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.
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,
allan
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oldlap ~ # cd /var/lib/gdm
oldlap gdm # ls -lRA
.:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .config
drwxr-x--T 2 root gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .gconf.mandatory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365 Oct 12 17:26 .gconf.path
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 .local
./.config:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 dconf
./.config/dconf:
total 0
./.gconf.mandatory:
total 20
-rw-r----T 1 root gdm 16968 Oct 12 17:26 %gconf-tree.xml
./.local:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 12 17:26 share
./.local/share:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 Oct 12 17:26 applications
./.local/share/applications:
total 0
oldlap gdm #
