bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-22 Thread Joshua Branson
So I’ve gotten responses for this on the help-guix mailing list and in the guix-bugs list. I’ll try to just respond to the bug mailing list so the conversation is in one place. I did login as root, run guix system vm /etc/gnome-xfce.scm; A vm popped up. I could not login as joshua, but I co

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-21 Thread Florian Pelz
I believe my unreliable launching of GNOME is unrelated. For me, /var/log/messages shows output like Mar 21 11:53:31 localhost vmunix: [ 86.47] .gnome-session-[442]: segfault at 0 ip 7f7b3141fce9 sp 7ffd69b89560 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.2200.6[7f7b3114a000+6ed000] after a crash whic

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-20 Thread Joshua Branson
I ran as "joshua" guix package -I xf86-video-intel and guix package -I xf86-video-nouveau Guix had no output on either of those commands, which means neither is installed for my user joshua right? BUT I can login to gnome as root. So obviously one of those xf86-video-* is installed in my

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > Does > > guix package -i xf86-video-intel > > or > > guix package -i xf86-video-nouveau > > help (or whatever else your GPU is from `guix package -s xf86-video-`)? Xorg wouldn’t pick up video drivers installed in the user’s profile, so this shouldn’t make

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-18 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Does guix package -i xf86-video-intel or guix package -i xf86-video-nouveau help (or whatever else your GPU is from `guix package -s xf86-video-`)? Regards, Florian

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Yes sir. I've tried logging in multiple times. I did it just now to be sure. I tried logging in 3 times for each of the desktops I have installed: Gnome on X, Gnome (which I assume is on wayland), and on xfce.I could not log in. But when I tried logging in as root, it worked just fine. :)

bug#26158: GNOME starts unreliably

2017-03-18 Thread Leo Famulari
- Forwarded message from "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" - Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:50:49 +0100 From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" To: help-g...@gnu.org Subject: Re: I can only start an X server in guix as root User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45