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<PotentialUser-53>Good time of day! I am wondering if someone could help me with something. I have installed guix for the first time on my home server today, and I'm trying to mount a directory. I have made the corresponding change to `config.scm` and am trying to apply it with `guix system reconfigure /et/config.scm`, but I am getting repeated "SWH vault: requested

<PotentialUser-53>bundle cooking, waiting for completion..." messages for about an hour now. Am I missing a step somewhere? Thanks in advance.

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, Did you change anything else?

<PotentialUser-53>I did not

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, Did you `guix pull' in between reconfigures?

<PotentialUser-53>I tried, but got a 504 back

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, The message is saying.... The command you issued needs to build something that isn't already on your machine, so it has to download the source code for that. But the source location didn't work, so it fell back to the Software Heritage Archive (SWH). But SWH is in the middle of the process of preparing that source tarball.

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, So there are a number of puzzling things about this: SWH shouldn't be taking so long to do this, but also, you shouldn't need to compile anything in the first place.

<PotentialUser-53>That was my understanding as well, but the only thing I added is: `(file-system (mount-point "/storage") (device "/dev/storage/volume01") (type "ext4"))`

<PotentialUser-53>I have confirmed this works via a manual `mount` command

<ieure>Yes.

<PotentialUser-53>I have ^C'd and tried running the command again, noticed it also outputs "SWH: found revision 230aa373f315f247852ee07dff34146e9b480aec with directory at 'https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/directory/15b3ea27d68711b283d20a82cfb1942159632a53/'", if relevant

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, Can you put the log of your reconfigure in a pastebin service, and paste the URL to it in the channel? https://paste.debian.net is one.

<PotentialUser-53> https://paste.debian.net/hidden/68bc5a56 is there any cli flag I can use for more verbose reporting?

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, No. Log is not very helpful, unfortunately. I suggest you run `guix pull', as suggested, then try the reconfigure again.

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, This will take a while.

<PotentialUser-53>guix pull fails with a gateway timeout; is there an alternative url I could use?

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, What URL is it pulling from?

<ieure>It could be either savannah.gnu.org or git.guix.gnu.org

<ieure>Guix 1.4.0 used Savannah, 1.5.0+ uses git.guix.gnu.org.

<ieure>(which points to Codeberg)

<PotentialUser-53>Ah, this time it went through, looks like it might have been a transient error

<PotentialUser-53>It was the latter

<ieure>PotentialUser-53, Okay, that's what it should be.

<PotentialUser-53>Thanks for your help, I will try another reconfigure after the pull

<ieure>No problem, that ought to work.

<PotentialUser-53>ieure, after `guix pull`, the reconfigure was successful and the mount point got set up correctly. Thanks again for the help, have a great day!

<waffles2>oh joy. so remember i ordered that t580? i found a 256gb ssd in my drawer

<waffles2>also a 512gb ssd but thats for desktop

<apteryx>is it just me, or 'herd restart NetworkManager' does not work?

<apteryx>it stays stuck in a 'starting' state

<apteryx>ah, it eventually started, it just took an unexpectedly long time

<apteryx>switchy: are you able to forward dns to a certain dns resolver for a particular (sub)domain with networkmanager?

<apteryx>I tried, and I'm a bit confused at the moment on how it can work

<apteryx>switchy: think I found the trick: dns=dnsmasq in network-manager-configuration

<ajarara>csantosb: for libcbor, cmocka as input instead of native input kept cross compilation working. Moving it to native inputs causes: `Could NOT find CMocka` for all targets.

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