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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 27732@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27732: Changing display manager can render system unbootable
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:50:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a841yhv4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874lub74st.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2017 12:09:54 +0200")

Hello,

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:

> When changing display manager in the system configuration and invoking
> `guix system reconfigure`, the existing desktop environment will be
> killed. If you invoked the command from within said desktop environment,
> the reconfigure command will be forcefully terminated.

Why is the desktop environment killed?

From Guix’s viewpoint, the ‘xorg-server’ Shepherd service cannot be
restarted if it’s still running (and indeed, when I run ‘guix system
reconfigure’ from my X11 + Ratpoison setup, Xorg is not killed,
fortunately.)  Same for ‘dbus-system’ etc.

I don’t know what else could be killing GNOME et al.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-17 10:09 bug#27732: Changing display manager can render system unbootable Marius Bakke
2017-07-17 11:47 ` ng0
2017-07-18 13:50 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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