Re: Errors running kicad GUI package in container

[Peter Polidoro]

Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> writes:

> > > For what it's worth, kicad seems to work for me in a 
> > > container.
> > > I'm using Guix System with GNOME (guix 4716cea):
> > > 
>
> > > __________
> > > guix shell kicad -E "^DISPLAY$" -E "^XAUTHORITY$"
> > > --expose="$XAUTHORITY"
> > > --expose=/tmp/.X11-unix/ --expose=$HOME/.Xauthority
> > > --expose=/etc/machine-id
> > > --expose=$HOME/Descargas --expose=/tmp/dbus-fnAz1hb4to

When I submitted a patch to upgrade kicad to 6.0.9 I went ahead 
and added gdk-pixbuf as an input.

Now it seems to work well, except in at least one strange case.

I noticed that kicad crashes when I run it in a pure shell with 
both kicad and python-ipython:

guix shell --pure kicad python-ipython -- kicad # crashes when you 
click on GUI open project icon
guix shell kicad python-ipython -- kicad # does not crash
guix shell --pure kicad -- kicad # does not crash

I do not know if this is a bug in kicad or in the guix package or 
something else.

I assume this means that one or more environment variables need to 
be set in the pure shell, but I do not know which.

guix shell --pure --check kicad python-ipython -- kicad
guix shell: checking the environment variables visible from shell 
'/bin/bash'...
guix shell: All is good!  The shell gets correct environment 
variables.

guix describe --format=channels
(list (channel
       (name 'guix)
       (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)
       (branch "master")
       (commit
         "48329575c87bbee7166eedf10b1699599e67c49d")
       (introduction
         (make-channel-introduction
           "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
           (openpgp-fingerprint
             "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 
             54FA")))))