Subject: Epiphany fails to launch Evince

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:50:27 +0100

Hello,

When running Epiphany on a non-GNOME system with:

  guix environment --ad-hoc epiphany -- epiphany

and opening a PDF, it fails to launch Evince (referred to as
“Dokumentmontrilo” below :-)) and crashes:

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$ guix environment --ad-hoc epiphany -- epiphany

** (epiphany:2419): WARNING **: 09:33:46.938: webkit_web_context_set_web_process_count_limit is deprecated and does nothing. Limiting the number of web processes is no longer possible for security reasons
** Message: 09:33:47.162: Remote error from secret service: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

** (epiphany:2419): WARNING **: 09:33:47.162: Failed to search secrets in password schema: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

** (epiphany:2419): WARNING **: 09:45:47.949: Failed to acquire session inhibitor for active download. Is gnome-session running?

** (epiphany:2419): WARNING **: 09:45:51.859: Failed to launch Dokumentmontrilo: No s'ha pogut executar el procés fill «gio-launch-desktop» (Dosiero aŭ dosierujo ne ekzistas)

(epiphany:2419): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 09:45:51.860: g_app_info_launch_uris: assertion 'G_IS_APP_INFO (appinfo)' failed
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The problem is that ‘gio-launch-desktop’ is not found in $PATH.

Ludo’.