Hi, i found a bug with gdm. I had the same issue on 2 hardware devices running sway and exwm.
I testet it again in a vm and got the same error. I installed the vm via tui installer and chosed xfce4. After booting in to the installed machine I updatet trough guix pull guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm I never touched the generatet config.scm! current describtion: shi@gnuguixtest ~$ guix describe guix 230aa37 repository URL: https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git branch: master commit: 230aa373f315f247852ee07dff34146e9b480aec After updating i rebootet the device and got stuck on the tty welcome screen saying: " This is the GNU system. Welcom. gnuguixtest login: " Then I ssh into the machine and viewed /var/log/gdm/greeter.log shi@gnuguixtest ~$ sudo -i cat /var/log/gdm/greeter.log (process:389): dconf-WARNING **: 20:56:41.374: unable to open named profile (gdm): using the null configuration. GNU Shepherd 1.0.9 (Guile 3.0.9, Fibers 1.4.3, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Starting service root... Service root started. Service root running with value #<<process> id: 389 command: #f>. Service root has been started. Registering services ;;; ((#<<gs-service> service: #<service (gnome-session-dbus) 7f34aa9e0b60> autostart?: #t phase: "EarlyInitialization"> #<<gs-service> service: #<service (gnome-session-meta) 7f34aa9e0af0> autostart?: #t phase: "Application"> #<<gs-service> service: #<service (at-spi-dbus-bus) 7f34aa674d20> autostart?: #f phase: "Initialization">)) Registering gnome-session-dbus Registering gnome-session-meta Registering at-spi-dbus-bus Entering EarlyInitialization phase Starting: gnome-session-dbus Starting service gnome-session-dbus... Service gnome-session-dbus started. Service gnome-session-dbus running with value #<<process> id: 419 command: ("/gnu/store/0giy4qamz0vpfkgq44pxqr9b5nxnar9p-gnome-session-shepherd-1.0/libexec/gnome-session-service")>. Service gnome-session-dbus has been started. Entering PreDisplayServer phase Starting: Entering DisplayServer phase Starting: Entering Initialization phase Starting: Entering WindowManager phase Starting: Entering Panel phase Starting: Entering Desktop phase Starting: Entering Application phase Starting: gnome-session-meta Uncaught exception in task: In fibers.scm: 179:8 6 (_) In shepherd/service.scm: 985:28 5 (_) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1752:10 4 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) In shepherd/service.scm: 1034:28 3 (start-service #<service (gnome-session-meta) 7f34aa9e0…>) In srfi/srfi-1.scm: 586:17 2 (map1 (org.gnome.Shell gnome-session-dbus)) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) 1683:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) ice-9/boot-9.scm:1683:16: In procedure raise-exception: ERROR: 1. &missing-service-error: org.gnome.Shell Service gnome-session-dbus (PID 419) exited with 1. Service gnome-session-dbus has been disabled. after adding (specification->package "gnome-shell") as a package: (packages (append (list (specification->package "gnome-shell") ) %base-packages) ) after reconfiguring the system I rebootet and gdm worked again shi@gnuguixtest ~$ guix describe guix 64d4de2 repository URL: https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git branch: master commit: 64d4de2a920445e5992f020e56490f5fcbdbba7c -- Just want to say thank you for maintaining Guix I know it's mostly volunteer work, and it really shows in how thoughtfully the whole system is put together. Happy to help test a fix or provide more info if it's useful. Thanks for everything you do for Guix <3
