Re: after sudo system reconfigure ... MATE desktop does not work anymore

[gfp]

Hi Luis,

Could you please share the revision of Guix you're using? I tried MATE

in a virtual machine and I could use the application launcher and the other menus, but I'm probably using an older guix revision (4fccad83875cf8f5846b181525f814ce5c240ef9).

thanks

Gottfried


gfp@Tuxedo ~$ guix system describe
Generation 69   22. Februar 2025 20:14:36       (aktuell)
  Dateiname: /var/guix/profiles/system-69-link
  kanonischer Dateiname: /gnu/store/driyfdcphinz0rrd7k9cpz6xvq4v8r0r-system
  Bezeichnung: GNU with Linux-Libre 6.13.3
  Bootloader: grub-efi
  Root-Gerät: UUID: 4fb0ed7c-61ab-45eb-be0b-ff527b320e6d

  Kanäle:
    guix:
      Repository-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
      Branch: master
      Commit: 1fbc2625d23b782d60d96b4a4cd037df6d30df40




Am 24.02.25 um 14:57 schrieb Luis Felipe:

Kernel: /gnu/store/xp54qjqridxih5j8j0krsxrjlymmvg3x-linux-libre-6.13.3/bzImage Konfigurationsdatei: /gnu/store/y89ds8bajd59zl73h22dgd0js7wp95xh-configuration.scm

Hi Gottfried,

On 22/02/25 19:55, gfp wrote:

I updated my packages
and after that I did a
sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

and MATE Desktop does not start properly.

So there is no GUI interface more for the application launcher.

It starts but the whole application launcher with all the packages and menus showing up, doesn´t come up any more. It always wants to start, but can´t.

Could you please share the revision of Guix you're using? I tried MATE in a virtual machine and I could use the application launcher and the other menus, but I'm probably using an older guix revision (4fccad83875cf8f5846b181525f814ce5c240ef9). I'm wondering whether the problem you're seeing is related to stale cache and configuration files in your home folder. When using GNOME, for example, sometimes stale files lead to problems that break the desktop. We'd have to find out which MATE-related directories you can delete so that you can try restarting the desktop session and see whether the problem is solved when MATE creates the necessary files afresh.

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