Re: 'static-networking' fails to start

[Roman Riabenko via <help-guix@gnu.org>]

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Hello Fabio

On Mon, 2024-03-25 at 16:05 +0000, Fabio Natali wrote:
> I think I tried that (commenting out the default gateway part, which
> might be picked up automatically by means of Router Advertisement
> RA?). I'll definitely try again once in front of the machine and
> update the bug report with my findings.

I attest that I succeeded this weekend by following the instructions in
the latest (development) version of the guix manual without commenting
anything out. I've just finished updating the system and rebooted to
confirm that it still works with the latest updates.

I do not know what your error means but among the things that I was
unsure about I remember the following two.

First, I almost missed that "static-networking" is a data type that
must go in a list under "static-networking-service-type" as explained
in the previous example in the same manual. Instead, I also added
"%loopback-static-networking", though it produced a different error
which clearly explained that loopback is already implicitly included.

Second, I was unsure where to get the IPv6 default gateway. I tried the
"ip -6 route" command. As far as I remember, it provided a link-local
address. Though, I see both the link-local and the global address now
in the output on another autoconfigured (SLAAC) device. I just checked
the gateway address on the router instead. I included only the global
address.

The only other difference in my configuration is that I indicated a DNS
server for IPv6 too.

I hope this may help.

Roman

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