From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: Re: Re Recent hydra.gnu.org maintenance window Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:25:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87r2g8vm6i.fsf@lassieur.org> 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]:56546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHE6J-0007Qi-Mf for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:25:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHE6I-0001lj-I5 for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:25:27 -0400 Received: from mail-oi1-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::233]:37392) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gHE6I-0001lJ-CZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:25:26 -0400 Received: by mail-oi1-x233.google.com with SMTP id w66-v6so4042800oiw.4 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ranjanified@gmail.com Cc: help-guix , =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment_Lassieur?= It seems that berlin is back online, you could try authenticating berlin from the installer, and use --substitute-urls=3D"https://berlin.guixs.org" at every guix command. See https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Substitute-Server= -Authorization.html#Substitute-Server-Authorization I have not done this before, but it should work. Nalin Ranjan ezt =C3=ADrta (id=C5=91pont: 2018. okt= . 29., H, 21:14): > > Thank you so much Clement. > > Any idea by when it could be? > > Also if someone can help me with the experience which I am going to write= below, I will be really grateful. > > It's just that I am not trying to upgrade Guix, but have been trying to u= nsuccessfully install GuixSD for the first time ever on my laptop. In the p= ast week or so I have ran the command system init like 7-8 times,and every = time it fails into 504(Gateway timeout), or Patch not found(may be 404), an= d couple of occasions SHA mismatch. I tried running the default command as = per documentation, also tried with --substitute-urls specified as mirror.hy= dra.gnu.org and/or berlin.guixsd.org a but end result being same. The insta= ll halts in the middle. When I specified --keep-going(and left for office),= when I came back, I saw an infinite loop of 504s, just being printed out o= n the console repetitively for the same package. > > Then I tried specifying --fallback, which kind of seems to get the thing = done. Though it takes innate amount of time to run(guess everything is gett= ing compiled from bottom to top), but in the very last step it fails saying= system error: grub failed to install. Phewwww, back to square one, yet ano= ther time. > > I have a ThinkPad T410 on which I am trying to do this. Currently I have= a dual boot configuration running Ubuntu and Windows 7. Could that grub in= stall failure because of my /boot not being empty and formatted afresh for = GuixSD? If so, can anyone of you please help me in figuring out how to inst= all GuixSD alongside those existing ones(other distros plus special Mr. Win= dows)? Do I need to reformat my /boot to make it fresh so that Grub install= from GuixSD installation could succeed(not sure if this is the reason for = failure). > > Since I have just this laptop, dedicating to GuixSD build from source is = blocking me for a very long long time(Just now I spent a week so in trying = to get it to completion, only to discover very late that a maintenance is u= p in progress). Please suggest as to how should I go about, having GuixSD i= nstalled along with preserving the older installations on my system? > > Let me know if I can help with any other information from my side. though= new, I can always dig in to extract the necessary information. > > PS:- I am so new to FSF and its software, I may not sound as appropriate = as I should while putting up my concerns. So please feel free to comment, a= dvise or dictate anything that you may feel will let me into the right dire= ction. > > Thanks and Regards > Nalin Ranjan > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:23 PM Cl=C3=A9ment Lassieur wrote: >> >> Hi Nalin, >> >> I don't think so. >> >> And Berlin's Continuous Integration doesn't work anymore, so there is >> currently no way to upgrade Guix. >> >> Cheers, >> Cl=C3=A9ment >> >> Nalin Ranjan writes: >> >> > Hi Guys >> > Is this Window over? >> > >> > Regards >> > Nalin Ranjan >>