libX11 not found after binary install of Guix

libX11 not found after binary install of Guix

[Marco van Hulten]

Hi all—

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

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

but it is not in the Store:

$ ls -d /gnu/store/*libx11*
ls: cannot access '/gnu/store/*libx11*': No such file or directory

Should it be there?

What could've gone wrong?

—Marco

Re: libX11 not found after binary install of Guix

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> Hi all—
>
> 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?

> 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).

-- 
Ricardo

Re: libX11 not found after binary install of Guix

[Marco van Hulten]

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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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