| Summary: | gnome-base/gdm cannot find X if installed before x11-base/xorg-server | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) <dang> |
| Component: | [OLD] GNOME | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED)
2009-12-04 18:16:52 UTC
OK, so gdm checks for the path for Xserver/X/Xorg in configure for setting X_SERVER_PATH etc. I'm going to just add xorg-server to DEPEND hoping there won't be any idiotic circular dependencies... Done. RDEPEND (and hence DEPEND) added to 2.28.2, thanks for reporting How do we support headless displays then? I'm not sure this is a complete fix, as iirc gdm would be running on a XDMCP headless setup as well as a daemon, or am I mistaken? I'm not sure what you mean by headless systems in this context, but for xdmcp you need a login manager running on both computers; and hence atleast with >gdm-2.21, you need X running. the way I know involves X -ac -query blabla so it still needs X installed. so, any update on how to do headless without X installed on localhost ? (In reply to comment #5) > so, any update on how to do headless without X installed on localhost ? No reply, then, Nirbheek's solution would work, feel free to reopen if there is any way to do headless without X and, then, we would need to fix it in another way. Thanks $ ssh my-desktop-machine -Y gedit Works fine. Assumes sshd to have X11 forwarding enabled of course. No Xorg running on the desktop. It's installed though, but not used at all at runtime as far as I know. I think I'm not considering gdm in this context here and taking it as a broader thing right now, while this bug may not be about that, just the comments went more general; I guess in the grand scheme of things it's better to have gnome meta pull in xorg-server through gdm and make the few headless server users, if any, do the picking or package.pretending instead when they have some sort of gdm-less setup for this What would be the way to go here finally? Thanks (In reply to comment #9) > What would be the way to go here finally? Thanks Will close as looks like current solution (RDEPEND on xorg-server) works for a long time and nobody has complained) |