Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> skribis:
>>
>>> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories
>>>>> around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account
>>>>> (logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I even tried upgrading the user’s profile just in case is contained
>>>>> incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn’t help.
>>>>>
>>>>> What extra bit of state am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Do you have ~/.local? In my earlier tests this contained binary
>>>> notification data that when loaded would lead to a crash.
>>>
>>> I’m testing GNOME on ‘staging’ now, and had the same problem (GDM worked
>>> okay, but I could not login). I fixed it by deleting
>>> “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/notifications”. I left everything else in
>>> my home directory as it was.
>>
>> That’s the one! I moved ~/.local/share/gnome-shell out of the way and
>> after that I could log in. \o/
>
> So I’d really like to merge that branch, but this GNOME upgrade issue is
> holding us back.
>
> Does anyone have ideas on how to address it?
With this system definition I cannot log into GNOME:
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(use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss))
(use-service-modules desktop xorg)
(use-package-modules certs gnome)
(operating-system
(host-name "antelope")
(timezone "Europe/Paris")
(locale "en_US.utf8")
(keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "altgr-intl"))
(bootloader (bootloader-configuration
(bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
(target "/boot/efi")
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(file-systems (cons (file-system
(device (file-system-label "my-root"))
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4"))
%base-file-systems))
(users (cons (user-account
(name "bob")
(comment "Alice's brother")
(group "users")
(supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev"
"audio" "video")))
%base-user-accounts))
(packages (append (list nss-certs gvfs)
%base-packages))
(services (append (list (service gnome-desktop-service-type)
(set-xorg-configuration
(xorg-configuration
(keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
(service (service-type
(name 'break-gnome)
(extensions
(list (service-extension
activation-service-type
(lambda _
#~(mkdir-p
"/home/bob/.local/share/gnome-shell")))))
(default-value #t))))
%desktop-services))
(name-service-switch %mdns-host-lookup-nss))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Note the “break-gnome” service. When the service does not exist,
everything is fine. It seems to me that the contents of the directory
really do not matter after all.
Now I wonder how this affects the gnome-shell startup, because once the
upgrade is complete things do work fine. I wonder if there may be a
dconf setting that is flipped after initialization.
--
Ricardo
