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frevo
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 Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:33 pm Post subject: not able to boot into KDE Plasma |
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First things first, I'm a newbie in Gentoo.
Just a normal Fedora KDE user trying to learn new stuff with an "old" notebook that I've just formatted.
I'm using a Dell 14 7000 Inspiron (P74G model).
Intel i7 7th gen, with no discrete video cards in it.
I followed the Gentoo handbook, more specific its amd64 type.
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1) system boots into a tty rather than Plasma.
2)when I try to execute "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11]" as root, the is an error saying "Couldn´t exec startplasma-x11: no such file or directory"
3)when I try to execute the same command above as a normal user, the is an error saying cannot open log file, because there isn't a log file.
I followed the gentoo handbook tutorial ipsis litteris, however I could not boot into the KDE desktop environmnet... Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but I really don't know what.
Again I'm a newbie in Gentoo, so there might be a step that I did not followed properly for my machine, kernel, .... I really don't know.
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pietinger
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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frevo,
Welcome to Gentoo Forums! 
Do you have systemd or OpenRC as init system?
These are the steps to install KDE/Plasma for an OpenRC system:
| Code: | # emerge -vD xorg-server
# Only if you dont have an english keyboard (in this example a german keyboard is used):
# cd /etc/X11
# mkdir xorg.conf.d
# cd xorg.conf.d
# cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf .
# nano -w 40-libinput.conf
=> add to keyboard section: Option "xkb_layout" "de"
# emerge -vD plasma-meta kdecore-meta
# both commands are used for an OpenRC system and must be exchanged with systemd commands when using systemd:
# rc-update add elogind boot
# rc-update add display-manager default
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/display-manager
=> DISPLAYMANAGER="sddm" |
Do you had any errors when you did one of these commands?
Maybe provide also the output of "emerge --info".
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Hu
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Some of those pictures look strange. It looks like the user's shell is being treated as a home directory, which does not make sense. What is the output of declare -p HOME USER SHELL; grep $USER /etc/passwd as run by the unprivileged user? |
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frevo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2024 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| pietinger wrote: | frevo,
Welcome to Gentoo Forums!
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Thanks! I'm looking for improving my Linux knowledge via the Gentoo ecosystem  Hope someday I can contribute as well.
| pietinger wrote: |
Do you have systemd or OpenRC as init system?
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Sytemd, I've installed systemd+desktop profile stage3.
About this, following the tutorial, via a LiveGUI USB Image of Gentoo, the some parts where there are divergences in OpenRC and Systemd I could not properly run, because there was some errors like: System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate". Was it suppose to give this errors, and I was suppose to run the OpenRC counterparts despite my stage3 files being for systemd? Or it should not gave theses errors?
| pietinger wrote: |
Do you had any errors when you did one of these commands?
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I've preferred to not run those commands. If i run them on the LiveGUIUSB in chroot, will they work?
| pietinger wrote: |
Maybe provide also the output of "emerge --info".
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frevo
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | Some of those pictures look strange. It looks like the user's shell is being treated as a home directory, which does not make sense. What is the output of declare -p HOME USER SHELL; grep $USER /etc/passwd as run by the unprivileged user? |
https://ibb.co/g3mCWfQ |
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bstaletic
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:40 am Post subject: |
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| frevo wrote: | | Hu wrote: | | Some of those pictures look strange. It looks like the user's shell is being treated as a home directory, which does not make sense. What is the output of declare -p HOME USER SHELL; grep $USER /etc/passwd as run by the unprivileged user? |
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Yeah, that's horribly wrong. While the SHELL and USER are fine, the HOME is invalid.
Use `vipw` to change /bin/bash/pizarro to /home/pizarro. |
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