GNU bug report logs - #34124
gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>

Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:01:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

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From: swedebugia <swedebugia <at> riseup.net>
To: 34124 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 12:28:36 +0200

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On 2019-04-25 15:20, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> 
> 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.

Nice work! 🙂

-- 
Cheers Swedebugia


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