On 03/18/2017 01:50 AM, Joshua Branson wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I currently dual boot guixSD and Parabola. I use a macbook 7,1, and I > am unable to start an X server in guix as my normal user. I can login > to gnome via my root user, but obviously this is not ideal. I can login > to a virtual console as my normal user and access Emacs (yeah), but it > would be nice to be able to start gnome as my normal user. Just today I ran > > guix pull; sudo guix pull; guix system reconfigure /etc/gnome-xfce.scm > > > It updated fine. I rebooted and the problem still persists. Parabola > and guix have seperate / partitions, but they share the same /home. > I've set up guix to create my normal user (joshua) with a uid of 2000, > because that is the uid that the user joshua has on parabola. > > I'm attaching my config.scm file and some errors that I've found that > are probably relevant. Any help would be nice. >
So I’m not going to be of much help, but I want to rule out the obvious: For me most of the time GNOME starts only on the second log-in attempt on GuixSD. I assume you have tried logging in multiple times in a row? Other than that I see no significant differences between my config file and yours, but I haven’t tried. > grep EE Xorg.1.log > [ 47.080] Current Operating System: Linux parabola 4.10.1-gnu-1 #1 SMP > PREEMPT Mon Feb 27 17:40:02 UYT 2017 x86_64 > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > Why does your log say Parabola? Regards, Florian
