[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Oct 14 11:51:39 UTC 2018



On 10/12/18 3:24 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>
> El 12/10/18 a las 14:08, Robert Moskowitz escribió:
>>
>>
>> So I shouldn't rush out to do more testing.  I may have the group 
>> 'soon' and do it right?  I can afford to assign more time to my paid 
>> consulting right now!
> Please test as much as you can, I don't know how long it will take me 
> to add the groups

So let's start afresh.  I edited the seemingly appropriate group xml 
files I picked up from the main Centos repo.  First I built a clean 
install, did yum update, added the epel1 repo, and created a user. Then 
I installed the rpms from the X11 DE:

yum install glx-utils initial-setup-gui mesa-dri-drivers 
plymouth-system-theme spice-vdagent xorg-x11-drivers 
xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-utils xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xinit xvattr 
tigervnc-server wayland-protocols-devel xorg-x11-drv-keyboard 
xorg-x11-drv-libinput xorg-x11-drv-mouse xorg-x11-drv-openchrome

there was:
No package xorg-x11-drv-openchrome available.

But that SHOULD be OK.  Then I installed the Xfce DE:

yum install Thunar xfce-utils xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-settings 
xfconf xfdesktop xfwm4 gdm leafpad openssh-askpass orage polkit-gnome 
thunar-archive-plugin thunar-volman tumbler xfce4-appfinder 
xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-power-manager xfce4-session-engines 
xfce4-terminal xfwm4-theme-nodoka xfwm4-themes pinentry

No package xfce-utils available.
No package leafpad available.
No package xfce4-icon-theme available.
No package xfwm4-theme-nodoka available.

This bothers me.  Probably really need xfce-utils.  Mousepad will do in 
place of leafpad as that is what Fedora has switched to.

Powered off, connected my KVM that has my Kybd and mouse and directly 
connected the HDMI monitor connection (the KVM only supports VGA).  And 
powered up....

I see the following on the serial console as the HDMI monitor goes blank:

[  OK  ] Reached target Login Prompts.
          Starting GNOME Display Manager...
[FAILED] Failed to start Crash recovery kernel arming.
See 'systemctl status kdump.service' for details.
[  OK  ] Started GNOME Display Manager.

kdump is of no concern.

And Centos is still using the Gnome DM, not dmlight as Fedora does now.  
NO dmlight in the repo, I tried installing it after the following test:

Finally get to the login screen and I log in and after a while I am back 
at the login screen.  :(

So I look at the last 40 lines in /var/log/messages:

Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 journal: Failed to connect to avahi service: 
Daemon not running
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2'
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Started Location Lookup Service.
Oct 14 07:42:41 ct-c7 journal: Error looking up permission: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore was not provided by any 
.service files
Oct 14 07:42:42 ct-c7 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: 
"XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator
Oct 14 07:42:42 ct-c7 journal: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID 
for output
Oct 14 07:42:44 ct-c7 journal: unable to get EDID for xrandr-default: 
unable to get EDID for output
Oct 14 07:42:45 ct-c7 journal: JS WARNING: 
[resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 29]: reference to undefined 
property "MetaWindowX11"
Oct 14 07:42:53 ct-c7 journal: JS ERROR: TypeError: item is 
undefined#012NMConnectionDevice<._activeConnectionChanged at resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/status/network.js:398:13#012wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/_legacy.js:82:22
[root at ct-c7 log]# tail messages -n40
Oct 14 07:42:22 ct-c7 journal: JS WARNING: 
[resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 221]: reference to undefined 
property "MetaWindowGroup"
Oct 14 07:42:22 ct-c7 journal: JS WARNING: 
[resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/osdMonitorLabeler.js 59]: reference to 
undefined property "MetaDBusDisplayConfigSkeleton"
Oct 14 07:42:25 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.locale1' 
unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.locale1.service'
Oct 14 07:42:25 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Locale Service...
Oct 14 07:42:25 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.locale1'
Oct 14 07:42:25 ct-c7 systemd: Started Locale Service.
Oct 14 07:42:25 ct-c7 journal: Failed to launch ibus-daemon: Failed to 
execute child process “ibus-daemon” (No such file or directory)
Oct 14 07:42:27 ct-c7 journal: JS WARNING: 
[resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/slider.js 38]: reference to undefined 
property "CallyActor"
Oct 14 07:42:27 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' unit='geoclue.service'
Oct 14 07:42:27 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Oct 14 07:42:28 ct-c7 journal: Failed to connect to avahi service: 
Daemon not running
Oct 14 07:42:28 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2'
Oct 14 07:42:28 ct-c7 systemd: Started Location Lookup Service.
Oct 14 07:42:28 ct-c7 journal: No permission to trigger offline updates: 
Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: 
Action org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update is not registered
Oct 14 07:42:30 ct-c7 spice-vdagent[1540]: Cannot access vdagent virtio 
channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
Oct 14 07:42:30 ct-c7 gnome-session: gnome-session-binary[1432]: 
WARNING: App 'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 14 07:42:30 ct-c7 gnome-session-binary[1432]: WARNING: App 
'spice-vdagent.desktop' exited with code 1
Oct 14 07:42:31 ct-c7 journal: Failed to get current display 
configuration state: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name 
"org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig" does not exist
Oct 14 07:42:33 ct-c7 gnome-session-binary: Entering running state
Oct 14 07:42:36 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
Oct 14 07:42:38 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' 
unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service'
Oct 14 07:42:38 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Hostname Service...
Oct 14 07:42:38 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.hostname1'
Oct 14 07:42:38 ct-c7 systemd: Started Hostname Service.
Oct 14 07:42:40 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.
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.realmd' unit='realmd.service'
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Realm and Domain Configuration...
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.realmd'
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Started Realm and Domain Configuration.
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Activating via systemd: 
service name='org.freedesktop.GeoClue2' unit='geoclue.service'
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Starting Location Lookup Service...
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 journal: Failed to connect to avahi service: 
Daemon not running
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 dbus[588]: [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.GeoClue2'
Oct 14 07:42:40 ct-c7 systemd: Started Location Lookup Service.
Oct 14 07:42:41 ct-c7 journal: Error looking up permission: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore was not provided by any 
.service files
Oct 14 07:42:42 ct-c7 org.gnome.Shell.desktop: Window manager warning: 
"XF86RFKill" is not a valid accelerator
Oct 14 07:42:42 ct-c7 journal: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID 
for output
Oct 14 07:42:44 ct-c7 journal: unable to get EDID for xrandr-default: 
unable to get EDID for output
Oct 14 07:42:45 ct-c7 journal: JS WARNING: 
[resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/layout.js 29]: reference to undefined 
property "MetaWindowX11"
Oct 14 07:42:53 ct-c7 journal: JS ERROR: TypeError: item is 
undefined#012NMConnectionDevice<._activeConnectionChanged at resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/status/network.js:398:13#012wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/_legacy.js:82:22


So I am missing something...

I will set this drive to the side so we can go back to testing it once 
you tell me whatelse I need to install...

thanks



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