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

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/23/2014 12:50 PM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Hi.  Well, I thought I was making progress with systemd, but my gnome
> > session kept saying "oh no something has gone wrong" and would not
> > work.  Also, after such a thing has happened, all my consoles would keep
> > using the last line to put every line and so I had to keep rebooting.
> > And when I would reboot systemd would not behave the same way, sometimes
> > it would hang at certain places, and sometimes it would go all the way
> > through, but things would not start properly -- maybe a concurrency
> > problem, but its hard to say what was going on.  What a mess, but I
> > guess I have a setup which systemd does not like, too much parallellism
> > and no way to get things to start in the order I want them -- or at
> > least none I could figure out!
> > 
> > I am open to suggestions here, and I have a log segment I can put
> > somewhere to illustrage the "oh no" problem, but I am getting tired of
> > the mess and if I can find something which works with orca I will do
> > that instead.
> 
> I've spent many frustrating days fighting the "oh no" syndrome and I
> found two very annoying workarounds before I gave up on gnome3.
> 
> First, the file ~/.gnomerc-errors may give you some good hints. Many
> of my "oh no" moments were caused by broken xorg 3D rendering support,
> i.e. broken video drivers, etc, etc.
> 
> Second, many other "oh no" moments were caused by $SOME_MYSTERIOUS
> item in ~/.config or ~/.local suddenly rendered erroneous by a gnome3
> update.
> 
> I found some of those problem items by renaming those two directories
> and starting with a completely blank gnome3 slate.
> 
> If gnome-shell starts okay with the new tabla rasa then you can copy
> the old .local and .config subdirectories one by one into the new gnome
> environment until you can reproduce the original breakage.  Repeat as
> needed.

Thanks for the hint --I have no ~/.gnomerc-errors -- I have a
.Xsession-errors, but it never told me anything useful.

I may try your other suggestion next time I have the courage to boot
into systemd.


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         covici@ccs.covici.com