From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: gnu-system-demo feedback Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:45:56 +0200 Message-ID: <874n8k3trv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppranpd1.fsf@walter-nb.nord-com.it> 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]:41414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVhc2-0002S3-NO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:51:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVhbw-00052v-80 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:51:06 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:40023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VVhbw-00052q-1B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:51:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ppranpd1.fsf@walter-nb.nord-com.it> (Walter Franzini's message of "Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:36:26 +0200") 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: Walter Franzini Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi, Walter, Walter Franzini skribis: > being curious about guix I've tried to use the gnu-system-demo image and > I've found some difficulties: > > 1. how to shutdown the system? Why would one do such a thing? ;-) There=E2=80=99s currently no =E2=80=98shutdown=E2=80=99 command, because dm= d (the init system) doesn=E2=80=99t have one yet. Its support for run levels is preliminary. Adding good support for that is the next thing to do. See for more info. > 2. guix pull fails - already reported by someone else Yes, that=E2=80=99s now fixed, but the version in the image is broken. > 3. running guix gc as root empties /etc (broken symlinks) > 4. running guix gc as guest (!) empties /etc (broken symlinks) A bug: I forgot to register them as GC roots (see gnu/system/vm.scm.) > 5. df fails with the following message > df: cannot read table of mounted file systems. No such file or direct= ory I believe that=E2=80=99s because /etc/mtab is missing. > I'm missing something? > Can someone point me to relevant information? I don=E2=80=99t think you=E2=80=99re missing anything, except that this was= preliminary work. All this clearly needs to be ironed out, and that will be part of the focus for the next releases. The areas where help is appreciated are the system-wide configuration instantiation tools (the gnu/system/*.scm modules), and dmd (http://www.gnu.org/software/dmd/). dmd is quite small, which makes it easy to get started with it, I think. Thanks for your feedback, Ludo=E2=80=99.