From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: 37123@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37123: gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting propagates to entire session
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:21:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhk3tzfn.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
Since commit 2b0c755d195c79bfc95cdbe802e1e2dea1adb7a2 in August 2018,
our 'gnome-shell' executable has been wrapped by a script that sets
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
One consequence of this, which I just noticed, is that if 'gnome-shell'
is based on 'core-updates' (or in my case, 'core-updates-next'), many
programs based on 'master' will fail to run within the resulting GNOME
session.
I ran into this issue because I recently rebuilt my Guix system based on
'core-updates-next' and booted into it, although it will take more time
to finish rebuilding my user profile. Many programs, including Emacs
and Nautilus, fail to launch. A workaround is to launch a terminal,
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH within the resulting shell, and then manually run
the other programs from within that shell. (Since then, I've built a
trimmed-down version of my profile based on 'core-updates-next'.)
I was unable to easily find an existing bug report tracking this issue,
so I created this one.
Mark
next reply other threads:[~2019-08-20 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-20 19:21 Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-08-20 19:38 ` bug#37123: gnome-shell: LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting propagates to entire session Ricardo Wurmus
2019-11-13 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-02 9:54 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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