Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

[Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>]

Hello!

I have spotted a further issue — though I'm not sure whether this thread
is the right place to report it:

One is able to select ratpoison as the only option in the desktop
environment options in the installer.

After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that
selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK.  Signing in to GDM
however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a
ratpoison session.  It is not clear to me what causes the issue, but I'm
happy to help debug if someone can provide me with pointers on doing so.

Intuitively, I would hazard a guess that the initialisation of ratpoison
fails and the session is aborted, at which point GDM is restarted.

Best wishes,

Alex

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> I’ve run “make release” from the new ‘version-1.1.0’ branch and uploaded
> the result:
>
>   https://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/1.1.0rc1
>
> Alternately (and preferably), you can get it over IPFS:
>
>   guix install ipfs
>   ipfs daemon &
>   ipfs ls QmXpSUnppJgf23LpaKJzRWJbQxwEfybJy9VxF79iTLSXqa
>   ipfs get …
>
> All the files are signed with my key, also used to sign this message.
>
> Please test things as much as you can, be it the binary installation
> tarball on a “foreign” distro or the ISO image.  Once you’ve downloaded,
> just follow the same instructions as before (if you want to use
> ‘guix-install.sh’, you’ll have to adjust it to use the right tarball):
>
>   https://guix.gnu.org/download/
>
> If you encounter an issue, please report it to bug-guix@gnu.org,
> explaining what you did and what you observed.
>
> Notice that there’s no i686-linux installation image and no VM image,
> because of <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40527> but i can provide
> those later.
>
> If everything goes well, we can publish the release on Monday, 13th,
> with few or no changes beyond translation updates on the ‘version-1.1.0’
> branch.
>
> Thanks in advance!  :-)
>
> Ludo’.