Updating this for what I see in guix (GNU Guix) 0.13.0.4589-74bea6 On 03/12/2016 at 19:43 myglc2 writes: > When running GuixSD on a headless server ... > > ssh > emacs > > ... produces emacs running in X but ... > > - all of the menu icons are missing except one ('file drawers') Icons are all OK now. Yeah! > - lots of messages are shooting in the tty session (sample below). [...] Now only two messages are being generated ... vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv g1@g1 ~$ emacs process 27189: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. ** (emacs-25-3:27189): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Attempting to follow the instructions in the first message, I installed dbus, but I don't see any dbus-uuidgen man page, or any other dbus man pages. The second message is referenced in bug#28088 ... Subject: bug#28088: "The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files" with multiple applications The messages seem harmless. Perhaps the bug should be downgraded? Current config: