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gnome-shell-3.24.2 consistently dies during initialization

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 27264 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kei Kebreau <kei <at> openmailbox.org>
Subject: bug#27264: gnome-shell-3.24.2 consistently dies during initialization
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:13:48 +0200

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Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> writes:
>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:
>>
>>> I have a question: Does GNOME 3 work for *anyone* in Guix now?  If so,
>>> that would be useful information.  If not, I wonder why this got merged
>>> into master.
>>
>> I'm sorry, I don't actually use GNOME and should have tested it before
>> pushing. I have been busy lately and didn't want to hold up the branch.
>
> In the future, I think that pushing an updated desktop environment to
> master should only be performed by someone who is able and willing to
> test it.  Modern desktop environments are quite complex, and many things
> can go wrong even if the code compiles.

I agree completely and take full responsibility for this breakage. There
were a couple of unfortunate events leading up to this: first the
'gnome-updates' branch got "destroyed"; causing it to be merged into
'staging', which in turn was holding up the 'core-updates' progress.

In the future I won't go through with such a large update without
getting feedback from actual users.

Mark, others: Can you try these patches and see if they work for you
(extracted from Keis patch).

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