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Emacs fails to start with "List contains a loop" error

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From: Alexandre Hannud Abdo <abdo <at> member.fsf.org>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Cc: 75709 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75709: also with guix home
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:13:45 +0100

Ni! Thanks for your comments, Thiago. Emacs is not installed by my system config. And as I said my sisem is very plain and any details I haven't provided are unrelated to emacs. .~´

Le 23/01/2025 à 17:23, Thiago Jung Bauermann a écrit :
> Hello Alexandre,
>
> Alexandre Hannud Abdo <abdo <at> member.fsf.org> writes:
>
>> Having the same issue here.
>>
>> I'm using `emacs-pgtk` with Guix Home on Guix System, so it's Guix (Home) itself is
>> producing all my profile variables and shell init scripts.
>>
>> My home configuration is very plain and doesn't touch shell init in any relevant
>> way. Here's the bash-config part:
>>
>> ```
>> (home-bash-configuration
>>                     (aliases '(("ema" . "emacs -nw")
>>                                ("emc" . "emacsclient -nw")))
>>                     (environment-variables '(("EDITOR" . "emacs"))))
>> ```
> I don't use Guix System nor Guix Home, so it's unwise for me to
> speculate. But I'll do it anyway. :)
>
> Perhaps you have Emacs packages installed in both the system configuration
> and the home configuration? Perhaps that could be causing the
> environment variable to be set at two different places?
>
> In any case, there does seem to be some issue with Guix System or Guix Home.
>
>> And just in case, here are the list of 'emacs-' packages in my home profile:
>>
>> ```
>> "emacs-atomic-chrome"
>> "emacs-company"
>> "emacs-geiser"
>> "emacs-geiser-guile"
>> "emacs-guix"
>> "emacs-ibuffer-vc"
>> "emacs-magit"
>> "emacs-marginalia"
>> "emacs-markdown-mode"
>> "emacs-nov-el"
>> "emacs-olivetti"
>> "emacs-paredit"
>> "emacs-pgtk"
>> "emacs-python-black"
>> "emacs-undo-tree"
>> "emacs-yaml-mode"
>> "emacs-yasnippet"
>> "emacs-yasnippet-snippets"
>> ```
>>
>> Does this help spot something? What can I do to help?
> The issue in the Emacs package was already spotted by Liliana, but to
> spot what could be the problem with Guix System / Guix Home, the best
> option is to give enough information so that someone else can reproduce
> the problem you're seeing.
>
> That would be either your full system and home configurations (if you
> are comfortable providing them), or (even better) a trimmed down version
> of the system and home ocnfigurations that still reproduce the problem.
>
> --
> Thiago

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