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

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:

> Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 24 May 2014 02:19:19 -0400
> > covici@ccs.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.

OK, here is what is happening -- if I do a startx & in any console where
I am logged in, I get a gnome session on that tty (wish it was on the
unused one), and I seem to be good  to go.  However when I try to use
gdm, I no longer get the oh no stuff, but it seems I get a list of some
of my userids, but I can't do anything, I can up arrow to one of them,
but hitting enter does nothing.  Also, tab does nothing, nor do
left/right arrow keys and strangely enough, my name is not among the
listed ids.

Here is a log segment from start to stop of gdm.

https://covici.com/owncloud/public.php?service=files&t=3bae607fe4d5043b325b6339e3672c84

I hope someone can make sense of this because after this happened my
regular ttys won't scroll once they get to the last line and the only
way to solve this problem is to reboot the system.

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com