[gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi folks,

I followed "The GNOME Configuration HOWTO"
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml

installing Gnome.  Steps writen there went though w/o problem until
upto;
Code Listing 2.7: Adding hald and avahi-dnsconfd to the default
runlevel

On running;
# /etc/init.d/hald start

I failed to find "hald" but "hald.sh" instead.  I considered they were
the same "sh-script" and hit [ENTER].  Following was displayed on the
screen;
Shunting down the Logical Volume Manager
Shunting down Logical Volume : /dev/vg/usr
Shunting down Logical Volume : /dev/vg/home
Shunting down Logical Volume : /dev/vg/opt
Shunting down Logical Volume : /dev/vg/var
Shunting down Logical Volume : /dev/vg/tmp
Shunting down Volume Group : vg ...
Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager
Remounting remaining file systems readonly
* End *

Then my nightmare came again.  Some commands can't be found.

Continued
# rc-update add hald default
... file not found
# rc-update add hald.sh default
... file not found

Then I ran
# vgchange -a y
.... something locked (sorry I can't recall exactly)

I can't proceed further and ran;
# shutdown -r now
text scrolling started ending at - blinking.

Pressed "reset" to restart Gentoo.  On booting there was no
error/complaint displayed.  Gentoo started with login prompted up
properly.

Login
# startx
X window started.


Please advise;
1)
Do I need to reinstall Gnome?
(remark: installed "gnome-light")

If YES how to remove Gnome, the unfinished package?


2)
How to overcome the problem mentioned?  I must run the command line in
question on 2nd installation of Gnome.


Furthermore I forgot mentioning on running;
# rc-update del famd default
(Code Listing 2.6: Switching to gamin)
fam can't be found.


TIA


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Saturday 09 September 2006 10:05, Stephen Liu wrote:
> I followed "The GNOME Configuration HOWTO"
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml
[SNIP]
> Please advise;
> 1)
> Do I need to reinstall Gnome?
> (remark: installed "gnome-light")
>
> If YES how to remove Gnome, the unfinished package?

Did you set the following USE flags

USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"

in /etc/make.conf

If in doubt post the output of

# emerge --info | grep ^USE

If they are set try running

# emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world

This will recompile anything that has changed USE flags since they were 
installed.

[SNIP]

> Furthermore I forgot mentioning on running;
> # rc-update del famd default
> (Code Listing 2.6: Switching to gamin)
> fam can't be found.

If you didn't have app-admin/fam installed before following this guide then 
this is to be expected. The purpose of these two steps is to get rid of it if 
you had it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Ryan,

> I think that what you found was not hald.sh, but rather halt.sh - 
> something quite different.

Oh yes, my mistake.  But I can't find "hald" there.

# ls -al /etc/init.d/ | grep hald
No printout

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Bo,

Tks for your advice.


> Did you set the following USE flags
> 
> USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"
> 
> in /etc/make.conf

# cat /etc/make.conf
.....
USE="gtk gtk2 gnome"

I left out "hal avahi" because I have no idea what they are for. 
Neither I need them.

> # emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world
> 
> This will recompile anything that has changed USE flags since they
> were 
> installed.

Edited /etc/make.conf adding "hal avahi"
Then
USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"

# emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world
It went through without complaint except taking lengthy time to
complete.

After finish, ran;
# startx
....
/root/.xinitrc:line 1:exec:gnome-session:not found

Still unable to start gnome


# emerge --search avahi
net-dns/avahi not installed


# emerge --search hal
...
app-doc/halibut [Masked]
.... not installed
dev-perl (CPAN-Muis-Phalanx [Masked]
.... not installed
games-misc/fortune-mod-simpsons-chalkboard
.... not installed
games-server/halflife-steam [Masked]
.... not installed
sys-apps/hal
.... not installed

Do I need all of them to start gnome?


Continued on
Code Listing 2.7: Adding hald and avahi-dnsconfd to the default
runlevel
( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnome-config.xml )
# ls /etc/init.d/ | grep hald
No printout
Can't proceed further


# emerge gnome-volume-manager
...
....
* Please re-emerge X11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set
ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 failed
Call stack
ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn-setup
gtk+-2.8.19 ebuild, line 57 called pkg-setp die
Cairo needs the X flag set

Please advise how to fix the problem.  TIA

Others noted with tks.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Sunday 10 September 2006 07:53, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Did you set the following USE flags
> >
> > USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"
[SNIP]
> I left out "hal avahi" because I have no idea what they are for.
> Neither I need them.

Well, you at least shouldn't be surprised that the guide fails if you don't 
follow it... Being a kde user I, however, cannot tell you why you need it 
since I don't... ;)

[SNIP]
> Edited /etc/make.conf adding "hal avahi"
> Then
> USE="gtk gtk2 gnome hal avahi"
>
> # emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world
> It went through without complaint except taking lengthy time to
> complete.
>
> After finish, ran;
> # startx
> ....
> /root/.xinitrc:line 1:exec:gnome-session:not found
>
> Still unable to start gnome

Perhaps a typo in /root/.xinitrc? Should be a space rather than a colon 
between exec and gnome-session. Otherwise please show the output of:

# equery check gnome-base/gnome-session

> # emerge --search avahi
> net-dns/avahi not installed
>
> # emerge --search hal
[SNIP]
> sys-apps/hal
> .... not installed

This pretty much contradicts your previous statements. If you have emerged 
gnome-light, added the hal and avahi use flags and after that run

# emerge --newuse --update --deep --verbose --ask world

then that should pull in both of sys-apps/hal and net-dns/avahi?? Perhaps show 
the output of:

# emerge -pv gnome-base/gnome-vfs

> Do I need all of them to start gnome?

As previously mentioned I don't really know since I don't really like or care 
about gnome... ;)

[SNIP]

> # emerge gnome-volume-manager
> ....
> * Please re-emerge X11-libs/cairo with the X USE flag set
> ERROR: x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19 failed
> Call stack
> ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn-setup
> gtk+-2.8.19 ebuild, line 57 called pkg-setp die
> Cairo needs the X flag set

Hrm... perhaps it's time you showed us the output of:

# emerge --info

Anyhow, this should be solved by:

# echo x11-libs/cairo X >> /etc/portage/package.use
# emerge --oneshot x11-libs/cairo

Perhaps you should also read the Gentoo handbook [1] if you haven't done so 
already? Parts 2 ("Working with Gentoo") and 3 ("Working with Portage") are 
the important ones here. Some of these questions should be answered by 
that...?

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on installing Gnome (gnome-light)

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Bo,

- snip -

> Otherwise please show the output of:
> 
> # equery check gnome-base/gnome-session

# equery check gnome-base/gnome-session
-bash command not found

# emerge --search equery
Application not found

# emerge equery
emerge : there are no ebuilds to satify "equery"

- snip -


> Perhaps show 
> the output of:
> 
> # emerge -pv gnome-base/gnome-vfs

# emerge -pv gnome-base/gnome-vfs
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies   \b\b... done!
[ebuild  N    ] net-misc/neon-0.26.1  USE="nls ssl zlib -expat -gnutls
-socks5 -static" 763 kB 
[ebuild  NS   ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.19  USE="X -debug -doc -jpeg -tiff
-xinerama" 0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libglade-2.5.1  USE="-debug -doc" 310 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pycairo-1.0.2  USE="gtk -numeric -svg" 458
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/numeric-23.7  708 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pygtk-2.8.6  USE="-doc -opengl" 739 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libdaemon-0.8  USE="-doc" 323 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-python/pyrex-0.9.4.1  177 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/dbus-0.61-r1  USE="X gtk python -debug -doc
-mono -qt3" 1,695 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] net-dns/avahi-0.6.10  USE="dbus gdbm gtk python
-bookmarks -doc -howl-compat -mdnsresponder-compat -mono -qt3" 859 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libIDL-0.8.6  USE="-debug -static" 342 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/orbit-2.14.0  USE="ssl -debug -doc -static"
687 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gconf-2.14.0  USE="-debug -doc" 1,851 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1  USE="nls" 316 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.2-r1  USE="nls" 939 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-r2  USE="nls -dynamic" 297
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.25  USE="perl python -doc -guile
-java -php -ruby -tcl -tk" 3,370 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-libs/libcap-1.10-r5  USE="python -nocxx -static" 38
kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.0-r1  286 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/libusb-0.1.11  USE="-debug -doc" 368 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/usbutils-0.71-r1  159 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/hotplug-20040923-r2  43 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.7-r3  USE="crypt -acpi -debug -dmi
-doc -pcmcia" 1,492 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.14.0  USE="-debug -doc" 1,354 kB

[ebuild  N    ] app-admin/gamin-0.1.7  USE="-debug -doc" 0 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1  USE="avahi hal ipv6 ssl
-debug -doc -gnutls -samba" 1,773 kB 

Total size of downloads: 19,357 kB
* END *

- snip -


> Hrm... perhaps it's time you showed us the output of:
> 
> # emerge --info

# emerge --info
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo
http://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/ ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/
"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local'
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cli crypt cups dbus
dlloader dri esd fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal ipv6 isdnlog libg++
ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline
reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode
xorg zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_apm
video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus
video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint
video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic
video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge
video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis
video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident
video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga
video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
* * * END * * *


> Anyhow, this should be solved by:
> 
> # echo x11-libs/cairo X >> /etc/portage/package.use
> # emerge --oneshot x11-libs/cairo

# echo x11-libs/cairo X >> /etc/portage/package.use
No printout

# emerge --oneshot x11-libs/cairo
emerge : there are no ebuilds to satisfy "x-11-libs/cairo"


Others noted with tks.


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