Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnome.

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>]

Andreas Enge writes:

> This is due to the fact that %desktop-services includes wicd-service.

Thanks!  I got a vm with ssh service and gnome, using

    ...
    (packages
       (cons* gnome
              gnome-shell
              guile-wm
              nss-certs
              xkbutils
              %base-packages))

      (services
       (cons* (console-keymap-service "dvorak")
              ;; TODO: package dvorak-control
              (dhcp-client-service)
              (lsh-service #:port-number 2222
                           #:allow-empty-passwords? #t
                           #:root-login? #t)
              (postgresql-service)
              (filter
               (lambda (x)
                 (not (eq?
                       (service-kind x)
                       (@@ (gnu services networking) wicd-service-type))))
                      %desktop-services)))

That allowed me to log-in using ssh and investigate the

    `Oh no!  Something has gone wrong'

In /var/log/messages, it says

    Feb 29 23:00:10 localhost gnome-session-binary[582]: WARNING: software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code 1 

Although it is marked as a warning, this is probably the cause that
gnome session login fails.  I patched

    *-gnome-session-3.18.1.2/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop

to use

    Exec=gnome-session --disable-acceleration-check

but this seems to have no effect.  How is gnome-session started
in guix, what file should be patched?  Ideas?

Greetings,
Jan

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