jami-client-gnome not connecting to daemon

[nightowl]

I have been trying out the jami-client-gnome application.  I had this 
working between two computers, one running guixSD, but after I updated 
the guix distribution, I get an error when I start jami.  It says,

'could not re-connect to the jami daemon'

Then it quits.  The last couple of updates to guix seem to have changed 
a few things, for one I notice the gnome desktop manager is now used for 
the login.  I had some troubles with the network service not starting, 
but that seems ok now though I did not do anything in particular to 
address that.  I ask herd it's status and it says following services are 
stopped:

elogind
ntpd
term-auto
upower-daemon
user-homes

Though gnome desktop seems to be operating ok without these.  Is that 
ok, or could it be contributing to the problem with jami?

I also get a generic icon for jami in the menu but that has been the 
case ever since I installed it.  Should there be an icon for jami?

I am wondering how to get jami working again.