On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> For me, gnome 3.2 has been quite a regression over 3.0. > > Weird; for me it works so much better than 3.0. > >> Summary: >> >> gdm-3.2.0-r1 crashes and when I revert to the 3.0 gdm, I get to the >> login screen but then gnome-shell crashes. I tried to downgrade to >> gnome-shell-3.0.2-r1, but that needs libgnome-menu, which is not in >> portage/layman. >> >> The crash of gdm is described in bug #385525. >> >> The crash of gnome-shell is described in the following .xsession-errors >> file (tracker-miner-fs.log and tracker-store.log are empty). >> >> any help would be appreciated. >> allan > > Are you running the updated git of gnome-overlay? I had troubles with > gnome-settings-daemon until a couple of days.
I believe I have been running the latest overlay. I do an eix-sync every morning and /etc/eix-sync.conf contains -C --ignore-default-opts -C --quiet gnome However, I will run layman --sync-all > Can you try to start GNOME with a clean config (no ~/.config, no > ~/.local, no ~/.gconf, no ~/.gnome*). I tried that this morning; no improvement > Also, in my case, having gnome-shell extensions installed caused me > problems when upgrading. I do not have the extensions installed. >From the gentoo bug #385525 there is a report that disabling the gnome-shell USE flag for gdm, permits gdm-3.2.0-r1 to run, but does not solve the problem with gnome-shell crashing. I can confirm this behavior and am now running gdm-3.2.0-r1 with gnome-shell disabled. I just now did layman --sync-all emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world Only libraw and (of course) portage were merged. emerge --depclean found nothing redundant revdep-rebuild still wants to reinstall totem-pl-parser and gpointing-device-settings. Both fail with bugs that (I believe) are unrelated. In a fit of paranoia, I did another reboot at this point. The results were the same: gdm does NOT crash, but gnome-shell DOES Perhaps I have bad USE flags (-gnome-shell is a new change the others are as they have been for quite a while)? oldlap ~ # eix -e gdm; eix -e gnome-shell [I] gnome-base/gdm Available versions: 2.20.11 (~)2.20.11-r1 [M](~)2.32.1 [M](~)2.32.1-r1 {M}(~)3.0.4-r2[1] {M}(~)3.2.0-r1[1] {accessibility afs branding +consolekit debug dmx elibc_glibc fprint gnome-keyring +gnome-shell +introspection ipv6 pam remote selinux smartcard tcpd test xinerama +xklavier} Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](10:55:08 AM 10/12/2011)(accessibility consolekit elibc_glibc introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -debug -fprint -gnome-keyring -gnome-shell -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ Description: GNOME Display Manager [1] "gnome" /var/lib/layman/gnome [I] gnome-base/gnome-shell Available versions: {M}(~)3.0.2-r1 {M}(~)3.1.4[1] {M}(~)3.2.0-r1[1] {M}**9999[1] {+nm-applet} Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](10:41:40 PM 10/01/2011) Homepage: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell Description: Provides core UI functions for the GNOME 3 desktop [1] "gnome" /var/lib/layman/gnome oldlap ~ # Thanks for you help and patience, allan