From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: "profil-drv" error or what am I doing wrong? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:57:03 +0200 Message-ID: <874mzqjyjk.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv0oo-0001wU-LD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:57:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv0ok-0003qT-0Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:57:10 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:41750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wv0oj-0003qC-PI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:57:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Adam Pribyl's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:00:47 +0200 (CEST)") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Adam Pribyl Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Adam Pribyl skribis: > As there is no user list, let me use this one. > > I am trying the GNU Guix 0.6 as published in > > https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=3D7939 I suppose you=E2=80=99re referring to the VM image, right? > however I am not able to finish any "guix package -i" as it always > reports error in compilation, either profile.drv or perl etc. What error does it report? > BTW: in the X session I can not switch to root as there is no "su" > available by default. Yes, this has been fixed since then. > guix refresh just prints various packages that "would be upgraded" but > does nothing. That=E2=80=99s intended: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix-refresh As noted there, the primary audience of the guix refresh command is developers of the GNU software distribution. > I am confused with dmd too at I do not know how to list running > services, therefore I can not enable or disable anything as I do not > know what is available. As root, try running =E2=80=98deco status dmd=E2=80=99; more info at: http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/manual/dmd.html#Invoking-deco To become root on the 0.6 VM image, you=E2=80=99ll have to switch to VT 1, = and from there log in as root. If this is an option for you, I=E2=80=99d recommend trying Guix from master= , or waiting until 0.7 is out (within a month or so.) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.