Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Monday, 24 June 2024 14:25:47 BST Dale wrote:
> Michael wrote:

> > You should at least try to launch a X11 session using a console and see
> > what is printed out on the CLI after you exit (or if it crashes).
> > 
> > ~ $ exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11
> 
> I tried every combination I could think of.  It seems the more I tried,
> the worse the failure got. 
> 
> Anyway, I've started a fresh install.  I fixed my partition boo boo.  I
> didn't need much of anything except to just get a fresh start so I used
> the zap feature of gdisk.  After that, I used cgdisk to set up
> everything else, making sure the efi partition was ef00 and had the old
> fat type partition on it.  Or was it vfat?  Whatever the docs said.  I
> copy and paste some of it except for the partition info. 

For an ESP on a disk partition, it would be FAT32 (while FAT12 or FAT16 can be 
used for removable media).  VFAT is an extension to FAT allowing long 
filenames.  In any case it's just a symlink:

~ $ ls -la /usr/bin/mkfs.vfat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 24 08:52 /usr/bin/mkfs.vfat -> mkfs.fat


> I did notice one thing, I copied some USE flags over from my current
> rig.  I found some that might not should have been copied over before. 
> I wonder if that could have caused a problem or two.  I realized I chose
> the merged /usr stage3 but had split-usr USE flag in make.conf.  That
> was one I remembered.  There was a couple others as well. 

Some of the USE flags will be dictated by the make.profile you used.  If you 
selected the merged /usr profile 23.0 and the corresponding non-legacy stage 3 
archive for desktop plasma 23.0, you shouldn't have USE="split-usr".

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