From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Sample Subject: bug#35484: GDM failing to start stumpwm after merge Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:20:04 -0400 Message-ID: <87pnp4p4bf.fsf@ngyro.com> References: <87zho9cu2a.fsf@posteo.net> <87pnp5q7d2.fsf@ngyro.com> <87d0l4re46.fsf@ngyro.com> <31a3e9cda50ae26c7771c104fdbf97bb@posteo.net> <87y33spr33.fsf@ngyro.com> <87a7g8qq38.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLJKJ-0001kJ-C0 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:21:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLJKI-0007PC-5J for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:21:03 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hLJKI-0007Oz-1h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:21:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hLJKH-0004ci-TD for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Apr 2019 23:21:01 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87a7g8qq38.fsf@posteo.net> (Brett Gilio's message of "Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:44:27 -0500") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Brett Gilio Cc: 35484-done@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Brett, Brett Gilio writes: > Timothy Sample writes: > >> Hi Brett, >> >> [...] >> >> I can think of two options for a fix before 1.0 (which is supposed to be >> tomorrow!). The cute one is to just rename =E2=80=9CFail=E2=80=9D to = =E2=80=9C~Fail=E2=80=9D, on the >> expectation that this will come after most other names when sorted. The >> ugly one is to patch GDM to exclude the placeholder file when looking >> for =E2=80=9C.desktop=E2=80=9D files, and then to select it instead of r= aising an error >> when it can=E2=80=99t find anything. >> >> My preference is for the ugly one, because the cute one feels like >> putting a silly hack on top of silly hack =E2=80=93 it=E2=80=99s just a = bit too much. >> I=E2=80=99ve attached a patch. Thoughts? (If I don=E2=80=99t hear anyt= hing, I will >> push it =E2=80=93 it=E2=80=99s important that this works for 1.0). >> >> >> In the future, we should find a way to make GDM errors less >> catastrophic, but I doubt we could do that in a day (I certainly >> couldn=E2=80=99t)! >> >>> Thank you for looking into this Tim! I have gone back to SLiM for the >>> time being until it is fixed :). >>> >>> If anybody else is having this issue, going back to SLiM is really >>> easy, check out my commit for reference. >>> >>> https://github.com/brettgilio/guix-system/commit/64d389db13c2f78ee5c58a= f28c1639b098113c93 >> >> Thanks for providing this. Hopefully it helps anybody else having >> problems. >> >> >> -- Tim > > I think the uglier version is more generic and less likely to cause > future errors. But, it is a matter of time. The uglier one is likely > going to be more terse. > > Do you need any help on my end? No, but thank you for offering and thanks for catching my mistake before we released 1.0. :) I pushed e8c6e771c199c02b748eb66d3a03c46d2a32ca29 to master, which should fix this. Hence, I=E2=80=99m closing the bug. -- Tim