From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
Cc: "30093@debbugs.gnu.org" <30093@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#30093: Installing python-ipython breaks Gnome on Fedora.
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:36:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sitcm4j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR16MB0063CDD625964B3F1D8F044092140@MWHPR16MB0063.namprd16.prod.outlook.com> (Fis Trivial's message of "Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:39:49 +0000")
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Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com> writes:
> I tried to find out which environment variable is responsible for breaking
> the gnome shell by disabling them in ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile one at a time.
>
> It turns out to be the *GI_TYPELIB_PATH*. After commenting it out in the profile
> file my system works as usual.
>
> But then, this variable is not exported by installing ipython(otherwise it will
> let me know in the prompt after installation right?), so my guess would be
> installing ipython brings in typelib of Gtk, then gnome used the wrong .typelib
> file and crashed.
This sounds similar to the following bug:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26202
It has been known for a while that certain environment variables might
cause problems like this if they are not configured "correctly" on a
foreign distribution. What is "correct" depends on the distro, it
seems.
For more discussion about this kind of issue in general, you might be
interested in the following threads:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00031.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00161.html
By the way, I found those threads by searching for the bug number 26202
on the email list archives:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=26202&submit=Search%21&idxname=help-guix&max=20&result=normal&sort=score
The examples above were specific to Ubuntu and Trisquel (an Ubuntu
derivative), I think. Perhaps you have discovered a new example of this
kind of problem on Fedora. I wonder what Fedora is doing with
GI_TYPELIB_PATH that causes this problem to occur for you?
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Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-14 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-12 21:32 bug#30093: Installing python-ipython breaks Gnome on Fedora Fis Trivial
2018-01-13 21:39 ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-14 0:36 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2018-01-14 18:31 ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-14 19:01 ` Fis Trivial
2018-01-14 22:25 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-15 0:45 ` Chris Marusich
2018-01-17 19:53 ` Fis Trivial
2020-10-04 18:25 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-19 16:14 ` bug#30093: what manual workaround? tomas.almeida
2021-05-24 0:16 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2021-05-24 10:30 ` tomas.almeida
2022-09-29 2:50 ` bug#30093: Installing python-ipython breaks Gnome on Fedora Maxim Cournoyer
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