bug#39628: closed ([PATCH] gnu: accountsservice: 'Add patch-/bin/cat' phase.)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: [PATCH] gnu: accountsservice: 'Add patch-/bin/cat' phase. Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:10:48 +0000

Hello,

this patch fix the absolute path for /bin/cat and is required to set thumbnail 
image for user in GNOME desktop.

Debug error:

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1) gnome-control-center -v
2) try changing the user's thumbnail.

00:25:56.0336           AccountsService:  WARNING: SetIconFile call failed: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Accounts.Error.Failed: reading file 
'/gnu/store/k159736sj00s0jkirkr2270nlx6sx6h2-gnome-control-center-3.32.2/share/pixmaps/faces/mountain.jpg'
 failed: Failed to execute child process “/bin/cat” (No such file or directory)
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Thanks
Rene

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: [bug#39628] [PATCH] gnu: accountsservice: 'Add patch-/bin/cat' phase. Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:32:47 +0100 User-agent: Notmuch/0.29.3 (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/26.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Rene via Guix-patches via <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> this patch fix the absolute path for /bin/cat and is required to set 
> thumbnail image for user in GNOME desktop.

Good catch, applied in c9aadd074961b149870cbe6128d77b6cacb1d2b6.

By the way, there are some other hard coded file names in that file, for
/usr/bin/passwd and /usr/bin/chage.  We should probably patch those too.

Thanks!

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