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walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 05/23/2014 12:50 PM, covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > Hi. Well, I thought I was making progress with systemd, but my gnome |
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> > session kept saying "oh no something has gone wrong" and would not |
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> > work. Also, after such a thing has happened, all my consoles would keep |
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> > using the last line to put every line and so I had to keep rebooting. |
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> > And when I would reboot systemd would not behave the same way, sometimes |
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> > it would hang at certain places, and sometimes it would go all the way |
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> > through, but things would not start properly -- maybe a concurrency |
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> > problem, but its hard to say what was going on. What a mess, but I |
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> > guess I have a setup which systemd does not like, too much parallellism |
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> > and no way to get things to start in the order I want them -- or at |
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> > least none I could figure out! |
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> > I am open to suggestions here, and I have a log segment I can put |
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> > somewhere to illustrage the "oh no" problem, but I am getting tired of |
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> > the mess and if I can find something which works with orca I will do |
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> > that instead. |
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> I've spent many frustrating days fighting the "oh no" syndrome and I |
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> found two very annoying workarounds before I gave up on gnome3. |
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> First, the file ~/.gnomerc-errors may give you some good hints. Many |
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> of my "oh no" moments were caused by broken xorg 3D rendering support, |
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> i.e. broken video drivers, etc, etc. |
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> Second, many other "oh no" moments were caused by $SOME_MYSTERIOUS |
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> item in ~/.config or ~/.local suddenly rendered erroneous by a gnome3 |
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> update. |
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> I found some of those problem items by renaming those two directories |
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> and starting with a completely blank gnome3 slate. |
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> If gnome-shell starts okay with the new tabla rasa then you can copy |
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> the old .local and .config subdirectories one by one into the new gnome |
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> environment until you can reproduce the original breakage. Repeat as |
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> needed. |
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Thanks for the hint --I have no ~/.gnomerc-errors -- I have a |
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.Xsession-errors, but it never told me anything useful. |
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I may try your other suggestion next time I have the courage to boot |
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into systemd. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |