Can't logout and login again

Hi, I've just installed the Guix System on my laptop (TP X230) yesterday,

but I consistently find myself running into the problem that I can't use

a X session properly.

I've reinstalled the system multiple times with different DE's (LXQt,

Mate, XFCE) and DM's (slim, GDM), but the issue persists: The first time

I try to login, it works, everything is loaded the way I'd expect it,

but as soon as I install anyting (using "guix install ...") and *then*

log out, and try to log in again, the screen just blinks and throws me

back into the login screen of my display manager.

I've tried changing /etc/config.scm and keeping it the same, reveting

package instalations, but nothing seems to change anything.

When running "startx" in a TTY, I get this message, no matter what WM I

try to use:

xauth: file /home/phi/.serverauth.1225 does not exist

xinit: unable to run server "/gnu/store/i3hrd6d3wrxy5fc9i2kcv115sjm8xm8f-xinit-1.4.1/bin/X": No such file or directory

Use the -- option, or make sure that /gnu/store/i3hrd6d3wrxy5fc9i2kcv115sjm8xm8f-xinit-1.4.1/bin is in your path and

that "/gnu/store/i3hrd6d3wrxy5fc9i2kcv115sjm8xm8f-xinit-1.4.1/bin/X" is a program or a link to the right type of server

for your display. Possible server names include:

Xorg Common X server for most displays

Xvfb Virtual frame buffer

Xfake kdrive-based virtual frame buffer

Xnest X server nested in a window on another X server

Xephyr kdrive-based nested X server

Xvnc X server accessed over VNC's RFB protocol

Xdmx Distributed Multi-head X server

Note that "X" isn't placed in /gnu/store/...-xinit-1.4.1/bin/X, but as

far as I see /gnu/store/...-xorg-server-1.20.4/bin/X.

Is this a known bug? Are there any workarounds? In case there are any

questions or I didn't go into enough detail, please tell me, and I'll

gladly offer more information. I'll attach the output of "guix package

-I" and "-l" to this mail, in case than may help.

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With kind regards,

Philip K.

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Hello Philip,

philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.) writes:

[...]

Can you please confirm what Installer version you used?

I did a few test installation on a test machine but was not able to

reproduce this bug, sorry.

Are you able to login after a complete reboot?

User installed packages should not compromise anything related to the

graphical session, so this should not be the problem here

Can you provide us your /etc/config.scm please?

[...]

HTH! Gio'.

--

Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures

Hi Philip,

philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.) skribis:

Like Giuseppe wrote, could you share your config.scm file?

What happens if you remove ‘xmonad’ from your profile?

Do you have a ~/.xsession file? If so, could you share it?

I don’t see any reason off-hand while this would happen (Guix System

installations used SLiM in the past, and have been using GDM by default

for several months now.)

Indeed, ‘startx’ is currently not supported.

Thanks for your bug report,

Ludo’.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

^~~~~~~~

I meant Giovanni, apologies!

Ludo’.

Sorry for the late response, I thought I had already responded a few

days back, but it seems I must have replied to the wrong message...

I'm sad to say that I have had to give up on using Guix (for now), since

I didn't have enough time to properly configure the system to my needs

during university (thanks for the responses anyways!).

Nevertheless, I managed to solve the issue by reading through the

manual, and it was unrelated to my initial suspicion, and as you mention

had to do with the xsession file containing a command (I believe it was

"xset") that I hadn't installed in my user profile. After removing said

lines, any all DE's worked as expected.

Ultimately, I'd still see this as a kind of bug, since the in the case

of GDM no error message appeared at all, and SLiM generated two written

*over* one another, with little information on what exactly was wrong.

Or is it generally not advised to use an .xsession file?

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

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With kind regards,

Philip K.

Hi Philip,

philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.) skribis:

Good to know, I’m closing the bug now.

Using a .xsession file is fine, of course, but it generally means that

you’re “on your own.” In particular, there’s not much the login manager

can do; it cannot tell whether the .xsession script is behaving “as

intended.”

Thanks,

Ludo’.

tags 35900 notabug

close 35900

quit