Hi Guix, Sorry about the vterm escapes, but perhaps it's easy to see for someone anyway?
Both lynxes started and both use the same lynx.cfg and lynx.lss in /etc/. I selected a bookmark link to duckduckgo and /usr/bin/lynx got there, but guix lynx did not. Either way, I just exited lynx, so make the strace as small as possible. The first lines from the greps show a TLS difference -- (why? different internal defaults?) and is that the explanation? Can I fix it with /etc/lynx.cfg? guix describe: Generation 22 Nov 08 2019 17:49:27 (current) guix be4f2d9 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: be4f2d9451344701599b6dc000c0345ce53b2128 The respective lynxes: /gnu/store/7vwm0ly476k7p2spbwxsqr2p7khg69yc-lynx-2.8.9rel.1/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /gnu/store/h90vnqw0nwd0hhm1l5dgxsdrigddfmq4-glibc-2.28/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped /usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=9a1efceaaead8942151b0719125d63cbd4e296cf, stripped Results: --8<----(guix lynx)-----------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [12:07 ~/bs]$ egrep -E '(Alert|TLS|HTTP)' lynx-gx.strace 122385 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mSecure 256-bit TLS1.3 (ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) HTTP co"..., 91) = 91 122385 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mnding HTTP request.\33[K", 42) = 42 122385 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mHTTP request sent; w", 40) = 40 122385 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[41mAlert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.\33["..., 81) = 81 122385 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[41mAlert!: Unable to access document.\33[K", 57) = 57 --8<----(guix lynx)-----------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- --8<----(ArchLinux lynx)-----------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [12:07 ~/bs]$ egrep -E '(Alert|TLS|HTTP)' lynx-usr.strace 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mSecure 256-bit TLSv1.3 (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) HTTP connect"..., 86) = 86 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mnding HTTP request.", 39) = 39 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mHTTP request sent; w", 40) = 40 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mHTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily", 50) = 50 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mSecure 256-bit TLSv1.3 (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) HTTP connect"..., 86) = 86 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mnding HTTP request.", 39) = 39 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mHTTP request sent; w", 40) = 40 122308 write(1</dev/tty3>, "\33[0;10;1m\17\33[33m\33[44mHTTP/1.1 200 OK\33[K", 38) = 38 --8<----(ArchLinux lynx)-----------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- --8<----(strace cmds)-----------cut here---------------start------------->8--- [12:07 ~/bs]$ # above from: strace -s 80 -yfo lynx-gx.strace lynx [12:15 ~/bs]$ # and: strace -s 80 -yfo lynx-usr.strace /usr/bin/lynx --8<----(strace cmds)-----------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I've got the whole strace logs still, in case you want me to grep out something more. TIA -- Regards, Bengt Richter