On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:49 PM, John Watzke watzkej@gmail.com wrote:
What you are testing is TC and not even Alpha so you should expect a lot of broken things. Total System Quality doesn't come straight from the developers themselves. It gets tested and sent back to the developers to fix. The testing part is what we're trying to do here. You should expect to download an image that once installed will probably break in at least 14 different ways. That ensures on release day an end user will download an image that is of high quality.
I am having real problems trying to get a gnome3 session in either tc2 or the last few nightlies on my test laptop - I can boot the live image (off a usbkey), but not to a desktop, and only to a VT. I can mess with /etc/gdm/custom.conf and stop prefdm.service and restart it but although it tries to start a session I get a brief flashing mutter crash box that stays on the gnome3 screen a fraction of a second - and then goes back to the background only - and this reappears briefly again every few seconds. I can kill the session by going to another VT - but no matter how I try to restart using systemctl stop/start prefdm.service, or even trying telinit 3/5 which presumably does the same -(and killing off custom.conf from gdm) nothing works - and although I have seen suggestions to switchuser I can't get this as I am not in a desktop, and the gdm greeter does not have that option - this is wireless so I can't save the log files as I am running off a live image from a liveusb key....
Any magic incantations anyone knows about to work around these issues for a live image and get to a gnome3 desktop (I had gnome3 running from the gnome3 testday image so I know gnome3 will work in this machine)
Thanks