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[BUG] guix home: on foreign distro, ~/.bash_profile is not initialized

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From: Andrew Tropin <andrew <at> trop.in>
To: florhizome <florhizome <at> posteo.net>, Liliana Marie Prikler
 <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>, 54354 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54354: [BUG] guix home: on foreign distro, ~/.bash_profile
 is not initialized
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 12:47:45 +0400

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On 2022-03-20 14:09, florhizome wrote:

> Hi Liliana,
>
> Hm, well it doesn't seem like the exact same issue, but that thread is
> helpful. Could systemd/logind be made to use bash for login?

Login shell is usually controlled by /etc/passwd, so it shouldn't
inerfer with systemd, elogind.

> For now I thought maybe I can just write shepherd services to do
> that stuff for me, to stay in guix homes framework. But shepherd seems
> to have a problem starting up:
>
> /gnu/store/y85vzni5yc6lcb7qqhmlkifis9nzmm5l-shepherd.conf wird geladen.
> herd: Ausnahmefehler während der Ausführung von »load« mit dem Dienst »root«:
> In procedure fport_write: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler
>
> If you don't speak german, that roughly translates to:
>
> loading /gnu/store/...-shepherd.conf
> herd: exception error during the execution of <<load>> with the service
> <<root>>:
> In procedure fport_write: i/o error
>
> I got the same error when reconfiguring with two differing simple
> service configurations (just start a program from a package) passed to shepherd.
> In anyway I think it would be good to add to guix home's documentation that some features might not work
> due to the login system of a foreign distro if we are sure of that?
>

There were a few fixes related to shepherd service, which probably fixes
it.  Can you confirm this?  Or issue is still valid?

Is the whole issue 54354 still valid?

-- 
Best regards,
Andrew Tropin

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