Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:

[...]

> I need my remote profile to be loaded because all hosts I manage have
> Guix [2] installed and all needed environment variables are set by the
> user profile; here is an example of a "M-x shell" remote connection to a
> guix host (foreign distro), the same holds for "M-x eshell":
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> /ssh:local.biscuolo.anemone:/localhome/g/ #$ guix describe
>   guix 3676e31
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     commit: 3676e312aaf1ce10ed1d7844e871b54e04624098
> /ssh:local.biscuolo.anemone:/localhome/g/ #$ $SHELL -l
> (anemone)g@anemone:~$ guix describe
> Generation 9	Apr 21 2021 09:23:33	(current)
>   guix 13c4a37
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 13c4a377f5a2e1240790679f3d5643385b6d7635
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> (as you can see, without proper environment guix is not able to run as
> it should)

Please forgive me for the noise: the problem is in the environment of
(one of) my remote user!

I tested again with other users on other hosts and the environment
variables of my profile are correctly set.

Anyway, the shell I get when connecting is still not fully functional,
for example autocompletion does not work (write a substring and then
TAB) and also up and down arrow keys do not work (echoes escape
sequances instead of showing the shell history)

Am I still doing something wrong with my environment?

Ouch!  Gio'

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Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures