Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Timothy Sample <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
[…]
>> 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”.

Yes, that’s the file that caused me trouble in the past.  I cannot be
100% certain, though, that other files also needed removing.  (At least
for the GDM user it worked fine to delete the whole directory.)

> The newer GNOME seems much nicer, so this is pretty cool.  The only
> problems I see so far are that I lost my background picture,

This appears to expected when using “guix gc”.  I get this also without
a major upgrade to GNOME.  The background picture then reverts to white.

> there’s no
> icons or text for NetworkManager on the status bar

Oh, hadn’t seen this one before.

> and icons aren’t
> working for applications in my user profile.

Are these icons refered to by absolute file name?  Might they have been
garbage collected?

> Thanks Ricardo for doing the update!

Thanks for testing it!  We still have the other GNOME upgrade that’s
waiting for a rebase, which would also require some testing.

--
Ricardo