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 ================================================================ 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 #