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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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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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allan |
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oldlap ~ # cd /var/lib/gdm |
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oldlap gdm # ls -lRA |
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total 16 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .config |
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drwxr-x--T 2 root gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .gconf.mandatory |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365 Oct 12 17:26 .gconf.path |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .local |
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./.config: |
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total 4 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 dconf |
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./.config/dconf: |
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total 0 |
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./.gconf.mandatory: |
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total 20 |
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-rw-r----T 1 root gdm 16968 Oct 12 17:26 %gconf-tree.xml |
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./.local: |
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total 4 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 share |
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./.local/share: |
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total 4 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 applications |
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./.local/share/applications: |
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total 0 |
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oldlap gdm # |