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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 53233@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53233: installing gnome-terminal on a foreign distribution causes login to fail
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:04:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735lrz6rs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YeBrIFJXfM72aYK/@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:10:40 -0500")

Hi Leo!

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:42:18PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> Hello Guix,
>> 
>> I'm lacking investigation detail, but this seems worthy of reporting.
>> 
>> I had tested installing gnome-terminal from guix on top of a Debian
>> stable distribution, and was surprised that login would not longer work
>> (!)  until I 'guix remove gnome-terminal' from a TTY.
>
> On Debian 11 (current stable), I did this:
>
>                              recent commit, from today
> 			     |
> ------                       ▼
> $ guix time-machine --commit=ea71ec1630e06503c14c6e7f4570b69de4e42123 -- install gnome-terminal
> $ gnome-terminal
> # Error creating terminal: The name org.gnome.Terminal was not provided by any .service files
> $
> ------

Yes, this is because gnome-terminal installs dbus services that aren't
found without messing with the host dbus config.

> So, it doesn't work in general. But, it also doesn't break login. I
> tried `bash --login` and also logged in from the console in another TTY.
>
> However, my system doesn't use a desktop environment or login manager. I
> login from the console and run `startx`.

OK, perhaps this explains why.  My testing was with GDM/GNOME atop
Debian 9.

Thanks for trying it!

Maxim




      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-13 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-13 17:42 bug#53233: installing gnome-terminal on a foreign distribution causes login to fail Maxim Cournoyer
2022-01-13 18:10 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-13 21:04   ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]

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