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gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting propagates to entire session

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37123: closed (gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting
 propagates to entire session)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:58:02 +0000

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting propagates to entire session
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:21:37 -0400

Since commit 2b0c755d195c79bfc95cdbe802e1e2dea1adb7a2 in August 2018,
our 'gnome-shell' executable has been wrapped by a script that sets
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

One consequence of this, which I just noticed, is that if 'gnome-shell'
is based on 'core-updates' (or in my case, 'core-updates-next'), many
programs based on 'master' will fail to run within the resulting GNOME
session.

I ran into this issue because I recently rebuilt my Guix system based on
'core-updates-next' and booted into it, although it will take more time
to finish rebuilding my user profile.  Many programs, including Emacs
and Nautilus, fail to launch.  A workaround is to launch a terminal,
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH within the resulting shell, and then manually run
the other programs from within that shell.  (Since then, I've built a
trimmed-down version of my profile based on 'core-updates-next'.)

I was unable to easily find an existing bug report tracking this issue,
so I created this one.

       Mark

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 37123-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting propagates to entire session
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:54:51 +0000

Commit f1fd313e486491caf1ff5874810f2ee06091e825 removes LD_LIBRARY_PATH
from the wrapper.  That’s on core-updates-frozen.

I reconfigured my system with this change and gnome-shell starts up
fine, and things like Gnome Weather work correctly.  So I’m pretty
confident that we no longer need to do this.

Yay!

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Ricardo

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