Re: libX11 not found after binary install of Guix

[Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>]

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Hi Ricado—

On 22 Feb 19:31 Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:
> > On a freshly installed Ubuntu 18.04 I installed Guix following the
> > instructions on, except for the fact that I did it from grml in a
> > chroot(8)ed environment
> >
> >     https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Binary-Installation.html
> >
> > Rebooting into Ubuntu I was happy to find that guix-daemon was running.
> > Then I tried install something:
> >
> > $ guix package -i hello
> > /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory  
> 
> Bash shouldn’t want to load libX11.so.6.  I wonder what prints this
> line.  Is your bashrc telling the shell to load extra libraries?  Could
> you share the output of “env” perhaps?

It is attached.

When I removed the LD_PRELOAD variable, the problem disappeared.  It
appears that spectrwm(1) sets LD_PRELOAD.  It looks like that spectrwm
keeps on working fine when I override it in my .bashrc.

> > At least on the host system it exists:
> >
> > $ ls -l $(locate libX11.so.6)
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Aug 29 20:18 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 -> libX11.so.6.3.0
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1277384 Aug 29 20:18 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6.3.0
> > $ file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6.3.0
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6.3.0: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=46d02d32191b5470a70bf6710997bf89b8b8ae38, stripped  
> 
> This shouldn’t matter.  Guix will not use things that are on your system
> unless you force it (e.g. via LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

This variable was not set.

Thanks for your help!

—Marco

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LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
LANG=en_GB.utf8
HISTCONTROL=
LESS=-R
DISPLAY=:0
_SWM_PID=8118
FER_DSETS=/scratch/fer_dsets
EDITOR=vi
PLOTFONTS=/Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/ferret/ppl/fonts
XDG_VTNR=7
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-2g3D9r9pYHlp/agent.2878
XDG_SESSION_ID=1
XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
USER=mhu027
PAGER=less
GUIX_LOCPATH=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/lib/locale
FER_GRIDS=/scratch/fer_dsets/grids
FER_DATA=. /Home/siv29/mhu027/ferret/complot/data /scratch/fer_dsets/data
PWD=/Home/siv29/mhu027/system/Guix
HOME=/Home/siv29/mhu027
SSH_AGENT_PID=2925
_SWM_WS=2
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
KRB5CCNAME=FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_96252_Bna6EJ
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
FER_FONTS=/Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/ferret/ppl/fonts
FER_DESCR=/scratch/fer_dsets/descr
TMPDIR=/tmp
SWM_STARTED=YES
XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(330)
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
WINDOWPATH=7
TERM=xterm
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SHLVL=2
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
MANPATH=:/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/share/man
WINDOWID=35651599
FER_DIR=/Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/ferret
XDG_CACHE_HOME=/var/cache/users/mhu027/.cache
LOGNAME=mhu027
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XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/96252
FER_GO=/Home/siv29/mhu027/ferret/complot/scripts /Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/ferret/go /Home/siv29/mhu027/ferret/scripts_UiB
PATH=/home/mhu027/.guix-profile/bin:/home/mhu027/.config/guix/current/bin:/Home/siv29/mhu027/bin:/Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/opt/puppetlabs/bin
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/spectrwm/libswmhack.so.0.0
FER_PALETTE=/Home/siv29/mhu027/ferret/complot/palettes /Home/siv29/mhu027/ferret/palettes /Home/siv29/mhu027/installed/ferret/ppl
XTERM_LOCALE=en_DK.UTF-8
GTK_IM_MODULE=xim
_=/usr/bin/env
OLDPWD=/Home/siv29/mhu027/system