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pdfarranger breaks Gnome desktop when installed

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#77426: closed (pdfarranger breaks Gnome desktop when installed)
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:18:02 +0000

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From: Christopher O'Neill <guix <at> chrisoneill.co.uk>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: pdfarranger breaks Gnome desktop when installed
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:29:43 +0100

Having pdfarranger installed causes Gnome desktop to fail with the "Oh
no! Something has gone wrong!" screen. This occurs about 45 seconds
after login.

I think this started a few weeks ago when the Gnome updates were pushed
through.

I can't see anything relevant in /var/log/messages or /var/log/gdm/*

I've tried with pdfarranger installed via guix home and guix package,
with no difference. It works fine if I temporarily install it via guix
shell.

Please let me know if there's anything I can do to further diagnose what
may causing this.

Thanks.
Chris

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: Christopher O'Neill <guix <at> chrisoneill.co.uk>, 77426-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77426: pdfarranger breaks Gnome desktop when installed
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:17:10 +0900

Hi,

Christophe Pisteur <christophe.pisteur <at> fsfe.org> writes:

> I had the same problem since Gnome 46: even with a fresh install, as
> soon as I install pdfarranger 1.11.0, I get the message “oh no
> something has
> gone wrong...”. See:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2025-03/msg00148.html

It's weird that a few propagated Python packages could break GDM, but
I've fixed this particular occurrence by simply not propagating anything
from pdfarranger with commit edeafb19c4a: being an application (and not
a library), it doesn't need to make its own Python dependencies
available to the profile.

Closing; thanks for the report.

-- 
Maxim

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