walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/23/2014 12:50 PM, cov...@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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com