Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnome.

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:18:45PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Leo Famulari writes:
> 
> >> Maybe we should add a variant of gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl that
> >> uses all things GNOME?
> >
> > That would be helpful!
> 
> Yes...I tried it and currently get the opaque and slightly obnoxious
> 
>     `Oh no!  Something has gone wrong'

Me too!

> 
> I have been using
> 
>   ...
>   (packages
>    (cons* gnome
>           gnome-shell
>           guile-wm
>           nss-certs
>           xkbutils
>           %base-packages))
>   (services
>    (cons* (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
>           ;;(dhcp-client-service)
>           (lsh-service #:port-number 2222
>                        #:allow-empty-passwords? #t
>                        #:root-login? #t)
>           %desktop-services))
> 
> Uncommenting (dhcp-client-service) gives the error
> 
>     guix system: error: service 'networking' provided more than once
> 
> but having it commented-out like this I cannot login with ssh to the
> vm...and I cannot investigate what may have triggered the opaque error
> message...puzzled

How are running the VM? The way I've been using it (documented in 7.2.14
in the manual) does not allow the host to connect to the guest.

> 
> Greetings,
> Jan
> 
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