libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file

[Marco van Hulten]

Hello Guixians,

Many months ago I have installed Guix on Ubuntu 18.04, and it's mostly
working well.

I am now getting

    /gnu/store/q19l04vd2za80mk1845pz7r8cz29qk43-bash-minimal-4.4.23/bin/bash:
    error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory

in my ~/.xsession-errors when I run atril via dmenu(1) from spectrwm(1)
on Ubuntu 18.04, but

    $ which atril
    /usr/bin/atril
    $ which bash
    /bin/bash
    $ ldd /bin/bash
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc0c3b2000)
        libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 
(0x00007f0518e99000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0518c95000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f05188a4000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f05193dd000)

Here, I am showing all environment variables containing the string
"guix" known to dmenu:

    CPATH=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/include
    GIO_EXTRA_MODULES=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/lib/gio/modules
    GUIX_PROFILE=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile
    LIBRARY_PATH=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/lib
    
PATH=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/bin:/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/sbin:/Home/siv29/mhu027/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
    SSL_CERT_DIR=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/etc/ssl/certs
    TERMINFO_DIRS=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/share/terminfo
    XDG_DATA_DIRS=/Home/siv29/mhu027/.guix-profile/share

What goes wrong?


(Apropos -- but I should make a separate, more complete, report of this
--, has anyone tried to use spectrwm on a native Guix System?  As soon
as I login, having `spectrwm' in my .xinitrc, the screen starts
flickering quickly between black and a login prompt from a vc.  Other
window managers, e.g. i3wm, start normally.  Has someone experienced a
similar behaviour?)

—Marco