Fis Trivial <ybbs.da...@hotmail.com> writes: > I tried to find out which environment variable is responsible for breaking > the gnome shell by disabling them in ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile one at a > time. > > It turns out to be the *GI_TYPELIB_PATH*. After commenting it out in the > profile > file my system works as usual. > > But then, this variable is not exported by installing ipython(otherwise it > will > let me know in the prompt after installation right?), so my guess would be > installing ipython brings in typelib of Gtk, then gnome used the wrong > .typelib > file and crashed.
This sounds similar to the following bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26202 It has been known for a while that certain environment variables might cause problems like this if they are not configured "correctly" on a foreign distribution. What is "correct" depends on the distro, it seems. For more discussion about this kind of issue in general, you might be interested in the following threads: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00031.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00161.html By the way, I found those threads by searching for the bug number 26202 on the email list archives: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=26202&submit=Search%21&idxname=help-guix&max=20&result=normal&sort=score The examples above were specific to Ubuntu and Trisquel (an Ubuntu derivative), I think. Perhaps you have discovered a new example of this kind of problem on Fedora. I wonder what Fedora is doing with GI_TYPELIB_PATH that causes this problem to occur for you? -- Chris
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