From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed! Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:15:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87o98plv5b.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87ftu8u9r9.fsf@elephly.net> <871s5omzjd.fsf@elephly.net> <87pnt5ly89.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFa9-0000tj-MZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:15:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFa5-0007ka-1G for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:15:49 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o53.zoho.com ([135.84.80.218]:21848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ghFa1-0007g9-HP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:15:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pnt5ly89.fsf@elephly.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Rene Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Hi again, I wrote: >>> I rebase wip-gnome3.30 on top of the master branch and reconfigured, but >>> I cannot get GNOME to start. I deleted the slim-service-type and added >>> (gdm-service) to my configuration. >>> >>> I moved ~/.xsession out of the way, but after logging in GNOME still >>> won=E2=80=99t start. Could you share your configuration file that you u= sed to >>> successfully start GNOME 3.30? >>> >> >> * I use wip-gnome3.30 branch and then apply the mentioned patches!. >> * I do not use the .xsession file. >> * After testing and reconfiguring my system several times some files in = `/var/lib` were outdated; and renamed '/var/lib` and then reconfigured my s= ystem. > > I removed ~/.cache and ~/.config/gnome*, and I moved .xsession out of > the way, but I still cannot start GNOME. GDM comes up fine, but after > inputing my credentials the mouse cursor skips to the bottom right > corner and then I=E2=80=99m thrown back into the GDM login screen. > > There is nothing relevant in /var/lib, I think. > > I=E2=80=99ve also tried to do this in a VM, but everything is terribly sl= ow, so > I can=E2=80=99t get past the GDM login screen. Ludo reminded me that the VM script defaults to allocating only 256MB RAM. After passing =E2=80=9C-m 1024=E2=80=9D things worked just fine. I c= ould successfully log into GNOME. Sorry, Rene, for the confusion! Now the only remaining question is: what files on my system cause this failure to start GNOME? I=E2=80=99ll be playing with this some more and ho= pe to identify the files that are responsible, so that we can either work around this or document it. -- Ricardo