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From: Luther Thompson <lutheroto@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35175: Cannot reconfigure
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 19:27:52 -0400
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 12:54:14 +0200
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:

> The reason for the error Luther encountered is because something is
> up with the gdm service.
>=20
> And that's because of
>=20
>                       (extend params (compose extensions)))
>=20
> And I guess the extension/composition mechanism of gdm is broken.
>=20
> There was a commit
>=20
> commit 0cf981a6066711f6e830a3f1d40f7c265b0bac94
> Author: Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org>
> Date:   Fri Apr 5 17:40:01 2019 +0200
>=20
>     services: gdm: Properly handle empty extensions lists.
>=20
> recently.
>=20
> @Luther: Could you try with the commit right before that change?

I think that's the commit that *fixed* the problem. It didn't work for
me until 2 days later, which may be due to the fact that `guix system
reconfigure` actually installs a system from a couple of `guix pull`s
ago. I know that by seeing the Linux versions in GRUB.

Luther