On 04/23/2014 01:59 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> On 23/04/14 19:56, Christopher Gregory wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After just on two weeks and many rebuilds later I can say that we ARE
>> able to install gnome on top of a base linux from scratch SYSTEMD build.
>>
>>
> ....
> 
>> The one thing that remains broken is GDM (gnome display manager).  It
>> will not start up even though all of the permissions are set up
>> correctly, and the developers only seem interested in making sure that
>> it works in a red hat environment as red hat have thrown vast sums of
>> money their way and all the gnome documentation on line states that it
>> works on the latest red hat.
> 
> What are the actual error(s) you are getting? I've been running with GDM
> 3.12 with no issues, mind you, I have Gnome installed under /usr.
> Are you using a common libexecdir? I know in the past that GDM assumed
> this directory to be shared with packages such as gnome-settings-daemon,
> polkit-gnome, and gnome-session.
> 
> Wayne.
> 
> 

Thing is gdm being installed in /opt. At least pam files should be in
the right place. Upstream ships pam files for lfs and it will install
them automatically, given that /etc/lfs-release is found.

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