I used a Qemu based guest in order to show the copious amount of errors and warnings that Gnome produces on GuixSD Here's the footage https://youtu.be/CmsCe52m0Ec And here's the text that I copied and pasted ... New session c1 of user catonano. /gnu/store/4pnaffshxik49fnvx2pjd8ks2q76lgyp-xauth-1.0.10/bin/xauth: file /home/catonano/.Xauthority does not exist <---- why doesn't this exist ? error in finalization thread: Successo [ 35.735839] fuse init (API version 7.26) _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created. Mar 17 13:53:51 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[450]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente ** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente Mar 17 13:53:51 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[451]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente ** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente Mar 17 13:53:51 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[452]: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente ** Message: couldn't access control socket: /run/user/1000/keyring/control: File o directory non esistente SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js 317]: reference to undefined property global.stage Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 217]: reference to undefined property global.window_group Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/osdMonitorLabeler.js 59]: reference to undefined property Meta.MonitorManager GNOME Shell-Message: Failed to launch ibus-daemon: Esecuzione del processo figlio «ibus-daemon» non riuscita (File o directory non esistente) [the execution of the child process "ibus-daemon" failed] Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/slider.js 34]: reference to undefined property St.GenericAccessible dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' requested by ':1.11' (uid=1000 pid=460 comm="/gnu/store/54z2mhvh8adiwx32c6w7f86wia0wi297-gnome-") (using servic) dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts' dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' requested by ':1.11' (uid=1000 pid=460 comm="/gnu/store/54z2mhvh8adiwx32c6w7f86wia0wi297-gnome-") (using servic) dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' requested by ':1.27' (uid=1000 pid=494 comm="/gnu/store/7c2qaw7s6b1dmy79n0s7wk7hl1j5qlrl-gvfs-1") (using service) dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2' Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/tweener/tweener.js 540]: reference to undefined property properties[istr].isSpecialProperty GNOME Shell-Message: No permission to trigger offline updates: Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update isd GNOME Shell-Message: Error loading calendars: Errore nel chiamare StartServiceByName per org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process or1 (gsd-sharing:538): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .ss (gsd-sharing:538): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .ss (gsd-sharing:538): sharing-plugin-WARNING **: Failed to StopUnit service: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.systemd1 was not provided by any .ss (gsd-rfkill:536): rfkill-plugin-WARNING **: Could not open RFKILL control device, please verify your installation dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' requested by ':1.36' (uid=1000 pid=527 comm="/gnu/store/wv0dr2lwb5j68qf74syvbzy3jq84cyq1-gnome-") (using se) dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' requested by ':1.36' (uid=1000 pid=527 comm="/gnu/store/wv0dr2lwb5j68qf74syvbzy3jq84cyq1-gnome-") (using servic) dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager' dbus-daemon[353]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' [ 49.214519] .colord-sane-re[633]: segfault at 30 ip 00007f630bcebbf4 sp 00007ffe1eacf570 error 4 in libpthread-2.26.so[7f630bce2000+19000] GNOME Shell-Message: Error looking up permission: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore was not provided by any .servics GNOME Shell-Message: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: gnome-shell not allowed to act as agent (gsd-color:527): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output (gsd-color:527): color-plugin-WARNING **: unable to get EDID for xrandr-default: unable to get EDID for output GNOME Shell started at Sat Mar 17 2018 13:53:57 GMT+0100 (CET) Gjs-Message: JS WARNING: [resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/workspace.js 1803]: reference to undefined property this._actualGeometryLater GNOME Shell-Message: Received error from DBus search provider org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop: Gio.IOErrorEnum: È stato raggiunto il timeout