Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 May 2014 02:19:19 -0400
> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > Sorry, that one was wrong as well, here is the correct one which I
> > have tested myself!
> > https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=7aa380dc7ff13da479331a425ce8a665
>
> (TL;DR: Enable the COMPOSITE extension in your Xorg configuration.)
>
> Which version of GNOME is this? I run GNOME 3.12; if you still run
> a much older version of GNOME, you might want to consider an upgrade.
>
> Did a diff against mine.
>
> First bit where it goes wrong:
>
>     gdm-session-worker[14085]: <7>AccountsService: Error calling
>     GetAll() when retrieving properties
>     for /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User105: Operation was cancelled
>     gdm-session-worker[14085]: <7>AccountsService: Error calling
>     GetAll() when retrieving properties
>     for /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User105: Operation was cancelled
>
> Second bit where it goes wrong:
>
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No
>     composite extension.
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-check-accelerated:
>     Helper exited with code 256
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No
>     composite extension.
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: gnome-session-check-accelerated:
>     Helper exited with code 256
>     /usr/bin/dbus-launch[14093]: ** (process:14093): WARNING **:
>     software acceleration check failed: Child process exited with code
>     1
>
> The first one is accountsservice; here you can check if you have the
> last version (or try a different version), as well as see if the
> systemd USE flag on it is set. Though, don't worry too much; given that
> it goes further past this point, this might be a false positive. But it
> might be relevant might you experience another problem later on...
>
> The second one is way more interesting, it is a process that exits with
> code 1 and definitely is a failure; the lack of presence of a composite
> extension means that there is something wrong with your Xorg
> configuration or detection, maybe you have explicitly disabling it or
> have set it up in a way that it breaks.
>
> Alternatively consider to remove the existing Xorg configuration files,
> try again; if it still breaks, you can generate one with nvidia-xconfig.
>
> In my case I get ...
>
>     gdm-Xorg-:0[2680]: Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
>
> ... which doesn't appear in your log.
>
> A similar forum topic seems to suggest it happens in such case:
>
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-977526-start-0.html
>
> Thus can you try enabling that extension?

OK, well that fixed a lot, if I do a startx, I can get a gnome session
(I even tried it under openrc) and it did come up.  I wonder if I could
get along that way?  So, I rebooted under systemd, but gdm still is not
working, but I am not sure what the message is, since I am using a
screen reader and  the gnome session is not saying anything, but I will
have more information later on today.  So we are in much better shape
than before.
Thanks much.


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