Hello, Alan.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 07:16:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 11/01/2014 19:02, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> > I finally got round to emerging my post-gnome system, triggered by the
> > stabilisation of gnome-3, and the consequent shift to systemd, and what
> > not. I last synched my /usr/portage 34 days ago. I had been putting
> > this change off, it turns out, with good reason.
> > Now when I attempt to start xfce (which I'd been using fine for a long
> > time) with "startx", it appears at first to be OK: the desktop is
> > displayed on the screen and the mouse works. However, after a few
> > seconds of waiting, X crashes out, returning to the tty. On a second
> > attempt to start X (without rebooting), it doesn't get as far as
> > displaying the desktop - it just crashes.
> > To eradicate gnome, I changed my profile from
> > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome to
> > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, and removed the gnome USE flag from my
> > /etc/make.conf (and maybe one or two other things I can't remember). My
> > box then spend 6 hours rebuilding software.
> > On the screen of the tty, after X crashes, appear the following error
> > messages which might be relevant:
> > xfce4-session: GNOME compatibility is enabled and gnome-keyring-daemon
> > is found on the system. Skipping gpg/ssh-agent startup.
> > env: kdeinit4: No such file or directory
> > Cannot find '.setLaunchEnv' in object /KLauncher at org.kde.klauncher
> > (xfce4-session:3112): GLib-WARNING **: GChildWatchSource: Exit status
> > of a
> > child process was requested but ECHILD was received by waitpid(). Most
> > likely
> > the process is ignoring SIGCHLD, or some other thread is invoking
> > waitpid()
> > with a nonpositive first argument; either behavior can break
> > applications
> > that use g_child_watch_add()/g_spawn_sync() either directly or
> > indirectly.
> > xfce4-panel: Restarting...
> > (xfwm4:3125): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
> > (xfwm4:3125): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: Disconnected from session manager.
> > (xfsettingsd:3136): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: ICE I/O Error
> > (xfsettingsd:3136): libxfce4ui-WARNING **: Disconnected from session
> > manager.
> > /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 107: 3112 Segmentation fault
> > xfce4-session
> This is the worrisome line.
> First, could you confirm if you did the full complete portage steps
> while migrating:
> - tweak USE, profile etc etc
DONE
> - emerge -avUND world
emerge -uND DONE.
> - emerge -av @preserved-rebuild
Not done. When I do this with -p, I get wierdnesses. emerge wants
to install cifs-utils and samba (why, I can't fathom) and says they
have mutual dependencies. It also wants to update
gnome-control-center to gnome-3.
Then it complains about (mainly) gnome stuff, alleging it should be
updated to gnome-3.8 versions. Hmm.
> - emerge --depclean
Not done in a million years. I do this with -p, then I see 289
packages need removing. How important is this? (or is my last post
the answer to this question?)
> - revdep-rebuild [seldom necessary these days, I usually do it out of
> habit...]
I tried this, and it reported "everything up to date".
> Let's first establish if portage reckons the system is consistent before
> trying to track down why your session segfaults
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> [email protected]
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
