From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MATE on gdm
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:15:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvfhiirr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOYpmvoUB8Y0eoDVjxj=2WqfkqPsA+ZNXxr-asmfN=Z89UeOjQ@mail.gmail.com> (Guy fleury's message of "Mon, 1 Apr 2019 14:45:17 +0200")
Hello Guy,
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Guy fleury <hoonandon@gmail.com> skribis:
> i'm trying to build this attached system config with both gnome desktop and mate desktop(i changed nothing except where are gnome to mate). At the end I get this error:
> ==================================================
> To complete the upgrade, run 'herd restart SERVICE' to stop,
> upgrade, and restart each service that was not automatically restarted.
> shepherd: Evaluating user expression (let* ((services (map primitive-load (?))) # ?) ?).
> guix system: error: exception caught while executing 'start' on service 'user-homes':
> Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern" "#<<user-account> name: \"root\" password: \"\" uid: 0 group: \"root\" supplementary-groups: () comment: \"System administrator\"
> home-directory: #<procedure home-directory (x)> create-home-directory?: #t shell: \"/gnu/store/qn1ax1fkj16x280m1rv7mcimfmn9l2pf-bash-4.4.23/bin/bash\" system?: #f>")'.
> bootloader successfully installed on '/dev/sda'
> ===============================================
> but i continue with "guix system reconfigure"
Yes, there error above is harmless; it occurs when upgrading from a
relatively old Guix.
> * or the recent use of gdm doesn't yet be tested for mate(someone to test?)
I don’t think we explicitly tested GDM with MATE, but it should work.
What problems did you have with MATE specifically?
Note that it’s usually easier to test these things in a VM, with ‘guix
system vm’.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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2019-04-01 12:45 ` MATE on gdm Guy fleury
2019-04-01 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-01 20:39 ` Guy fleury
2019-04-03 16:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-03 19:16 ` Guy fleury
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