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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> I notice that I have the default "accessibility" use flag on. |
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>>> I am tempted to turn it off to reduce the number of packages |
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>>> involved. Any downside? |
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>> Not that I know of. Can you please backup /var/lib/gdm, and clean the |
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>> directory completely? Don't erase the directory, just its contents |
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>> (including *ALL* the hidden files); gdm needs this directory to start, |
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>> and it's gid gdm and uid gdm. |
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> I cleaned it. Then built gdm with the gnome-shell flag. This slightly |
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> repopulated the directory (see ls -lAR below). |
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>> After you have cleaned it, recompile gdm with the gnome-shell and try |
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>> again. I still don't see why gnome-shell is not starting, but gdm may |
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>> have problems with its user config (which is stored in /var/lib/gdm), |
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>> and *maybe* gnome-shell cannot start correctly if gdm is not built |
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>> with the gnome-shell use flag. |
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>> Regards. |
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> gdm again failed (oh no, something has gone wrong) upon restart. |
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> To be certain, I did a reboot, gdm failed again, and then *really* |
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> cleaned the directory (including the files put there by the emerge) |
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> It again failed. |
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The files would reappear everytime you run gdm; they are its |
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configuration files. |
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> I tried an emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world, |
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> this complained because qt-gui didn't have the accessibility flag. |
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> So I put back accessibility and redid the update world. |
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> As expected only gdm was rebuilt. |
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> I restarted gdm (via xdm as usual) and the same failure occurred. |
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> I can't get gdm to run with the gnome-shell use flag. |
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> What use flags do you have for gdm? Here is mine |
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> Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:47:00 PM 10/12/2011)(accessibility consolekit elibc_glibc gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -debug -fprint -gnome-keyring -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) |
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> thanks for all your efforts, |
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It's really weird; can I see /var/log/messages (or whatever logger |
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file you have)? With Enable=true in the [debug] key on |
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/etc/gdm/custom.conf, we should be able to see why gdm is dying. |
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My flags are: |
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Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:20:40 PM 10/11/2011)(consolekit |
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elibc_glibc gnome-keyring gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier |
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-accessibility -debug -fprint -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) |
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Mmmh. I didn't even know you could remove gnome-keyring from gdm. If |
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you are using GNOME, I don't see no reason to disable it. Maybe try |
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it? |
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Anyhow, the logs from gdm failing should tell us something. I don't |
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think is the video, like Michael suggested; supposedly gnome-shell |
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would detect that. |
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Regards. |
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-- |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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