From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jbranso@dismail.de Subject: Re: Plan for a release! Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:42:29 +0000 Message-ID: <1e9d70a74387d32de652695c0142fdaa@dismail.de> References: <60bd323b399bc4fafefc74d7fa84c0db@dismail.de> <86lfoqy8h0.fsf@dismail.de> <87pne3d5t6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53157) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1j9qln-00012S-AQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:42:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j9qlm-0003v6-4I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:42:35 -0500 Received: from mx2.dismail.de ([159.69.191.136]:6303) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1j9qll-0003tS-Io for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:42:34 -0500 Received: from mx2.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 9f1fc633 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:42:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de ( [10.240.26.11]) by mx2.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id df5e1def for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:42:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 7d1dda3e for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:42:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 7272099b (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2020 14:42:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <60bd323b399bc4fafefc74d7fa84c0db@dismail.de> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Well I re-installed guix again just now, so that I could test Xfce and MA= TE. (1) Since I knew that=0Agnome worked just fine, I decided not to incl= ude the gnome service in my config. I also decided not=0Ato include the e= nlightenment environment.=0A=0Atl;dr Xfce worked fine, and MATE failed t= o launch any applications.=0A=0AThe first oddity, was GDM. It worked just= smoothly, but the default drop down shows that by default=0AI am going t= o boot into Gnome. I don't even have the gnome service in the config. Tha= t's a bit odd.=0A=0AXfce worked just fine. It took about 15+ seconds for = the desktop background to appear, but it=0Aappears to be running smoothly= . However, there does not appear to be a browser installed by=0Adefault. = Clicking on the browser icon gives me a pop up message "Choose Preferred = Application". The =0Adrop down does not list any programs. I manually ins= talled icecat. Perhaps the manual should mention =0Athat we have not pack= aged firefox. Instead we have icecat. Also, I used to have problems with = my mouse =0Aonly moving up and down in guix when I use an apple laptop. T= his appears to be resolved. Nice work guys!=0A=0AAfter Icecat was install= ed, clicking on the browser button allowed me to choose icecat as my defa= ult browser, and I was able to browse the internet just fine. I logged o= ut of Xfce.=0A=0AMate started just fine. I did get a pop-up message =0A= =0A"Authenticate".=0A=0AAuthentication is needed to run mat-power-backlig= ht-helper. I put in my password, and the dialog went away. I did not se= em to be able to launch icecat with the Application menu. The Icecat log= o was in the applications menu, but a popup said "Could not launch GNU Ic= ecat Web Browser". The error message is "Failed to execute child process= "gio-launch-deskop" (No such file or directory). I also could not launc= h mate terminal for the same reason. Actually very few applications coul= d launch. I could get the file browser (thunar?) to open, but not much e= lse. Since MATE did not seem to work so well, I logged out.=0A=0AThanks,= =0A=0AJoshua=0A=0A1. I wish I knew how I could have reconfigured my lapto= p instead of reinstalling everything. I=0Atried this.=0A=0Achroot /mnt;= =0Aguix system reconfigure /mnt/etc/config.scm;=0A=0AI got an error that = said that guix could not access the build daemon inside the chroot. I was= n't=0Asure how to fix that.