On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> 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. > > I cleaned it. Then built gdm with the gnome-shell flag. This slightly > repopulated the directory (see ls -lAR below). > >> 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. > > gdm again failed (oh no, something has gone wrong) upon restart. > To be certain, I did a reboot, gdm failed again, and then *really* > cleaned the directory (including the files put there by the emerge) > It again failed.
The files would reappear everytime you run gdm; they are its configuration files. > I tried an emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world, > this complained because qt-gui didn't have the accessibility flag. > > So I put back accessibility and redid the update world. > As expected only gdm was rebuilt. > I restarted gdm (via xdm as usual) and the same failure occurred. > > I can't get gdm to run with the gnome-shell use flag. > > What use flags do you have for gdm? Here is mine > Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:47:00 PM 10/12/2011)(accessibility > consolekit elibc_glibc gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -debug > -fprint -gnome-keyring -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) > > thanks for all your efforts, It's really weird; can I see /var/log/messages (or whatever logger file you have)? With Enable=true in the [debug] key on /etc/gdm/custom.conf, we should be able to see why gdm is dying. My flags are: Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:20:40 PM 10/11/2011)(consolekit elibc_glibc gnome-keyring gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -accessibility -debug -fprint -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) Mmmh. I didn't even know you could remove gnome-keyring from gdm. If you are using GNOME, I don't see no reason to disable it. Maybe try it? Anyhow, the logs from gdm failing should tell us something. I don't think is the video, like Michael suggested; supposedly gnome-shell would detect that. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
