Some progress
On 10/17/18 8:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Johnny,
I have this new keyboard with a poorly positioned Del key, and I deleted your message in such a way that it seems to be gone. So I went to the archive and pulled it up there.
yum group install Xfce "X Window System"
Helped. It added 6 packages plus 21 dependencies:
Installing for group install "X Window System": plymouth-system-theme armv7hl 0.8.9-0.31.20140113.el7.centos base 31 k spice-vdagent armv7hl 0.14.0-15.el7 base 66 k xorg-x11-drivers armv7hl 7.7-6.el7 base 8.3 k xorg-x11-server-Xorg armv7hl 1.19.5-5.el7 base 1.2 M xorg-x11-utils armv7hl 7.5-22.el7 base 107 k xvattr armv7hl 1.3-27.el7 base 22 k
But I am now at the situation where the login fails and I end up right back at the login page. I looked at the message log and see the following:
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I have had some help in private exchanges and have done the following:
yum install avahi gnome-backgrounds systemctl enable avahi-daemon systemctl start avahi-daemon
this took care of a number of errors, but why gnome-backgrounds for Xfce to deal with the message:
Oct 17 20:17:39 ct-c7 journal: Failed to load background 'file:///usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg': Error opening file /usr/share/backgrounds/gnome/adwaita-lock.jpg: No such file or directory
But still a couple of unresolved errors that are stopping the login:
=============private exchange=====================
Oct 18 10:45:34 ct-c7 journal: Some code accessed the property 'AuthList' on the module 'authList'. That property was defined with 'let' or 'const' inside the module. This was previously supported, but is not correct according to the ES6 standard. Any symbols to be exported from a module must be defined with 'var'. The property access will work as previously for the time being, but please fix your code anyway.
gnome-shell --- a nasty piece of work, and one the Gnome Mafia want to cram down our throats
Fedora next ship was blocked by this for a while .... definitely file a bug and carp publicly
=============end private exchange=====================
So to publicly carp...
I even tried installing gnome-shell:
# yum install gnome-shell Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.siena.edu * centos-kernel: mirror.siena.edu * extras: mirror.siena.edu * updates: mirror.siena.edu Package gnome-shell-3.26.2-5.el7.armv7hl already installed and latest version Nothing to do
So what does it want? This is a bug...
And along with the above message is:
Oct 18 10:45:36 ct-c7 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: "XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator
This is also a bug to file with a need for that the accelerator not be called when the modules is absent, as on arm?
So I think I am getting closer to running Xfce, but stumbling along the way.
All help on the above greatly appreciated.