On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Christopher Baines wrote: > Ben Sturmfels <b...@stumbles.id.au> writes: > >> On Tue, 2019-04-23 at 21:33 +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: >>> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: >>> >>> > Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> writes: >>> > >>> > > On one system running GuixSD, Gnome Shell crashes when opening >>> > > the >>> > > activities overview (super key, or clicking on the activities >>> > > button in >>> > > the top left). >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639: >>> > > g_file_new_for_path: assertion 'path != NULL' failed >>> > > >>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:36:30.639: >>> > > g_loadable_icon_load: assertion 'G_IS_LOADABLE_ICON (icon)' >>> > > failed >>> > > >>> > > (.gnome-shell-real:2471): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:36:30.639: Could not >>> > > load a pixbuf from icon theme. >>> > > This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could >>> > > not be found. >>> > > ** >>> > > Gtk:ERROR:gtkicontheme.c:4261:gtk_icon_info_load_icon_finish: >>> > > assertion failed: (icon_info_get_pixbuf_ready (icon_info)) >>> > >>> > Could you try to see if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the environment >>> > where >>> > GNOME Shell is launched to the lib directory of the “gdk- >>> > pixbuf+svg” (or >>> > “gdk-pixbuf”) package makes any difference? >>> > >>> > You may need to do this in ~/.xsession and launch the gnome-session >>> > manually. >>> >>> It's been a while since I've experienced this issue, and I don't >>> think I >>> have the generation that was affected around anymore. >>> >>> If I remember, I think I may have worked around this by removing a >>> package, although I'm not sure which. >> >> Christopher, can you tell me how you found these error messages? I'm >> interested in troubleshooting to see if I'm having the same issue. >> >> All I can find is the following in /var/log/messages after I click >> "Activities", "Show Applications": >> >> Apr 24 13:56:34 localhost gnome-session-binary[857]: WARNING: >> Application 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' killed by signal 6 > > I think I ran `gnome-shell --replace` from a terminal, and watched the > output. You might also have some success writing to a log file, > e.g. `gnome-shell --replace 1>&2 | tee gnome-shell.log`.
Great, thanks Christopher. Wow, nice going Ricardo, that fixes the issue! I ran: $ find ~/.guix-profile/ -type d -wholename '*lib/gdk-pixbuf*' /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0 /home/ben/.guix-profile/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders and then: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-shell after which I could then select "Activities" and "Show Applications" without any problems. As you suggested was able to make the workaround persistent with: $ echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ben/.guix-profile/lib gnome-session" > ~/.xsession $ chmod a+x ~/.xsession Is there a way to fix this more permanently in Gnome? Regards, Ben
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