GNU bug report logs - #27732
Changing display manager can render system unbootable

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:11:02 UTC

Severity: serious

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Done: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 27732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 27732 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27732: Changing display manager can render system unbootable
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:50:07 +0200

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> When changing display manager in the system configuration and invoking
> `guix system reconfigure`, the existing desktop environment will be
> killed. If you invoked the command from within said desktop environment,
> the reconfigure command will be forcefully terminated.

Why is the desktop environment killed?

From Guix’s viewpoint, the ‘xorg-server’ Shepherd service cannot be
restarted if it’s still running (and indeed, when I run ‘guix system
reconfigure’ from my X11 + Ratpoison setup, Xorg is not killed,
fortunately.)  Same for ‘dbus-system’ etc.

I don’t know what else could be killing GNOME et al.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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