From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: Plan for a release! Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:32:27 -0500 Message-ID: <86eeu5culg.fsf@dismail.de> References: <60bd323b399bc4fafefc74d7fa84c0db@dismail.de> <86lfoqy8h0.fsf@dismail.de> <87pne3d5t6.fsf@gnu.org> <1e9d70a74387d32de652695c0142fdaa@dismail.de> <170ab960856.11da8ff2d91348.5473441353526419693@zoho.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50175) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jAFtw-0005TU-QE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:32:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jAFtu-0004pK-DW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:32:39 -0500 Received: from mx1.dismail.de ([78.46.223.134]:4017) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jAFtt-0004j2-4p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:32:37 -0500 Received: from mx1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ebb36540 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:32:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de ( [10.240.26.11]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id a9983500 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:32:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp1.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id e0dabd41 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:32:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id e82134af (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:32:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <170ab960856.11da8ff2d91348.5473441353526419693@zoho.com> (sirgazil@zoho.com's message of "Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:01 -0500") 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 sirgazil writes: > > I'm not sure, but the problem of launching applications from > application menus may be related to the issue of launching > applications when double-clicking files in file managers (Thunar, > Caja, etc.) when there is more than one Desktop Environment or Window > Manager available. Could you please check > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39843 and see if you get the same > behavior? If so, it would be helpful if you could report your > experience in that bug report as well. Sure. I'll add it to my schedule. > > > Joshua > > > > 1. I wish I knew how I could have reconfigured my laptop instead of reinstalling everything. I > > tried this. > > > > chroot /mnt; > > guix system reconfigure /mnt/etc/config.scm; > > I may be missing something from previous messages to the list, but to > reconfigure the Guix System you can copy the system configuration file > in "/etc/config.scm" save it wherever you want, modify it to your > liking (e.g. adding or removing more packages or services), and then > > $ guix pull > $ sudo guix system reconfigure /path/to/your/config.scm > My problem was that I could not do a guix pull, because I could not boot into the laptop. Grub would load, and display Guix System boot option, but after that it would show a blank screen. Essentially how do you fix a laptop that will not boot guix, via a guix usb install image? -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus