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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> When you do layman --sync-all, sometimes the ebuilds are updated, but |
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>> with the same version. Try to recompile every ebuild in the overlay |
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>> that you have installed in your system. At least, try to recompile |
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>> gdm, gnome-shell, and all of its direct dependencies, the packages in |
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>> COMMON_DEPEND, RDEPEND and DEPEND) in the gnome-shell-3.2.0-r1 ebuild. |
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>> Minus the use enabled where you don't set the use flag, of course. |
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> |
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> Recompiles done. No change |
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> 1. If gdm maintains its gnome-shell use flag, it crashes |
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> 2. If gdm has -gnome-shell in package.use, it runs |
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> but gnome-shell (or something else invoked on login with |
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> an "empty user") crashes |
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> |
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>> Also: modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and in the [debug] key set |
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>> "Enable=true". And modify /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop and |
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>> replace Exec=gnome-session with Exec=gnome-session --debug. Then a lot |
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>> more info will be available in ~/.xsession-errors, and we will know |
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>> more. |
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> |
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> Done. Output below (naturally this is with the gnome-shell use flag |
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> disabled. |
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> |
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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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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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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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