From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3F71381F3 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9422E0882; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C9168E084C for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (s-out-001.smtp25.com [67.228.91.90]) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r4G1AAam012482 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:10:11 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4G1A9Hm027383 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 21:10:09 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working In-reply-to: <20130515182710.GB27396@waltdnes.org> References: <10356.1368443162@ccs.covici.com> <20130515182710.GB27396@waltdnes.org> Comments: In-reply-to waltdnes@waltdnes.org message dated "Wed, 15 May 2013 14:27:10 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:10:09 -0400 Message-ID: <27382.1368666609@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-r4G1AAam012482 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 7ff2a01f-e351-43b6-b7e6-91048f253167 X-Archives-Hash: 927d0983981fe42b0b79558c3acf9a67 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 > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com