Re: [gentoo-user] can't build gnome 3.2 (3.0 was ok)

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0.
>
> Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0.
>
>> Summary:
>>
>> gdm-3.2.0-r1 crashes and when I revert to the 3.0 gdm, I get to the
>> login screen but then gnome-shell crashes.  I tried to downgrade to
>> gnome-shell-3.0.2-r1, but that needs libgnome-menu, which is not in
>> portage/layman.
>>
>> The crash of gdm is described in bug #385525.
>>
>> The crash of gnome-shell is described in the following .xsession-errors
>> file (tracker-miner-fs.log and tracker-store.log are empty).
>>
>> any help would be appreciated.
>> allan
>
> Are you running the updated git of gnome-overlay? I had troubles with
> gnome-settings-daemon until a couple of days.

I believe I have been running the latest overlay.  I do an eix-sync
every morning and /etc/eix-sync.conf contains
    -C --ignore-default-opts
    -C --quiet
    gnome
However, I will run
    layman --sync-all

> Can you try to start GNOME with a clean config (no ~/.config, no
> ~/.local, no ~/.gconf, no ~/.gnome*).

I tried that this morning; no improvement

> Also, in my case, having gnome-shell extensions installed caused me
> problems when upgrading.

I do not have the extensions installed.

From the gentoo bug #385525 there is a report that disabling the
gnome-shell USE flag for gdm, permits gdm-3.2.0-r1 to run, but does not
solve the problem with gnome-shell crashing.  I can confirm this
behavior and am now running gdm-3.2.0-r1 with gnome-shell disabled.

I just now did
   layman --sync-all
   emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world

Only libraw and (of course) portage were merged.

emerge --depclean     found nothing redundant

revdep-rebuild   still wants to reinstall totem-pl-parser and
gpointing-device-settings.  Both fail with bugs that (I believe) are
unrelated. 

In a fit of paranoia, I did another reboot at this point.
The results were the same: gdm does NOT crash, but gnome-shell DOES

Perhaps I have bad USE flags (-gnome-shell is a new change the others
are as they have been for quite a while)?

oldlap ~ # eix -e gdm; eix -e gnome-shell
[I] gnome-base/gdm
     Available versions:  2.20.11 (~)2.20.11-r1 [M](~)2.32.1 [M](~)2.32.1-r1 {M}(~)3.0.4-r2[1] {M}(~)3.2.0-r1[1] {accessibility afs branding +consolekit debug dmx elibc_glibc fprint gnome-keyring +gnome-shell +introspection ipv6 pam remote selinux smartcard tcpd test xinerama +xklavier}
     Installed versions:  3.2.0-r1[1](10:55:08 AM 10/12/2011)(accessibility consolekit elibc_glibc introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -debug -fprint -gnome-keyring -gnome-shell -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/
     Description:         GNOME Display Manager

[1] "gnome" /var/lib/layman/gnome
[I] gnome-base/gnome-shell
     Available versions:  {M}(~)3.0.2-r1 {M}(~)3.1.4[1] {M}(~)3.2.0-r1[1] {M}**9999[1] {+nm-applet}
     Installed versions:  3.2.0-r1[1](10:41:40 PM 10/01/2011)
     Homepage:            http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell
     Description:         Provides core UI functions for the GNOME 3 desktop

[1] "gnome" /var/lib/layman/gnome
oldlap ~ # 

Thanks for you help and patience,
allan