On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@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
