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/etc/profile not being sourced from interactive non-login shell

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From: Kyle Andrews <kyle.c.andrews <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: /etc/profile not being sourced from interactive non-login shell
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:17:58 -0400

Despite what it says in my ~.bashrc~, if I start a shell from Emacs with
the elisp below, then `guix describe` does not work:

  (let ((default-directory "/ssh:me <at> remote:/home/me"))
      (shell "*shell<remote>*"))

Of course, if I start a shell normally with ~M-x shell~ in Emacs, then
type out the ssh command, ~/etc/profile~ does get sourced.

I learned about this by following the advice of nckx from IRC, placing
`set -x` in my .bash_profile. Following the former routine in Emacs I
see nothing, but with the explicit ssh call I do see all the commands
echo'd.

Is this a bug in Guix or Emacs? In other words, should the Bash
configuration files be extended to handle this case? I thought my system
might be broken, but nckx showed me that I could just `. /etc/profile`
and then guix describe started working again.

Best Regards,
Kyle

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