Xfce 4.12.0 won't start

Xfce 4.12.0 won't start

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Guix,

I just upgraded my GuixSD test machine with "guix pull && guix package
-u".  One of the upgrades was Xfce 4.10 -> 4.12.

After rebooting Xfce no longer starts.  My ~/.xsession script only runs
"exec startxfce4".  I noticed that the startxfce4 script is provided by
both "xfce" and "xfce-session".

startxfce4 fails with this error:

  /gnu/store/...-xfce4-session-4.12.0/bin/startxfce4: line 118: exec: xinit: not found

After installing the "xinit" package I get this error on running
"startxfce4":

  xinit: error while loading shared libraries: /gnu/store/...-libxdmcp-1.1.1/lib/libXdmcp.so.6: file too short.

Has anyone else run into issues like this?

~~ Ricardo

Re: Xfce 4.12.0 won't start

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> After rebooting Xfce no longer starts.  My ~/.xsession script only runs
> "exec startxfce4".  I noticed that the startxfce4 script is provided by
> both "xfce" and "xfce-session".

Yes, but xfce is a union of various xfce packages.  What does:

  guix package -I xfce

return?

It might be that, during the upgrade, ‘xfce-session’ ended up before
‘xfce’ in the union, and so you end up running the “wrong” ‘startxfce4’.
(This is pure speculation though, as I don’t use it myself.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Re: Xfce 4.12.0 won't start

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> After rebooting Xfce no longer starts.  My ~/.xsession script only runs
>> "exec startxfce4".  I noticed that the startxfce4 script is provided by
>> both "xfce" and "xfce-session".
>
> Yes, but xfce is a union of various xfce packages.  What does:
>
>   guix package -I xfce
>
> return?

It returns:

  xfce  4.12.0  out  /gnu/store/v387gvhddd...-xfce-4.12.0

~~ Ricardo