Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sat, 24 May 2014 02:19:19 -0400
covici@××××××××××.com wrote:

> Sorry, that one was wrong as well, here is the correct one which I
> have tested myself!
> https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=7aa380dc7ff13da479331a425ce8a665

(TL;DR: Enable the COMPOSITE extension in your Xorg configuration.)

Which version of GNOME is this? I run GNOME 3.12; if you still run
a much older version of GNOME, you might want to consider an upgrade.

Did a diff against mine.

First bit where it goes wrong:

    gdm-session-worker[14085]: <7>AccountsService: Error calling
    GetAll() when retrieving properties
    for /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User105: Operation was cancelled
    gdm-session-worker[14085]: <7>AccountsService: Error calling
    GetAll() when retrieving properties
    for /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User105: Operation was cancelled

Second bit where it goes wrong:

    /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No
    composite extension.
    /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-check-accelerated:
    Helper exited with code 256
    /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No
    composite extension.
    /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-check-accelerated:
    Helper exited with code 256
    /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: ** (process:14093): WARNING **:
    software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code
    1

The first one is accountsservice; here you can check if you have the
last version (or try a different version), as well as see if the
systemd USE flag on it is set. Though, don't worry too much; given that
it goes further past this point, this might be a false positive. But it
might be relevant might you experience another problem later on...

The second one is way more interesting, it is a process that exits with
code 1 and definitely is a failure; the lack of presence of a composite
extension means that there is something wrong with your Xorg
configuration or detection, maybe you have explicitly disabling it or
have set it up in a way that it breaks.

Alternatively consider to remove the existing Xorg configuration files,
try again; if it still breaks, you can generate one with nvidia-xconfig.

In my case I get ...

    gdm-Xorg-:0[2680]: Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE

... which doesn't appear in your log.

A similar forum topic seems to suggest it happens in such case:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-977526-start-0.html

Thus can you try enabling that extension? 

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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