[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Thu Oct 18 19:32:28 UTC 2018
On 10/18/2018 12:36 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 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:
>
> .....
>
> 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.
>
>
The good (and bad :D) news is .. I have tried to install xfce on my
cubbietruck plus .. and I have hit the same issue.
I am going to try to get it working now.
If I get it working, I'll post the solution.
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