GNU bug report logs - #38309
Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:27:01 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: clement <at> lassieur.org (Clément Lassieur)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:25:33 +0000

After upgrading my packages today, gnome-session started segfaulting. I think I finally tracked the problem down to the recent changes in how Emacs searches for packages. Apparently Emacs now uses the search path $EMACSLOADPATH. Unfortunately, this is a very long value on my system:

$ echo $EMACSLOADPATH | wc -c
22525

When I add `unset EMACSLOADPATH` to the end of `~/.profile`, GNOME works again.

-- 
Alex Griffin
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