(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
Hello,
The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing
an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM.
The error looks like:
WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface
"org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService"
For information, it already occured[0] and was resolved[1][2] in NixOS.
After testing, simply wrapping the accountsservice package with relevant
XDG_DATA_DIRS directories as done in the attached patch resolves the
issue. However, there might be a proper solution I'm not aware of.
Also the patch used in [2] doesn't seem to be needed in Guix.
Have a nice day,
L p R n d n
From b9c379d068266c9fdc506f60ff05de3b39346999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: L p R n d n <guix@lprndn.info>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 13:28:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: accountsservice: Wrap program.
* gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm (accountsservice): Add a wrap-program phase
setting XDG_DATA_DIRS to provide dbus interfaces.
---
gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm | 32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm b/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
index b59d09d15f..01969e03a1 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm
@@ -1020,19 +1020,25 @@ message bus.")
(("/bin/cat") (which "cat")))
#t))
(add-before
- 'configure 'pre-configure
- (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
- ;; Don't try to create /var/lib/AccountsService.
- (substitute* "src/Makefile.in"
- (("\\$\\(MKDIR_P\\).*/lib/AccountsService.*") "true"))
- (let ((shadow (assoc-ref inputs "shadow")))
- (substitute* '("src/user.c" "src/daemon.c")
- (("/usr/sbin/usermod") (string-append shadow "/sbin/usermod"))
- (("/usr/sbin/useradd") (string-append shadow "/sbin/useradd"))
- (("/usr/sbin/userdel") (string-append shadow "/sbin/userdel"))
- (("/usr/bin/passwd") (string-append shadow "/bin/passwd"))
- (("/usr/bin/chage") (string-append shadow "/bin/chage"))))
- #t)))))
+ 'configure 'pre-configure
+ (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ ;; Don't try to create /var/lib/AccountsService.
+ (substitute* "src/Makefile.in"
+ (("\\$\\(MKDIR_P\\).*/lib/AccountsService.*") "true"))
+ (let ((shadow (assoc-ref inputs "shadow")))
+ (substitute* '("src/user.c" "src/daemon.c")
+ (("/usr/sbin/usermod") (string-append shadow "/sbin/usermod"))
+ (("/usr/sbin/useradd") (string-append shadow "/sbin/useradd"))
+ (("/usr/sbin/userdel") (string-append shadow "/sbin/userdel"))
+ (("/usr/bin/passwd") (string-append shadow "/bin/passwd"))
+ (("/usr/bin/chage") (string-append shadow "/bin/chage"))))
+ #t))
+ (add-after 'install 'wrap-program
+ (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+ (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")))
+ (wrap-program (string-append out "/libexec/accounts-daemon")
+ `("XDG_DATA_DIRS" ":" prefix ("/run/current-system/profile/share")))
+ #t))))))
(native-inputs
`(("glib:bin" ,glib "bin") ; for gdbus-codegen, etc.
("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)
--
2.26.1