[Arm-dev] Attempt to install Xfce by hand
Johnny Hughes
johnny at centos.org
Mon Oct 22 15:30:24 UTC 2018
On 10/19/2018 04:43 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am assuming this is with the generic image?
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for sharing this!
>
> On 10/19/18 12:49 AM, Skorpeo Skorpeo wrote:
>> I was able to install xfce on a machiattobin via:
>>
>> yum install epel-release
>> yum groupinstall xfce
>>
>> just my two cents
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 2:04 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org
>> <mailto:johnny at centos.org>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/18/2018 03:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 10/18/18 3:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> >> On 10/18/2018 02:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 10/18/18 3:32 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> >>>> 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 <http://mirror.siena.edu>
>> >>>>> * centos-kernel: mirror.siena.edu <http://mirror.siena.edu>
>> >>>>> * extras: mirror.siena.edu <http://mirror.siena.edu>
>> >>>>> * updates: mirror.siena.edu <http://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.
>> >>> thanks for digging into this. I was looking for a x86 box to do a
>> >>> 'standard' minimal install and then install Xfce and see what
>> was being
>> >>> dropped on the box. Thing is, where do I have an x86 box here
>> other
>> >>> than my notebook?
>> >> I am quite sure the issue is some pieces GNOME need to be
>> installed to
>> >> make everything work.
>> >>
>> >> I am going to try 2 things:
>> >>
>> >> 1) a gnome desktop install .. but afterwards only use xfce
>> >
>> > I can confirm that this works. It is how I got my first working
>> Xfce,
>> > see my post back on 10-14 9:34am EDT.
>>
>> This does work .. so we really just need to figure out the minimum
>> number of packages to make this work.
>>
>> BTW . firefox is absolutely not usable with a 2GB cubietruck_plus
>> in xfce.
>>
>> If someone wanted to seriously use this setup, it would not be on this
>> machine.
>>
>> >
>> >> 2) try with mate and lightdm and not gdm for the main screen ..
>> then use
>> >> xfce or mate
>> >
>> > It would be nice to use lightdm rather than gdm on arm. Fedora
>> is, but
>> > then I found some bugs on lightdm that have since been fixed
>> (otherwise
>> > F29 would not be in beta, as it was a blocker or something like
>> that).
>> >
>> > I looked at mate, but had already adjusted to xfce thanks to it
>> > appearing in the first Fedora-arm images.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I'll see if I can figure out what is missing to make xfce work with a
>> minimal install.
Robert, try this:
yum group install Core Base Xfce "X Window System"
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