Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 09:21 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: > > > On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > >>> On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: > Any hints where to lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Thu, Jul 05 2012, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: >>> On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. >>> Hmm, do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Alex Schuster
William Kenworthy writes: > On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > > On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. > > > > Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory > > in /etc/passwd

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:57 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. > > BTW, you could check ~/.xsession-error (or something like this). Nice > logfile. > > Philipp > > Except it nev

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. BTW, you could check ~/.xsession-error (or something like this). Nice logfile. Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 05.07.2012 14:43, William Kenworthy wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:24 +0200, Philipp Riegger wrote: > On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. > > Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? > > Philipp > > Not polkitd but a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 05.07.2012 14:00, William Kenworthy wrote: Any hints where to look next as the gdm logs arent very informative. Hmm, do you have a user polkitd with invalid home directory in /etc/passwd? Philipp

[gentoo-user] Failed gnome3 upgrade

2012-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
I am having problems with gnome3/X on an old Sony Vaio. Its had gentoo/gnome2 on it for years but after this upgrade to gnome3 gdm stops at a black screen with a rotating cursor. So far I have tried 3.1.1 and 3.4.4 kernels plus rebuilding everything I can think of. KMS looks like its set correct