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I am assuming this is with the generic image?<br>
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I did not know we now had an easy way to install epel, I was using
the instructions on the wiki. Could you share your epel.repo
content?<br>
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Finally I am guessing the machiattobin as an x64 arm? Which would
point toward an x32 issue, so something that the x64 image and
groups are different from the x32 image.<br>
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Thanks for sharing this!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/18 12:49 AM, Skorpeo Skorpeo
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<div>I was able to install xfce on a machiattobin via:</div>
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yum groupinstall xfce</div>
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<div>just my two cents<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM Johnny Hughes
<<a href="mailto:johnny@centos.org" moz-do-not-send="true">johnny@centos.org</a>>
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10/18/2018 03:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On 10/18/18 3:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:<br>
>> On 10/18/2018 02:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 10/18/18 3:32 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:<br>
>>>> On 10/18/2018 12:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:<br>
>>>>> Some progress<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On 10/17/18 8:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz
wrote:<br>
>>>>>> Johnny,<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> I have this new keyboard with a
poorly positioned Del key, and I<br>
>>>>>> deleted your message in such a way
that it seems to be gone. So I<br>
>>>>>> went to the archive and pulled it up
there.<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> yum group install Xfce "X Window
System"<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Helped. It added 6 packages plus 21
dependencies:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Installing for group install "X
Window System":<br>
>>>>>> plymouth-system-theme armv7hl
0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos<br>
>>>>>> base 31 k<br>
>>>>>> spice-vdagent armv7hl
0.14.0-15.el7 base 66 k<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-drivers armv7hl
7.7-6.el7 base 8.3 k<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg armv7hl
1.19.5-5.el7 base 1.2 M<br>
>>>>>> xorg-x11-utils armv7hl
7.5-22.el7 base 107 k<br>
>>>>>> xvattr armv7hl
1.3-27.el7 base 22 k<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> But I am now at the situation where
the login fails and I end up<br>
>>>>>> right<br>
>>>>>> back at the login page. I looked at
the message log and see the<br>
>>>>>> following:<br>
>>>>> .....<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I have had some help in private exchanges
and have done the following:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> yum install avahi gnome-backgrounds<br>
>>>>> systemctl enable avahi-daemon<br>
>>>>> systemctl start avahi-daemon<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> this took care of a number of errors, but
why gnome-backgrounds for<br>
>>>>> Xfce<br>
>>>>> to deal with the message:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Oct 17 20:17:39 ct-c7 journal: Failed to
load background<br>
>>>>>
'<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg">file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg</a>': Error
opening<br>
>>>>> file
/usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg: No such file or<br>
>>>>> directory<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> But still a couple of unresolved errors
that are stopping the login:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> =============private
exchange=====================<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Oct 18 10:45:34 ct-c7 journal: Some
code accessed the property<br>
>>>>>> 'AuthList' on<br>
>>>>>> the module 'authList'. That property
was defined with 'let' or<br>
>>>>>> 'const' inside<br>
>>>>>> the module. This was previously
supported, but is not correct<br>
>>>>>> according to the<br>
>>>>>> ES6 standard. Any symbols to be
exported from a module must be<br>
>>>>>> defined with<br>
>>>>>> 'var'. The property access will work
as previously for the time<br>
>>>>>> being, but<br>
>>>>>> please fix your code anyway.<br>
>>>>> gnome-shell --- a nasty piece of work,
and one the Gnome Mafia<br>
>>>>> want to cram down our throats<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Fedora next ship was blocked by this for
a while ....<br>
>>>>> definitely file a bug and carp publicly<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> =============end private
exchange=====================<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So to publicly carp...<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I even tried installing gnome-shell:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> # yum install gnome-shell<br>
>>>>> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror<br>
>>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached
hostfile<br>
>>>>> * base: <a
href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * centos-kernel: <a
href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * extras: <a
href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> * updates: <a
href="http://mirror.siena.edu" rel="noreferrer"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mirror.siena.edu</a><br>
>>>>> Package gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.armv7hl
already installed and latest<br>
>>>>> version<br>
>>>>> Nothing to do<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So what does it want? This is a bug...<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> And along with the above message is:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Oct 18 10:45:36 ct-c7
org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager<br>
>>>>> warning: "XF86RFKill" is not a valid
accelerator<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> This is also a bug to file with a need
for that the accelerator not<br>
>>>>> be called when the modules is absent, as
on arm?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> So I think I am getting closer to running
Xfce, but stumbling along<br>
>>>>> the way.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> All help on the above greatly
appreciated.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>> The good (and bad :D) news is .. I have tried
to install xfce on my<br>
>>>> cubbietruck plus .. and I have hit the same
issue.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am going to try to get it working now.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> If I get it working, I'll post the solution.<br>
>>> thanks for digging into this. I was looking for
a x86 box to do a<br>
>>> 'standard' minimal install and then install Xfce
and see what was being<br>
>>> dropped on the box. Thing is, where do I have an
x86 box here other<br>
>>> than my notebook?<br>
>> I am quite sure the issue is some pieces GNOME need
to be installed to<br>
>> make everything work.<br>
>><br>
>> I am going to try 2 things:<br>
>><br>
>> 1) a gnome desktop install .. but afterwards only use
xfce<br>
> <br>
> I can confirm that this works. It is how I got my first
working Xfce,<br>
> see my post back on 10-14 9:34am EDT.<br>
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This does work .. so we really just need to figure out the
minimum<br>
number of packages to make this work.<br>
<br>
BTW . firefox is absolutely not usable with a 2GB
cubietruck_plus in xfce.<br>
<br>
If someone wanted to seriously use this setup, it would not be
on this<br>
machine.<br>
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> <br>
>> 2) try with mate and lightdm and not gdm for the main
screen .. then use<br>
>> xfce or mate<br>
> <br>
> It would be nice to use lightdm rather than gdm on arm.
Fedora is, but<br>
> then I found some bugs on lightdm that have since been
fixed (otherwise<br>
> F29 would not be in beta, as it was a blocker or
something like that).<br>
> <br>
> I looked at mate, but had already adjusted to xfce thanks
to it<br>
> appearing in the first Fedora-arm images.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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I'll see if I can figure out what is missing to make xfce
work with a<br>
minimal install.<br>
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