bug#26202: closed (Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start)

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XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start
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regarding Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user 
session to not start
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> Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start
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> Mon, 20 Mar 2017 23:24:13 -0300
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux)
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> * Steps to reproduce
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> 1. Edit "~/.profile" and add:
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> export GUIX_PROFILE="${HOME}/.guix-profile"
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS="${GUIX_PROFILE}/share${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
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> 2. Log out and try to log in again.
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> * Current behavior
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> The *host's* GNOME Flashback session (gnome-session
> --session=gnome-flashback) attempts to start, however, it's aborted
> shortly after successful log-in.
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> "~/.xsession-errors" file shows something similar to:
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> # Begin of file
> gnome-session: GLib-GIO-ERROR: Settings schema
> 'org.gnome.SessionManager' is not installed.
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> aborting...
> # End of file
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> * Additional information
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> - In this case, I'm using Trisquel 7.
> - `gnome-session` command is provided by the
>   "gnome-session-bin", version 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1+7.0trisquel2.
> - Display manager is lightdm (Trisquel 7's default), version
>   1.10.6-0ubuntu1+7.0trisquel1.
> - Being a "~/.profile" setting, the problem is not found unless the user
> - logs-out and back in.
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> * Personal comment
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> This might become a problem if Guix starts suggesting people to
> customize $XDG_DATA_DIRS in their "~/.profile".
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> Respectfully, Adonay.
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> Re: bug#26202: Guix in foreign distributions: setting XDG_DATA_DIRS causes user session to not start
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> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:46:20 -0400
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> Hi,
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> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
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> > Hi Nicolas,
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> > On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 19:32, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
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> >> Interesting.
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> > The Gnome that I use for testing is the Gnome from Debian.  The
> > initial bug report was about Trisquel/Ubuntu.
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> > - In this case, I'm using Trisquel 7.
> > - `gnome-session` command is provided by the
> >   "gnome-session-bin", version 3.9.90-0ubuntu12.1+7.0trisquel2.
> > - Display manager is lightdm (Trisquel 7's default), version
> >   1.10.6-0ubuntu1+7.0trisquel1.
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> I'm confident that this got resolved with
> 30810aff713149d53cb25f36ae6d721ec66385da and
> 7ff169d04f52b15393b33a97959e2cd6a5957e26 of guix-install.sh.
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> Closing!
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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