From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bengt Richter Subject: bug#37347: 'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps from "Running Guix Before It Is Installed" page Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:27:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20191004222747.GA18281@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> References: <20190909024917.19b37a23@kompiuter> <20190911225318.49617ba0@interia.pl> <87tv9c5iyn.fsf@gnu.org> <20191003195746.GA96737@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> <20191004025708.GA122977@PhantoNv4ArchGx.localdomain> <87v9t5ouab.fsf@jlicht.xyz> Reply-To: Bengt Richter Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iGW4N-0005gP-EF for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:29:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iGW4M-00009f-Bi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:29:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:34739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iGW4M-00009Q-8T for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:29:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iGW4M-0004mb-2r for bug-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:29:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87v9t5ouab.fsf@jlicht.xyz> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Jelle Licht Cc: Jesse Gibbons , 37347@debbugs.gnu.org On +2019-10-04 09:15:56 +0200, Jelle Licht wrote: > Bengt Richter writes: > > > [snip] > > ... > > [19:40 ~/bs]$ ping guix.gnu.org > > ping: guix.gnu.org: Name or service not known > I actually have this sometimes as well. Are you on a less-than-stellar > WiFi-connection perhaps? I noticed the default (nscd?) configuration on > Guix systems caches 'negative' results for quite a while. > > Could you try this command again after issuing: > `sudo herd invalidate nscd hosts'? > > HTH! > - Jelle Hi Jelle, thanks for your reply. I am a grateful courtesy guest sharer of internet access in a small office complex via cat5 to their switches, so it should not be a WiFi problem. I get DNS automatically along with ip from their server dhcp, but I have other options I could explore. I can't try the herd command right now, as I am in strictly "foreign" mode at the moment. --Ignorable note about that: (I am busy making a ~/.my_login_ctl.d that will contain the means to log in with and without guix profiles visible, and PATH etc set alternately. The idea is so I can just use touch to select features implemented as files to be sourced from ~/.my_login_ctl.d/my_login_ctl which I'll call from ~/.bash_profile. (~/.bashrc is also modified), and then log in and get guix and Shepherd/herd etc -- or not. I'm hoping this will help me debug differences between plain ArchLinux and the latter with guix binarily installed, with and w/o Shepherd/herd also. as I don't expect my problems of /usr vs /gnu to go away for a while :-) BTW, I don't want to define a whole different /home/me_for_alternate_mode, I want to switch from console to console with Alt-Fx and start a new mode at worst by touching a file or two and logging out and logging back in.) --Ignorable note about that:-- If the ip number to guix.gnu.org is fixed and public, maybe I could try putting it in /etc/hosts ? If there is no objection, I'd like to try that. TIA if posting the ip number, or explaining why not ;-) -- Regards, Bengt Richter