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

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2014 05:38:08 -0400
> covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > OK, here is a link to the messages without me doing anything in gdm at
> > all, just starting it.
> > 
> > https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=85cffe78261eacc915379ff5d5449d18
> 
> There are some warnings and errors in this one, but I'm not quite sure
> which one could be the problem; you can get them with a grep:
> 
>     grep -i '\(warning\|error\)' gnome-3.12.1-error2.txt | grep -v Xorg
> 
> 1. The GetAll() and ServiceUnknown erros are often not problematic.
> 
> 2. "Unable to register client with session manager" I get too; so, not a
> problem.
> 
> 3. There is "Gvc-WARNING **: Failed to connect context: OK" but that is
> GNOME volume control if I understood correctly; so, also not a problem.
> 
> 4. The Polkit Error "No permission to trigger offline updates" might be
> more concerning; though, it should just affect the update part.
> 
> 5. "JS ERROR: could not get remote objects for service
> org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Smartcard" I think is due to a missing USE
> flag option for the gnome-settings-daemon package; I think that's
> supposed to work, so, I also don't see this as a problem.
> 
> 6. "Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load" is
> also something non-fatal; so, also not a problem.
> 
> TL;DR: One of these could be it, or not at all; I think the problem
> you're having right now doesn't manifest itself as a warning or error,
> but instead as an input / graphical problem.
> 
> Can you try a different version of GNOME? A newer might have fixed it.
> 
> If you need instructions on how to switch between specific version,
> feel free to let me know. I'll try to figure out the sequence to switch
> between users later today, when I can reboot my system.

You have been a big help -- I think I do have something running here, if
I could get orca to talk I would probably be good to go, but the
recomended keystroke super-alt-s does not work.    hmmm, I was just
poking and indeed orca is starting from gdm, but it seems not to have
the correct options.  The only thing I see is
/usr/share/gdm/greeter/autostart/orca-autostart.desktop but that one
does have the correct options, but orca  definitely has no speech, so I
think my problem will be solved if I can get orca to start talking
correctly.  Now once I login orca does start talking, so its only with
the gdm that it does not work, so we are very nearly there.


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