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<cancername_>Hi #guix, gdm fails to start my session after a reconfigure. Here's a log: https://0x0.st/8UFZ.txt . I'm not sure what to make of it.

<cancername_>It would be awesome if someone could help me figure out what's going wrong her.

<cancername_>e.

<cancername_>I did check the web, but all past issues of the sort seem unrelated.

<cancername_>okay, something else is definitely wrong. guix describe shows a guix that is definitely not the one I had prior to rebooting

<cancername_>when listing PATH, ~/.guix-home/... is present. shouldn't ~/.guix-profile be as well?

<cancername_>after setting my PATH such that guix points to ~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix, I got a "proper" guix instead of /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix. why did I have to do that? isn't guix home supposed to set PATH appropriately?

<cancername_>it's worth noting that I use fish, but even running bash -i results in a broken PATH.

<civodul>Hello Guix!

<cbaines>I'm going to turn off qa.guix.gnu.org for a bit as I still can't work out why data.qa.guix.gnu.org isn't working

<civodul>“isn’t working” in what sense?

<cbaines>civodul, I can't figure it out yet, maybe the fibers thread(s) are stuck in some kind of loop, or maybe the GC is just running over and over again

<bdju>Is there anything packaged for easily sending a magic packet to wake up a machine on the LAN? I've read about etherwake and wakeonlan but I don't see them packaged.

<bdju> https://heavydeck.net/blog/wake-on-lan-with-netcat/ I also tried this script but it complained about -b being an invalid option for nc.

<noe>bdju, try package wol

<noe>the wol package*

<bdju>Ah, nice. Thanks.

<jlicht>hey guix

<jakef>lilyp: I'm revisiting that matplotlib issue #70687. do you know if there's bug report upstream?

<peanuts>"python-matplotlib not respecting env var MPLBACKEND=TkAgg" https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70687

<wingo>guix. i upgraded recently and now my compose key is not working. gnome, wayland. what could that be, i wonder?

<wingo>it would seem that pressing the right alt, which is marked as my compose key, seems to toggle the keyboard into some other mode

<wingo>i want to compose = e -> euro symbol

<wingo>hmm, it seems it was a weird interaction between dead keys and compose

<wingo>switching to a layout without dead keys seems to have done the job

<vntsuyo>can I make a root service depend/require a home service?

<noe>vntsuyo, I don’t think so since they run in two different instances of shepherd

<vntsuyo>noe: i see, i'll find a workaround then

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