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On Mon, Aug 05 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:59 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Aug 05 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:26 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>>> (I brought an old system upto the state of my real one and am trying to |
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>>>> follow the wiki for converting to systemd). |
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>>>> I am upto the part where the wiki says |
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>>>> emerge --ask systemd |
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>>>> I believe the wiki left out unmerging or something since the emerge |
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>>>> gives conflicts (as expected). |
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>>>> What must I unmerge? |
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>>>> The emerge --ask systemd, specifically mentions a conflict with |
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>>>> consolekit, which it states is pulled in by polkit and pambase. |
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>>>> I tried adding these last three to package.mask hoping that the emerge |
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>>>> would propose uninstalling them while installing systemd, but that |
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>>>> didn't happen. |
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>>>> What is/are the step(s) I am missing. |
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>>> |
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>>> If you already compiled everything with USE=-consolekit, just |
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>>> uninstall consolekit. Otherwise, first set -consolekit in your USE |
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>>> flags, emerge --newuse world, and then uninstall it. |
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>> That is it. I never set USE=-consolekit. If it is in the wiki, I missed |
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>> it. Thanks. |
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>>> logind (included with systemd) provides all the functionality that |
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>>> consolekit provided, and more. They cannot be installed at the same |
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>>> time (hence the block). |
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>>> Be aware, if you had some packages with USE=consolekit (pambase and |
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>>> polkit in particular), you cannot use GDM nor GNOME after you |
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>>> uninstall it and until you install systemd and reboot with it. |
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>> I don't understand this last point. You said that I should |
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>> 1. set USE="-consolekit ..." |
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>> 2. emerge --newuse world |
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>> 3. unmerge consolekit |
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>> Since I do steps 1 and 2 before 3, by the time I get to uninstalling |
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>> consolekit, I can be sure that neither pambase and polkit (nor anything |
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>> else) will not be installed with USE=consolekit. So I don't see how |
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>> your last sentence can apply. |
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> Mmmh. You are missing "4. reboot with systemd". I'm assuming you |
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> haven't booted with systemd yet (you seemed hesitant to do it); logind |
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> will not work under anything different than systemd. The problem is |
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> not uninstalling or not CK (that doesn't matter after "USE=-consolekit |
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> emerge --newuse world", as you correctly pointed); the problem is that |
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> you need to be running systemd for logind to work. |
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> If logind doesn't work, gdm (and the whole GNOME stack) will acty |
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> strangely, if at all. |
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>>> Strange things will happen if you do. |
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>>> Login via ssh and VT will work as usual. |
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>> ssh and VT will be sufficient. |
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> Regards. |
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I see. I misunderstood you and though the problems were to arise before |
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step 4. |
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I get it now. I don't know if I can work on this right away as we are |
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traveling but will report back when I do try it. |
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Thanks, |
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allan |
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