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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:09:28
Message-Id: CADPrc83Fw5Yjxwm=hNq0spV_PZP8S9qoL8gtJbq+2ET0kHk8gA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok) by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>> I notice that I have the default "accessibility" use flag on.
7 >>> I am tempted to turn it off to reduce the number of packages
8 >>> involved.  Any downside?
9 >>
10 >> Not that I know of. Can you please backup /var/lib/gdm, and clean the
11 >> directory completely? Don't erase the directory, just its contents
12 >> (including *ALL* the hidden files); gdm needs this directory to start,
13 >> and it's gid gdm and uid gdm.
14 >
15 > I cleaned it.  Then built gdm with the gnome-shell flag.  This slightly
16 > repopulated the directory (see ls -lAR below).
17 >
18 >> After you have cleaned it, recompile gdm with the gnome-shell and try
19 >> again. I still don't see why gnome-shell is not starting, but gdm may
20 >> have problems with its user config (which is stored in /var/lib/gdm),
21 >> and *maybe* gnome-shell cannot start correctly if gdm is not built
22 >> with the gnome-shell use flag.
23 >>
24 >> Regards.
25 >
26 > gdm again failed (oh no, something has gone wrong) upon restart.
27 > To be certain, I did a reboot, gdm failed again, and then *really*
28 > cleaned the directory (including the files put there by the emerge)
29 > It again failed.
30
31 The files would reappear everytime you run gdm; they are its
32 configuration files.
33
34 > I tried an emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world,
35 > this complained because qt-gui didn't have the accessibility flag.
36 >
37 > So I put back accessibility and redid the update world.
38 > As expected only gdm was rebuilt.
39 > I restarted gdm (via xdm as usual) and the same failure occurred.
40 >
41 > I can't get gdm to run with the gnome-shell use flag.
42 >
43 > What use flags do you have for gdm?  Here is mine
44 >     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)
45 >
46 > thanks for all your efforts,
47
48 It's really weird; can I see /var/log/messages (or whatever logger
49 file you have)? With Enable=true in the [debug] key on
50 /etc/gdm/custom.conf, we should be able to see why gdm is dying.
51
52 My flags are:
53
54 Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:20:40 PM 10/11/2011)(consolekit
55 elibc_glibc gnome-keyring gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier
56 -accessibility -debug -fprint -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama)
57
58 Mmmh. I didn't even know you could remove gnome-keyring from gdm. If
59 you are using GNOME, I don't see no reason to disable it. Maybe try
60 it?
61
62 Anyhow, the logs from gdm failing should tell us something. I don't
63 think is the video, like Michael suggested; supposedly gnome-shell
64 would detect that.
65
66 Regards.
67 --
68 Canek Peláez Valdés
69 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
70 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok) Michael Schreckenbauer <grimlog@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok) Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>