Re: A couple roadblocks using guix

[Adam Pribyl]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Omar Radwan wrote:

> I'm trying to install guix on my laptop(finally got the thinkpenguin wifi
> card), after reading through the manual, I have everything setup, except
> there are a couple bumps on the road.
>
> One of the things is that during system initialization, the (gnu system
> networking) module returns an error which reads "guix system: error: failed
> to load operating system file '/mnt/etc/config.scm': (misc-error #f "~A ~S"
> ("no code for module" (gnu system networking)) #f)
> and that kind of makes things really annoying to manually restart
> networking every reboot.

Are you sure you included a proper module(s)?
(use-modules (gnu)
             (gnu services ssh)
             (gnu services networking)
             (gnu services xorg)
             )

(btw use guix system reconfigure /config.scm if you have already installed 
system)

> Another thing is that is sort of a problem is during a windowmaker X
> session, all my graphical applications(xterm, icecat, etc), are not listed
> in the application menu and are not runnable, and I would think it has
> something to do with user permissions, but an X session in root also
> doesn't let me run them.

This I experince too. In my opinion the reason is, that applications are 
installed per user and the path to them is just in your ~/.guix-profile/. 
I am not sure how WM searches for them, but definitely not in 
~/.guix-profile, but I am not sure about this.

> The last thing is that I have not found any meta-packages, which allow me
> to install multiple packages that are needed for the same program, like for
> instance, there is gcc, make, cmake, and all the bread-and-butter build
> programs, but you have to name each in the "guix package -i *" declaration
> to install, but if there was some metapackage, like buildessential (I come
> from Debian).
>
>
> That last peeve is really just a missing feature, I do understand that it
> will take some time to implement and I'm not really demanding it, just
> extremely recommending it. But the first 2 are definitely problems that I
> really hope someone could help me with.

Adam Pribyl