RE: gnome-session-3.14.0 will not start

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> From: gnome-shell-list [mailto:gnome-shell-list-bounces gnome org] On
Behalf Of John Frankish
> Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2014 17:37
> To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> Subject: gnome-session-3.14.0 will not start
>
> Hi,
>
> I compiled gnome-3.10.x from scratch and have used it for a year or so
without (too many) problems.
> I recently recompiled the various packages to gnome-3.14.x, but I cannot
get gnome-session to start:
> gnome-session[12651]: WARNING: Could not connect to ConsoleKit: Could not
get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit': no such name
> gnome-session[12651]: WARNING: Unable to find required component
'gnome-settings-daemon'
> (gnome-session-failed:12701): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-session-failed: Fatal
IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
> g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying
GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
> gnome-settings-daemon-3.14.2 is present, so I'm not sure why gnome-session
cannot find it, but the X server error is more of a concern.
> Is this perhaps due to the xf86-video-intel-2.99.916 driver with sna
acceleration?
> I tried with intel uxa acceleration, but gnome-session still would not
start
> - any troubleshooting hints would be much appreciated.

I omitted to mention that gnome-shell will start if I start
gnome-settings-daemon manually and set the cursor active false - it's
gnome-session that will not start