Subject: Re: epiphany and next broken after webkitgtk upgrade to 2.26.1

From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 23:55:08 -0700

On 2019-09-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Both next and epiphany are very broken for me after the upgrade to
> webkitgtk to 2.26.1.
...
> $ epiphany
>
> ** (epiphany:16759): WARNING **: 21:18:10.796:
>    webkit_web_context_set_web_process_count_limit is deprecated and d
> wpe_loader_init could not load the library 'libWPEBackend-fdo-1.0.so':
>    libWPEBackend-fdo-1.0.so: cannot open shar
> wpe: could not load the impl library. Is there any backend installed?:
>    libWPEBackend-default.so: cannot open shar
> Aborted
>
> I don't have a capture of the "next" browser output handy, but it wasn't
> working either.

Ok, a little further ...

  guix environment --ad-hoc epiphany

Still fails in the same way... but!

  guix environment --pure --ad-hoc epiphany

Works fine!

So something in the... environment variables is causing problems? XDG*?

More debugging another day...

live well,
  vagrant