On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Raghav Gururajan wrote:
so I removed gnome-initial-setup from the propagated-inputs with the following
patch, and, indeed,
that resolved the problem with gdm on my system.
That's strange. Both our system share similar configuration. But for me
gdm works fine with gnome-initial-setup being present. This is
confusing.
Indeed, my system does have a really slow disk, so it would not surprise
me if that contributed to it. Of course that shouldn't matter, but that's
the only thing I can think it. It would be nice to hear if sirgazil can
reproduce the fix since I think they were having the same problem on their
computer.
While I'm still not exactly sure why this was causing gdm problems, and why
`herd restart
xorg-server` caused gdm to start working correctly, I think that removing
gnome-initial-setup from
the gnome meta-package is the right thing to do. Instead, perhaps it could be
provided via its own
service, auto-selected by the installer. If I recall correctly from other
distros (e.g. Fedora),
the gnome-initial-setup wizard is run from its own user on first boot, and
after it finishes, the
user is logged in as themselves. That said, gnome-initial-setup did seem to run
fine for me the
first time I logged into gnome after it was installed, and hasn't stared again.
Thoughts?
I would say debugging and fixing would be better than removing. Let me see what
I can do.
I agree that fixing is better than removing. Good luck debugging. I'm
happy to test, but am currently out of ideas.
P.S. Thanks Raghav for your work on making gnome in guix a better experience!
10-4 on the sarcasm. ;-)
I'm glad that you took this well :). However, while I'm often sarcastic, I
wasn't trying to be here. What I was trying to express was that while I'm
currently running my system with gnome-initial-setup removed doesn't mean
that I don't appreciate the change to make it present by default.
Fortunately for me, Guix makes this easy compared to other systems!
Best,
Jack
