I was having problems with gnome-do not loading the applications in /usr/share/applications, and then I just upgrade to gdm-2.26.1 and I was getting errors from gnome-session that it wasn't fidning compiz, gnome-panel, and nautilus. I knew gdm was still very experimental and decided to go back to gdm-2.20 and when I was it tried to pull in the ~amd64 version of xdg-utils. I emerged this one by itself first and then tried gdm, everything is now working, including gnome-do
your report is confusing please try to make it clearer.
Sorry, I'll see what I can do. gdm-2.26.1 needs xdg-utils-1.0.2-r3 After upgrading gdm, I was getting the following in my logs, and Gnome would fail to load Apr 19 11:18:53 twix gdm-session-worker[6333]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session opened for user gibbonsr by (uid=0) Apr 19 11:18:55 twix gnome-session[6368]: EggSMClient-WARNING: Invalid Version string '0.9.4' in /home/gibbonsr/.config/autostart/Conky.desktop Apr 19 11:18:55 twix gnome-session[6368]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'compiz' of required component 'windowmanager' Apr 19 11:18:55 twix gnome-session[6368]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-panel' of required component 'panel' Apr 19 11:18:55 twix gnome-session[6368]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'nautilus' of required component 'filemanager' When I attempted to downgrade gdm to 2.20.10, I noticed it was pulling in a ~amd64 masked xdg-utils. I unmasked and installed, and then GDM would load gnome properly. Another problem with gnome-2.26 , it broke gnome-do for me. After upgrading to this version of xdg-utils, gnome-do is now also fixed. Let me know if you need more clarification. I always have trouble getting my thoughts onto paper.
ok, then first of, xdg-utils has nothing to do with failures with gnome 2.26 afaict. gdm-2.20.10 requiring xdg-utils at the same keyword level is logic because it makes use of something that was previously magically done by gdm itself but crashed as soon as kde was brought to the party. So failures with old gdm without xdg-utils or with new xdg-utils but old gdm are still normal. Now what the status of gdm-2.26 + xdg-utils-1.0.2-r3 ?
Also, could you check this is related to your issue: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69255
No, that link isn't related to my issues. When go through my logs I think my issue was related to XDG variables not being set properly. I think the error message I remember seeing was that XDG_HOME doesn't contain /usr/share, only contains /usr/share/gdm I can't find the error message, but after doing a bit more reading and stuff and the fact it fixed my gnome-do issues (gnome-do wasn't parsing the .desktop entries in /usr/share/applications/).
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/gdm would be the result of installing gdm-2.20.10 by skipping installation of xdg-utils-1.0.2-r3 since gdm-2.26 does touch that variable in this way anymore. What is the output of ls /etc/env.d/ ?
00basic 30xdg-data-local 90games 03opengl 35hsqldb 90opera 04multilib 37fontconfig 90xdg-data-base 05binutils 44qca2 98ca-certificates 05gcc-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 44qt4 99editor 08nspr 45qt3 99flash-libcompat 08nss 50gconf 99fltk-1.1 09sandbox 50gtk2 99gentoolkit-env 10rubygems 50guile 99libstdc++ 20ant 50ncurses 99libstdc++32 20java-config 50qtdir3 99xdg-gdm 20udev 50slib binutils 30java-finalclasspath 70less cblas 30sane 71xulrunner-bin gcc
that's the currently working conf right ? Could you do the same with the broken setup you described ?
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