* On 2015-01-14 at 15:51 GMT, J Marc Edwards via smartos-discuss wrote: > I'm tyring to install the gnome-session in the GZ. > > Any thoughts here?
Only that you should expect pain. SmartOS is simply not designed for this use-case, nor for running on laptops to answer a current question in another thread. It is highly opinionated software designed to run containers on headless servers in a data centre, and you will find it actively hostile to attempts to make it work in alternative surroundings. It's not that these things are impossible - it's just software after all - but once you step outside of the design constraints you should really ask the question whether SmartOS is still the best fit for your requirements out of the myriad OS available. If you really believe that SmartOS is your best option here, then the way forward for your particular use case is going to be a reasonable amount of manual work to identify all of the users and SMF services required for gnome-session and its dependencies, pre-create those (and ensure they are re-created by a custom SMF on every subsequent boot), and then carefully install each dependent package observing whether the install completes successfully and you can run the service (and if not you will have to clean up the failed /opt/local/pkg directories manually before trying again). Personally though I'd strongly recommend looking at a different OS to fit your requirements - OmniOS is a fine choice if you want something illumos-based with a more general purpose flavour, and pkgsrc works great there too. -- Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
