From: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 34124@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 21:34:33 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imv3iqly.fsf@sturm.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r29rzyp1.fsf@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:47:54 +0100")
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Ben Sturmfels <ben@stumbles.id.au> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 21:33 +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>> > Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>>> >
>>> > > On one system running GuixSD, Gnome Shell crashes when opening
>>> > > the
>>> > > activities overview (super key, or clicking on the activities
>>> > > button in
>>> > > the top left).
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639:
>>> > > g_file_new_for_path: assertion 'path != NULL' failed
>>> > >
>>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639:
>>> > > g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)'
>>> > > failed
>>> > >
>>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:36:30.639: Could not
>>> > > load a pixbuf from icon theme.
>>> > > This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could
>>> > > not be found.
>>> > > **
>>> > > Gtk:ERROR:gtkicontheme.c:4261:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish:
>>> > > assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info))
>>> >
>>> > Could you try to see if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment
>>> > where
>>> > GNOME Shell is launched to the lib directory of the “gdk-
>>> > pixbuf+svg” (or
>>> > “gdk-pixbuf”) package makes any difference?
>>> >
>>> > You may need to do this in ~/.xsession and launch the gnome-session
>>> > manually.
>>>
>>> It's been a while since I've experienced this issue, and I don't
>>> think I
>>> have the generation that was affected around anymore.
>>>
>>> If I remember, I think I may have worked around this by removing a
>>> package, although I'm not sure which.
>>
>> Christopher, can you tell me how you found these error messages? I'm
>> interested in troubleshooting to see if I'm having the same issue.
>>
>> All I can find is the following in /var/log/messages after I click
>> "Activities", "Show Applications":
>>
>> Apr 24 13:56:34 localhost gnome-session-binary[857]: WARNING:
>> Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 6
>
> I think I ran `gnome-shell --replace` from a terminal, and watched the
> output. You might also have some success writing to a log file,
> e.g. `gnome-shell --replace 1>&2 | tee gnome-shell.log`.
Great, thanks Christopher. Wow, nice going Ricardo, that fixes the
issue!
I ran:
$ find ~/.guix-profile/ -type d -wholename '*lib/gdk-pixbuf*'
/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0
/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
and then:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-shell
after which I could then select "Activities" and "Show Applications"
without any problems.
As you suggested was able to make the workaround persistent with:
$ echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-session" > ~/.xsession
$ chmod a+x ~/.xsession
Is there a way to fix this more permanently in Gnome?
Regards,
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-24 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-18 11:59 bug#34124: gnome-shell crash when opening the activities overview Christopher Baines
2019-04-23 12:01 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-23 12:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-23 20:33 ` Christopher Baines
2019-04-24 4:07 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-24 6:47 ` Christopher Baines
2019-04-24 11:34 ` Ben Sturmfels [this message]
2019-04-25 13:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-25 13:23 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-28 10:28 ` swedebugia
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