bug#27264: gnome-shell-3.24.2 consistently dies during initialization

[Kei Kebreau]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> (.gnome-shell-real:11698): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error:
>>>> Requiring Rsvg, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Rsvg'
>>>> (any version) not found
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the librsvg JS bindings are missing.  Would it help to add
>>>> librsvg as an input to ‘gnome-shell’?
>>>>
>>>> Ludo’.
>>>
>>> Adding librsvg to gnome-shell solves this problem, however, a similar
>>> error for Geoclue2 occurs.  I added 'geoclue' to the inputs, but that
>>> doesn't solve the problem.

I've found that adding gobject-introspection as a native-input to
geoclue first allows geoclue to generate the required typelib
file. FWIW, I'm writing this in an instance of gnome-shell.

>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Great, could you this fix if you haven’t already?
>
>> I have a question: Does GNOME 3 work for *anyone* in Guix now?  If so,
>> that would be useful information.  If not, I wonder why this got merged
>> into master.
>
> I think many of us use GTK+/GNOME applications, but fewer use GNOME, so
> I suppose we just didn’t test a full GNOME setup.
>
> Next time we should probably do that or, even better, have an automated
> test that logs in, takes a screenshot, and does some OCR to check
> whether we got something that looks like a GNOME screen.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Ludo’.

I definitely agree. To get gnome-shell running on machine required the
at least the attached patch (the librsvg upgrade is not necessary to my
knowledge). I get more warnings about gnome-shell trying and failing to
run the "ibus-daemon" command, a suggestion for geoclue to use
glib-networking for TLS/SSL support.

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