Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Bo,

Tks for your advice.


> Did you set the following USE flags
>
> USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"
>
> in /etc/make.conf

# cat /etc/make.conf
.....
USE="gtk gtk2 gnome"

I left out "hal avahi" because I have no idea what they are for. 
Neither I need them.

> # emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world
>
> This will recompile anything that has changed USE flags since they
> were
> installed.

Edited /etc/make.conf adding "hal avahi"
Then
USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"

# emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world
It went through without complaint except taking lengthy time to
complete.

After finish, ran;
# startx
....
/root/.xinitrc:line 1:exec:gnome-session:not found

Still unable to start gnome


# emerge --search avahi
net-dns/avahi not installed


# emerge --search hal
...
app-doc/halibut [Masked]
.... not installed
dev-perl (CPAN-Muis-Phalanx [Masked]
.... not installed
games-misc/fortune-mod-simpsons-chalkboard
.... not installed
games-server/halflife-steam [Masked]
.... not installed
sys-apps/hal
.... not installed

Do I need all of them to start gnome?


Continued on
Code Listing 2.7: Adding hald and avahi-dnsconfd to the default
runlevel
( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml )
# ls /etc/init.d/ | grep hald
No printout
Can't proceed further


# emerge gnome-volume-manager
...
....
* Please re-emerge X11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set
ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 failed
Call stack
ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn-setup
gtk+-2.8.19 ebuild, line 57 called pkg-setp die
Cairo needs the X flag set

Please advise how to fix the problem.  TIA

Others noted with tks.


B.R.
SL
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