Hi, [email protected] <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello, > > I see people mentioning here that there doesn't seem to be a general > solution to be included in Guix for this, but I als do not understand > what the particular solution (for my machine, for example) is supposed > to be. > I'm a new user to Guix and also not technically very experienced with > Linux OS's, so feel free to point me out something obvious I have > missed. > > I currently have Guix on top of Ubuntu 20.04, and I have this exact > problem with XDG_DATA_DIRS being exported on startup of Gnome and > breaking it, and i happend when this variable is added to > ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile when installing certain packages; the ones > detected so far where python-ipython, python-ipykernel and > python-notebook. That's been fixed in guix-install.sh with 23aafc800c9e678662766440916449ec5bbce830 from Philip McGrath (thanks!): "etc/guix-install.sh: Initialize XDG base directories." I've confirmed it fixes the original problem, which was that installing 'python-ipython' would break a GDM login to GNOME on Fedora, by installing the latest Guix via guix-install.sh on a Fedora 33 VM I had laying around, then 'guix install python-ipython', logout, then re-login without an issue. Closing! -- Thanks, Maxim
