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Installing python-ipython breaks Gnome on Fedora. |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Jan 2018 21:32:26 +0000 |
* Environment
I am currently running Guix on top of Fedora 26, which comes with Gnome 3.24.2
As recommended(1), I source *~/.guix-profile/etc/profile* in *~/.bash_profile*
to make all the exported variables recognized by login shell.
* Issue
After installing python-ipython with guix, guix exported the following
variables:
GUIX_GTK3_PATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH
The next time I login, Gnome was broken, displaying nothing but a black screen,
except for Owncloud client(which is based on Qt). And all the key bindings
are gone.
So, I used tty to move the `source` command from *.bash_profile* to *.bashrc*.
After that, Gnome came back and functions as usual.
* Version
$: guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) d9a38cc255d853b2694a01b5704c1daedbb56742
[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00072.html
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Re: bug#30093: Installing python-ipython breaks Gnome on Fedora. |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 22:50:46 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
tomas.almeida@astrolabium.io <tomas.almeida@astrolabium.io> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I see people mentioning here that there doesn't seem to be a general
> solution to be included in Guix for this, but I als do not understand
> what the particular solution (for my machine, for example) is supposed
> to be.
> I'm a new user to Guix and also not technically very experienced with
> Linux OS's, so feel free to point me out something obvious I have
> missed.
>
> I currently have Guix on top of Ubuntu 20.04, and I have this exact
> problem with XDG_DATA_DIRS being exported on startup of Gnome and
> breaking it, and i happend when this variable is added to
> ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile when installing certain packages; the ones
> detected so far where python-ipython, python-ipykernel and
> python-notebook.
That's been fixed in guix-install.sh with
23aafc800c9e678662766440916449ec5bbce830 from Philip McGrath (thanks!):
"etc/guix-install.sh: Initialize XDG base directories."
I've confirmed it fixes the original problem, which was that installing
'python-ipython' would break a GDM login to GNOME on Fedora, by
installing the latest Guix via guix-install.sh on a Fedora 33 VM I had
laying around, then 'guix install python-ipython', logout, then re-login
without an issue.
Closing!
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Thanks,
Maxim
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