Hello all, first the good news: On my x86_64 machine, most of what I need is available from core-updates. I just updated my system and one user. This includes - xfce4 (gnome also builds) - openjdk - ghc-pandoc - calibre (with qt@5, python and python-pyqt) - unison (so also ocaml) - icecat - ungoogled-chromium wine cannot be compiled, which reflects the worse state of i686 compared to x86_64, which is an area of work for the weekend!
The first annoying thing: locales are broken, mutt does not show accented characters any more. Worse: I cannot log in to xfce4 with gdm: gdm starts, I can enter my user name and password, then I end up with a black screen with a graphical mouse pointer that reacts to moving the mouse, but nothing more. Ctrl-alt-f1 followed by ctrl-alt-f7 brings me back to the gdm login screen. I tried to delete a few random directories in .config and .cache, but to no avail; maybe they were not the right ones... I also rolled back just the user profile, which was also not enough. During this time, logging into xfce4 with a second user, whose profile was still on master, was possible. I could "solve" the problem by rolling back both the user and the system. So at least the Guix killer feature still works ;-) Do you have an idea what is happening? Is there anything I can do? Are there bugs in core-updates? Is there anything we should tell users before merging? Thanks for your enlightenment! Andreas
