bug#34152: awesome crashes on reload

[Simon Tournier]

Hi,

On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 at 13:54, "Bradley Haggerty" <bradigger@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > To recreate this, install the "awesome" package, log in to it, and either 
>> > press control-super-r or open the menu in the top
>> > left and go to awesome -> restart.
>> >
>> > guix version:
>> > guix (GNU Guix) 1c17adbc7957d024158948a853f4fbc22e52a0f6

> I've since moved to Sway and am planning to stick with Wayland. I don't
> recall the issue ever being fixed while I was still using awesomewm, but
> not sure if it works now. Should be easy enough to test if someone was
> interested. I'm fine with this being closed since I'm no longer using
> awesomewm.

Using Guix 6113e05 and configuration below (adding ’awesome’ in
gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl), I am not able to
reproduce.  Therefore, I am closing.

If someone has more information and also hits this bug, please reopen.

Cheers,
simon

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;; -*- mode: scheme; -*-
;; This is an operating system configuration template
;; for a "desktop" setup without full-blown desktop
;; environments.

(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop)
(use-package-modules bootloaders certs emacs emacs-xyz ratpoison suckless wm
                     xorg)

(operating-system
  (host-name "antelope")
  (timezone "Europe/Paris")
  (locale "en_US.utf8")

  ;; Use the UEFI variant of GRUB with the EFI System
  ;; Partition mounted on /boot/efi.
  (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
                (targets '("/boot/efi"))))

  ;; Assume the target root file system is labelled "my-root",
  ;; and the EFI System Partition has UUID 1234-ABCD.
  (file-systems (append
                 (list (file-system
                         (device (file-system-label "my-root"))
                         (mount-point "/")
                         (type "ext4"))
                       (file-system
                         (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat))
                         (mount-point "/boot/efi")
                         (type "vfat")))
                 %base-file-systems))

  (users (cons (user-account
                (name "alice")
                (comment "Bob's sister")
                (group "users")
                (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
                                        "audio" "video")))
               %base-user-accounts))

  ;; Add a bunch of window managers; we can choose one at
  ;; the log-in screen with F1.
  (packages (append (list
                     ;; window managers
                     ratpoison i3-wm i3status dmenu
                     emacs emacs-exwm emacs-desktop-environment
                     awesome
                     ;; terminal emulator
                     xterm
                     ;; for HTTPS access
                     nss-certs)
                    %base-packages))

  ;; Use the "desktop" services, which include the X11
  ;; log-in service, networking with NetworkManager, and more.
  (services %desktop-services)

  ;; Allow resolution of '.local' host names with mDNS.
  (name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
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