Gnome 2.14

tsuehpsyde · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

Worked here as well, just had to add

>=sys-apps/hal-0.5.7

to /etc/portage/package.unmask aside from what was in the mask list for gnome 2.14, and also had to re-emerge gnome-doc-utils and gnome-panel. I've been using KDE by default, and I'd have to say gnome loads really fast. Although, my desktop icons don't seem to have...icons. :p I'm sure I'll figure it out.

Also, I forgot, one of the packages broke on me, so I had to emerge dbus, as the configure script couldn't find it on my system and it wasn't included in the dependencies for gnome.

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protex · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 88

Hum · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:53 am Post subject:

StaraDama · Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 253

after compiling new gnome i get this error

dot · Guru Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 335 Location: Germany

For me, gnome-2.14 is very disapointing.
First i had the trouble with evdev, i could fix this with the patch and that was fine, but than there appered more and more problems. The first is that gnome can not start the clock-applet (i dont know why, but this sucks). The second problem arises when i try to logout from gnome. Sometimes it works, sometimes nothing happens and sometimes the panel at the top disapears, but nothing else happens. I have to exit gnome with alt+ctrl+backspace keys. But even if i manage it to normaly quit gnome, when i start it a second time, gnome-panal complains about it beeing running, and just says "i will exit now". Great!
That means restarting gnome does not work. And of course, my icons: It doesnt matter what i do, after restarting they are all arranged at the left side of the screen, sometimes there are two or more icons on top of each other.

Thanks for the tipp to first emerge glib gtk+ and gconf.
I am downgrading right now to 2.12

Maybe this is of interest:
I am using gcc 4.1 and xorg 7
Maybe gnome is not yet ready for gcc 4.1 and xorg 7

Kind regards

Flo

thasheep · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

I am using gcc 4.1 and xorg 7.0 and gnome 2.14 is working perfectly
Just wondering, did everybody else KEEP gtk-engines-2.7 masked as per the comments in package.mask??

lex82 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 242 Location: Italy

I compiled Yealp against Firefox 1.5.0.1-r3 and it compiled succesfully!

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olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Running gnome-2.14 with beagle and the gnome-power-manager on AMD64 now all seems stable expect for a few minor things.

1. If I log out of gnome, gnome hangs for 10 seconds, and gnome-panel doesn't quit, because if I try to login as another user it tells me "Gnome detected another panel already running and will now exit"
2 Pessulus (downloaded and compiled manually from the gnome website) won't run and exits. The only error it gives me is segmentation fault.
3 Abayon (downloaded and compiled manually from the gnome website) won't run and exits. The error it gives me is no default user found aborting....
4 gnome-power-manager keeps popping up every few minutes that my battery is fully charged now, the problem is it actually already was, and wasn't charging which is basically very annoying (anyone knows howto disable this pop-up?).

A solution for the ones that are having problems with the clock or other things on the gnome panel not willing to start is to re-compile gnome-panel-2.14.0 without eds support (at least that solved it for me)

Anyone any ideas on howto fix these problems?

Other specs:
gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r7
ati-drivers-8.23.7
xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6

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dot · Guru Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 335 Location: Germany

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jesse_kahtava · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:40 am Post subject:

I've been seeing plenty of problems with applets and other gnome components on this forum. I, too, have had similar issues. It has often been the case for me that when I upgrade gnome, since it isn't a fresh install, portage compiles many of the new components against old ones. From what I know, there are two solutions:
1) run emerge in empty tree mode: emerge -e gnome (or something along those lines) OR
2) emerge all the gnome packages AGAIN (or at least the ones that are causing problems)!

The problem with the first way is that it will recompile EVERYTHING gnome depends on (including x.org). I really don't recommend this way. It will take an extremely long time. The second way is faster.

Here is an emerge command to reinstall almost every package. I took all the masked atoms from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask and made them into an emerge command (and also added a couple more such as gstreamer plugins to make the volume control applet work):

signal11 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 46

i keep getting this build error for deskbar applet

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

Try re-compiling the gnome-applet package before emering the gnome deskbar applet.

kirillrdy · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:12 am Post subject:

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kirillrdy · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:19 am Post subject:

with yelp. i did the cheap ( but effectvie ) way by deleting stupid lines from /config file.
As long as it works

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signal11 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 46

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dot · Guru Joined: 05 May 2003 Posts: 335 Location: Germany

Firefox 1.5.0.1-r3 fixed the yelp problem for me

edit:
it dit not

edit 2:
but the cheap trick (delete the lines from the configure file) did work

signal11 · n00b Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 46