[SOLVED]Why not gnome 2.26.3

[SpiroPoulos89]

Hello.

Im new here. I'm used to ubuntu where the next version keeps everything up to date and everything is preconfigured for you.

Finnally after a lot of searching the web I have properly installed gentoo and and gnome and properly started up the gnome interface.

I see in /usr/portage that there are ebuilds for gnome-2.24 and gnome-2.26.

My problem is instead of emerging gnome-2.26 gentoo chose to install 2.24. And when I try updating my system it doesn't mention gnome at all and claims everything is up to date.

For this I can't find any help on the web.

Can someone tell me how to emerge gnome-2.26.3

Thanks

[Hypnos]

GNOME 2.26 is "keyworded" for testing.

Read more in the Gentoo Handbook.
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[SpiroPoulos89]

I don't understand why 2.26 is testing when it is a stable release.

Either way I read the link you sent and that seems to be what I want to do but I don't understand it.

If it told me how to enable partial testing for specific applications then I'm lost.

It would be cool if someone can spell it out for me. What exactly should I do to get gnome-2.26

I know the manual covers everything but it's hard sometimes for noobies to catch on.

Much thanks for any help.

[Hypnos]

GNOME and Gentoo have different criteria for declaring releases stable. GNOME declares releases stable when they can be safely run as binaries by major distributions like Ubuntu. Gentoo declares releases stable when they can be safely built (with various USE flags) and run by its users.

There are two ways to un-keyword GNOME 2.26:

* Make the entire Portage tree un-keyworded, by placing the following in your "/etc/make.conf" :

[Clad in Sky]

Another quick way for testing stuff is to emerge with the following command:

[SpiroPoulos89]

Thank You........That did the trick.

I did the first suggestion

[SpiroPoulos89]

I forgot to reply with my results.

When I first tried upgrading all applications to testing as I mentioned before I ran into a problem with one of gnome's applications not compiling and I couldn't solve the problem.

I know the last thing anyone wants to do is reinstall gentoo but that was my last option.

Once I reinstalled I unmasked all applications as mentioned above and then updated my system then installed gnome and everything went through successfully.

I am now running Gentoo with Gnome-2.26.3.

The only problem I have and cant figure out is network-manager wont run.

So I set up my internet manually with wireless-tools and I have to run a script I made everytime I restart to bring up wlan0 and connect to my router.

Not a perfect solution but I'm ok with it.

[Hypnos]

Congratulations on getting Gnome 2.26.3 working. It was probably unnecessary for you to reinstall the system, but hopefully you learned something from the experience

As for NetworkManager, if you disable Gentoo's network device handling and add NetworkManager to the default runlevel, it should "just work". More at the old Gentoo Wiki page.
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[SpiroPoulos89]

[Hypnos]

Your PC should never overheat, no matter how hight the workload. Assuming adequate ventilation for your computer case, then probably there is some issue with how your particular's machines BIOS interacts with the operating sytem ACPI management.

What machine do you have? You might want to try Googling for your particular setup and see if others have had issues with Linux ACPI.

As for using NetworkManager with my Intel wireless in my Thinkpad, it was all very straightforward. I just made this line in my /etc/conf.d/rc :

[SpiroPoulos89]

Thanks for the reply.

For the overheating problem I ajusted my fan settings and it seems to of helped a lot although I still think it can overheat. And I have seen a post where someone else had the same problem but no solution was given


Also I tried network manager again, With 2.24 i did the same thing as you said and it worked but it still doesn't work with 2.26 even after adding RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.wlan0 !net.eth0" to /etc/conf.d/rc and rc-update add NetworkManager default and rc-update add dbus boot.

I see during boot it sais starting NetworkManager but there is no icon when gnome 2.26 starts up.

Are you using gnome-2.26......If so I cant see why i'm having trouble with it.

[Hypnos]

no, I'm using GNOME 2.24 -- I always use the stable GNOME so I don't have to deal with these kind of issues
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[SpiroPoulos89]

[SpiroPoulos89]

One last reply about my computer overheating.......Turns out my graphics card was the only part overheating.........and my pc was full of dust.......I probrably could of saved it if I used the compressed air thing to clean the dust outa of my pc.

Anyway......i have a new graphics card now and all is working as should.

PS: Don't forget to get all that dust out of your pc.

[Sodki]

[SpiroPoulos89]

[Sodki]

Network Manager is "divided" in two:

net-misc/networkmanager: it's the Network Manager daemon, responsible for making things work;

gnome-extra/nm-applet: it's the icon that sits on GNOME Panel and allows you to manage Network Manager.

So the problem is that you already have Network Manager running, but nm-applet is not showing up. Do you have nm-applet installed?

[SpiroPoulos89]

[Hypnos]

*facepalm*

When NetworkManager isn't running the systray icon doesn't show even when nm-applet is running. I did not occur to me to ask whether nm-applet is installed at all!

Lesson learned!
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[SpiroPoulos89]

[Sodki]

I'm glad I could help.