On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:06:02AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote > When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, > something has gone wrong. The log file is at > http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. > > I am running gentoo testing with the 3.8 unmasked.
Direct from the "Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users" flamewar on gentoo-dev... > And now that GNOME 3.8 is out, the game starts over again: logind > is a hard requirement, logind is part of systemd, starting logind > (which replaces consolekit) is not that trivial as you may think > (and is the thing I started to work on anyway). > > And if this wasn't enough, it means that if you want GNOME 3.8, > you need to get logind, which may or not may get included in our > udev ebuild and if it won't, it means that you will be forced to use > systemd as device manager if you want GNOME 3.8, which is believe > it or not, the thing that Ubuntu did. Do you have systemd/logind installed? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications