Hello all, Really sorry about this ugly regression :-/.
I'm surprised that a 22000 characters in an environment variable would be an issue though, given that that's probably around 22 KiB of memory and some people tested huge variables (>18 MiB) without facing any hard limit other than RAM [0]. Which leads me to suspect that the problem might be Gnome specific? I haven't experienced it, but then my EMACSLOADPATH variable is only about 7000 characters and I'm not using Gnome (I use ratpoison as a WM). If someone could confirm that they can login using another desktop (XFCE, perhaps?) that'd tell us we need to look more carefully at what gnome-session does and why it crashes on larger than average environment variables. I believe the "enhancement" #1 (to deprecate guix.d subdirectories) in XFCE?) as explained in bug #38273 [1] could lead to a much leaner EMACSLOADPATH, by reducing the number of entries necessary to refer to all the Elisp packages. [0] https://aplawrence.com/Unixart/variable_limits.html [1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38273#34 Maxim
