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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:19:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc80RtP0nHt4YwPm3ukvXgjHcvDdS9eqZDVaAwJmwC+LXxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yu9mxd6dj0i.fsf@nyu.edu>

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>> When you do layman --sync-all, sometimes the ebuilds are updated, but
>> with the same version. Try to recompile every ebuild in the overlay
>> that you have installed in your system. At least, try to recompile
>> gdm, gnome-shell, and all of its direct dependencies, the packages in
>> COMMON_DEPEND, RDEPEND and DEPEND) in the gnome-shell-3.2.0-r1 ebuild.
>> Minus the use enabled where you don't set the use flag, of course.
>
> Recompiles done.  No change
>   1.  If gdm maintains its gnome-shell use flag, it crashes
>   2.  If gdm has -gnome-shell in package.use, it runs
>       but gnome-shell (or something else invoked on login with
>       an "empty user") crashes
>
>> Also: modify /etc/gdm/custom.conf and in the [debug] key set
>> "Enable=true". And modify /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop and
>> replace Exec=gnome-session with Exec=gnome-session --debug. Then a lot
>> more info will be available in ~/.xsession-errors, and we will know
>> more.
>
> Done.  Output below (naturally this is with the gnome-shell use flag
> disabled.
>
> I notice that I have the default "accessibility" use flag on.
> I am tempted to turn it off to reduce the number of packages
> involved.  Any downside?

Not that I know of. Can you please backup /var/lib/gdm, and clean the
directory completely? Don't erase the directory, just its contents
(including *ALL* the hidden files); gdm needs this directory to start,
and it's gid gdm and uid gdm.

After you have cleaned it, recompile gdm with the gnome-shell and try
again. I still don't see why gnome-shell is not starting, but gdm may
have problems with its user config (which is stored in /var/lib/gdm),
and *maybe* gnome-shell cannot start correctly if gdm is not built
with the gnome-shell use flag.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-12 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-11 22:13 [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok) Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-11 22:30 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-11 23:42   ` David Abbott
2011-10-12  1:19     ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12  1:18   ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12  1:37     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 14:26       ` David Abbott
2011-10-12 16:52         ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 15:31   ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 16:49     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 20:58       ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 21:19         ` Canek Peláez Valdés [this message]
2011-10-12 21:53           ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 22:08             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 22:16               ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-12 22:25                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-12 22:27               ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 22:52                 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13  0:04                   ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13  0:02                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13  1:20                   ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13  1:36                     ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13  4:10                       ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 13:39                         ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13  8:58                       ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-13 13:29                         ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13 13:36                           ` Michael Mol
2011-10-13 13:47                             ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13 13:53                               ` Michael Mol
2011-10-13 15:05                               ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-14  1:03                                 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 21:40         ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-12 22:02           ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-12 22:10             ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-12 22:46               ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13  0:03                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-13 13:34           ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-13 18:45             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-14  1:20               ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-10-14  1:58                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-14  2:44                   ` Allan Gottlieb
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-13 12:21 Denis I. Polukarov

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