Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues starting GNOME Flashback 3.16 jhbuild sessions

[Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>]

Hi, see inline responses,

On 11/07/14 08:56, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. can you try changing last line in script files to this?
> exec ${GNOME}/bin/gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback-[compiz/metacity]
>
> 2. also I have this before export:
> unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

I made both changes. I still have the grey screen for metacity and the fail
whale for compiz. And I do not see any logging.

> Grey screen probably means that required components are not started. What
> DM you use for testing?

I am using gdm from Fedora 21.

When I start a metacity session as the user "batmin", these are the
processes I see running. It appears that not all the components
specified in
${GNOME}/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-flashback-metacity.session
are running.

mike fedora-21:~ :( [8] $ ps -ef | grep -i 'gnome\|metacity'
batmin    1632     1  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --daemonize --login
batmin    1667  1606  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 /home/batmin/jhbuild/install/bin/gnome-session 
--session=gnome-flashback-metacity
batmin    1692  1667  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /bin/sh -c exec -l /bin/bash -c 
"/usr/local/bin/gnome-jhbuild-session-flashback-metacity"
batmin    1709     1  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch --exit-with-session 
/home/batmin/jhbuild/install/bin/gnome-session --session=gnome-flashback-metacity
batmin    1722     1  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 /home/batmin/jhbuild/install/libexec/at-spi2-registryd 
--use-gnome-session
batmin    1733  1667  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 /home/batmin/jhbuild/install/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon
batmin    1756  1667  0 09:35 ?        00:00:00 metacity
mike      1962  1533  0 09:38 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i gnome\|metacity

-Mike

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, after successfully building GNOME Flashback's 3.16 branch with
> > jhbuild on Fedora 21 64-bit, I am now able to launch a GNOME jhbuild
> > session. However, I am unable to launch a GNOME Flashback Compiz
> > jhbuild sesion or a GNOME Flashback Metacity jhbuild session.
> >
> > A Metacity session is just a grey screen.
> > A Compiz session is the fail whale.
> >
> > I've attached my .desktop files from /usr/share/xsessions/ and my
> > scripts from /usr/local/bin/ (no file extensions.) However, despite
> > passing --debug to gnome-session, I do not see the debug output
> > anywhere. Is there a way for me to collect it?
> >
> > -Mike
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