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Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: adfeno <at> hyperbola.info
Subject: bug#26202: closed (Re: bug#26202: Guix in foreign distributions:
 setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start)
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:47:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#26202: Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 26202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26202-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr>,
 adfeno <at> openmailbox.org
Subject: Re: bug#26202: Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS
 causes user session to not start
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:46:20 -0400

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 19:32, Nicolas Goaziou <mail <at> nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
>
>> Interesting.
>
> The Gnome that I use for testing is the Gnome from Debian.  The
> initial bug report was about Trisquel/Ubuntu.
>
> - In this case, I'm using Trisquel 7.
> - `gnome-session` command is provided by the
>   "gnome-session-bin", version 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1+7.0trisquel2.
> - Display manager is lightdm (Trisquel 7's default), version
>   1.10.6-0ubuntu1+7.0trisquel1.

I'm confident that this got resolved with
30810aff713149d53cb25f36ae6d721ec66385da and
7ff169d04f52b15393b33a97959e2cd6a5957e26 of guix-install.sh.

Closing!

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Thanks,
Maxim

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From: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno <at> openmailbox.org>
To: Relatórios de falhas do Guix e GuixSD <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user
 session to not start
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:24:13 -0300

* Steps to reproduce

1. Edit "~/.profile" and add:

export GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${GUIX_PROFILE}/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"

2. Log out and try to log in again.

* Current behavior

The *host's* GNOME Flashback session (gnome-session
--session=gnome-flashback) attempts to start, however, it's aborted
shortly after successful log-in.

"~/.xsession-errors" file shows something similar to:

# Begin of file
gnome-session: GLib-GIO-ERROR: Settings schema
'org.gnome.SessionManager' is not installed.

aborting...
# End of file

* Additional information

- In this case, I'm using Trisquel 7.
- `gnome-session` command is provided by the
  "gnome-session-bin", version 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1+7.0trisquel2.
- Display manager is lightdm (Trisquel 7's default), version
  1.10.6-0ubuntu1+7.0trisquel1.
- Being a "~/.profile" setting, the problem is not found unless the user
- logs-out and back in.

* Personal comment

This might become a problem if Guix starts suggesting people to
customize $XDG_DATA_DIRS in their "~/.profile".


Respectfully, Adonay.
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