Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:06:02AM -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote
> > When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no,
> > something has gone wrong.  The log file is at
> > http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6   -- I would appreciate any help.
> > 
> > I am running gentoo testing with the 3.8 unmasked.
> 
>   Direct from the "Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users"
> flamewar on gentoo-dev...
> 
> > And now that GNOME 3.8 is out, the game starts over again: logind
> > is a hard requirement, logind is part of systemd, starting logind
> > (which replaces consolekit) is not that trivial as you may think
> > (and is the thing I started to work on anyway).
> > 
> > And if this wasn't enough, it means that if you want GNOME 3.8,
> > you need to get logind, which may or not may get included in our
> > udev ebuild and if it won't, it means that you will be forced to use
> > systemd as device manager if you want GNOME 3.8, which is believe
> > it or not, the thing that Ubuntu did.
> 
>   Do you have systemd/logind installed?

Nope, sure don't.   None of the ebuilds pulled it in.  But what about
startx?  Would I need logind to do that?

> 
> -- 
> Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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         covici@ccs.covici.com