On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:30:35PM -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > I setup a box w/gnome for someone using the latest amd64 snapshot + > gnome snapshot package. The box has radeondrm with the fw_update > installed. > > I followed the directions in the pkg-readmes to start dbus-daemon, > avahi, gdm. The stuff all starts, and gdm pops up the gnome screen > with the clock at the top and some buttons for a calendar (and some > slider options that don't do much of anything). > > But, that's all that pops up. There's no login or options to do > anything else that I can figure out! > > Am I missing something obvious? From reading other people's > experiences, it sounds like gnome should "just work" at this point. > > fvwm works fine, of course.
GDM is currently broken. Well it's gnome-shell really that is the cullprit. It's being worked on. You can use 'startx' with the following .xinitrc for the time being: ck-launch-session gnome-session Sorry about that. (it seems the issue is a regression in gnome-shell that is only visible on non-systemd OS) -- Antoine
