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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 01:10:24
Message-Id: 27382.1368666609@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working by waltdnes@waltdnes.org
1 waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:06:02AM -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote
4 > > When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no,
5 > > something has gone wrong. The log file is at
6 > > http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help.
7 > >
8 > > I am running gentoo testing with the 3.8 unmasked.
9 >
10 > Direct from the "Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users"
11 > flamewar on gentoo-dev...
12 >
13 > > And now that GNOME 3.8 is out, the game starts over again: logind
14 > > is a hard requirement, logind is part of systemd, starting logind
15 > > (which replaces consolekit) is not that trivial as you may think
16 > > (and is the thing I started to work on anyway).
17 > >
18 > > And if this wasn't enough, it means that if you want GNOME 3.8,
19 > > you need to get logind, which may or not may get included in our
20 > > udev ebuild and if it won't, it means that you will be forced to use
21 > > systemd as device manager if you want GNOME 3.8, which is believe
22 > > it or not, the thing that Ubuntu did.
23 >
24 > Do you have systemd/logind installed?
25
26 Nope, sure don't. None of the ebuilds pulled it in. But what about
27 startx? Would I need logind to do that?
28
29 >
30 > --
31 > Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
32 > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
33
34 --
35 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
36 How do
37 you spend it?
38
39 John Covici
40 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>