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gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview

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Message #28 received at 34124-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>
Cc: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> stumbles.id.au>,
 34124-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:20:50 +0200

Hi Ben,

> I ran:
>
>   $ find ~/.guix-profile/ -type d -wholename '*lib/gdk-pixbuf*'
>   /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
>   /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0
>   /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
>
> and then:
>
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-shell
>
> after which I could then select "Activities" and "Show Applications"
> without any problems.
>
> As you suggested was able to make the workaround persistent with:
>
>   $ echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-session" > ~/.xsession
>   $ chmod a+x ~/.xsession
>
> Is there a way to fix this more permanently in Gnome?

Yes, I’ve fixed this on the staging branch for the gnome-shell package.
This also fixes another crash we saw when displaying notifications.

--
Ricardo

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