maybe it could be the ram but i bought it new. I've been using the laptop maybe a year at most. <Guest567>another thing is that if i remove the ram it goes into a boot loop. Iirc without ram I would have heard sound beeps and there would have blinking status lights alerting me. another reason why i'm really unsure. <Guest567>maybe it's best to just let it go. the ram was kind of expensive since it's harder to come buy. not really worth buying more to chance if it's the problem. <Rutherther>Guest567: I think it would be worth it testing if the computer is usable, without relying on the display. You have couple of options... you can start the computer and scan the network, seeing if it's online for example (or even seeing the blinking on the ethernet cable can tell you something). In case it's reachable from network, it's not a RAM issue, but more likely gpu or display, yeah <Rutherther>Guest567: another option would be booting into a specially made iso, but that would work only in case you're sure it's going to boot to it by default. You could for example make it have a static ip on your network and connect to it via ssh to poke around and see if all works well <Guest567>Rutherther one of the status lights that would come on soon after power on was the wifi. now it doesn't come on at all anymore even if I wait. The caps lock light also doesn't turn on anymore if I press it, which according to dell support is a sign that it's not POSTing. I'll see if I can work something out with ethernet. <Rutherther>Guest567: you could also try disconnecting the display completely if you dare to do that. In case POSTing was detecting an error with the display, maybe it would continue if it did not see a display at all <Rutherther>FuncProgLinux: But... this does not mean that search paths do not support something like globs, it's just that you cannot use files for that. Check this out: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/8972f2e5. pattern of search-path-specification can be used in cases like this <Rutherther>FuncProgLinux: note that even nested subdirectories work with the pattern I used <FuncProgLinux>I think caja might need a "hotfix" for those "**" in the definition. But AFAIK we are frozen right now <FuncProgLinux>and it's not a bug that leaves it unusable, it leaves another package unusable but it's an optional package. Caja doesn't need it to work <Guest567>Rutherther it was very easy to disconnect the display. just had to unscrew the underside panel of the laptop and the cable was right there. Disconnecting it just caused a boot loop though. I'm going to try connecting it to an old router I have. <attila_lendvai>suspend to ram is once again broken on my Lenovo Carbon X1 gen6. are there other reports? or is this hw specific? <csantosb>Funny. Seems that "./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts --check libosmocore" build in a host with nproc=8, not in another one with nproc=96 <umanwizard>Anybody know why Readline 8.3 was reverted? I had been looking forward to that :'( <Guest567>Rutherther turned out the problem was the ram after all. I remembered I still had the smaller amount of ram that came with the computer when I bought it. Switched it and booted up instantly. Also changed my config according to your advice and was I able to start reconfiguring. Hopefully I won't need to compile the kernel and just use <Guest567>substitutes. Thanks again for all the help. (y)