Re: Request for testing

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

Hi Ludo and all other Guix hackers,

I figure, with your recent call for reports, it's finally time to
summarize my experience of the system image.

It's been a long-ish journey to get it to work — but a lot of that is
non-guix related :-)

The system seems to run nicely on my gluglug x60 (though it overheats
when building locally — again, a hardware limitation rather than guix).

A couple of notes made whilst using it so far (in no particular order of
importance):
- when writing the system configuration, the password field seems to
  expect the hashed value of the password.  This makes good sense, but
  it might be worth pointing out in the manual somewhere?
  (perhaps in 'User Accounts' -> 'user-account' 'password'?)
- it also took me a while to generate the hashed password (in the end I
  created the password with 'passwd', and then copied from shadow -> the
  system configuration file). This is probably not related to Guix.
- after enabling the x-server, the default shortcut to shell points to
  the wrong location (and it seems like the window manager does not
  respect the user's $PATH?).
- I have some issues with https security certificates not being used by
  curl/wget/git etc. This is not just in the guix system, but also in
  guix on Debian — solution may be simple, but I haven't found it yet
  (this caused some frustration when trying to guix pull :-) )
- adding users in the system configuration, and then removing them from
  the definition does not remove the users from the system. I have no
  idea whether this is intended or not — just something that struck me.

All in all it's very cool to actually be running GNU / Guix as a full
distro, and I'm amazed that most things "just work"!

Sorry for the lack of patches — I hope the feedback is helpful anyway.

Looking forward to 0.8,

Alex

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello,
>
> GNU Guix 0.8 (alpha) is tentatively scheduled for release on Nov. 18th
> (soon!).  Further testing of the OS installation image would be welcome.
> A bootable USB image for x86_64 can be found at:
>
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20141114.x86_64.xz
>   http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/gnu-usb-install-20141114.x86_64.xz.asc
>
> SHA1:
>
>   4c255fd9a2bb98b072722e879200eeb6f6096aab  gnu-usb-install-20141114.x86_64.xz
>   3a2139a253bc4866bd79f7c8f33cca53bbce4605  gnu-usb-install-20141114.x86_64.xz.asc
>
> The installation instructions are at
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Installation.html>
> and on tty2 once the installation system has booted.
>
> Please report any issues on #guix (Freenode), guix-devel@gnu.org, or
> bug-guix@gnu.org.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.