RE: gnome-3.16.x without systemd

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: gnome-shell-list [mailto:gnome-shell-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf
Of John Frankish
Sent: Friday, 15 May, 2015 16:14
To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Subject: gnome-3.16.x without systemd

> I was going to abandon the attempt to get gnome-3.16.x working on a
non-systemd machine, but then saw this
(https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/ConsoleKit), which seems to indicate that
things should work:
>
I tried again with debugging enabled in consolekit, gnome-session and
polkit,  but there's still nothing to indicate what the problem might be:

http://pastebin.com/Rx17NpLk

As neither gnome-session nor gnome-shell fail, I cannot debug with gdb -
after getting the gnome-session "oh no something's wrong" screen and
exiting, gnome-shell still works (I can run gnome-control-center and connect
to wifi for example), but of course the various gnome-session gnome desktop
elements are all missing.

Could somebody help me to modify the gnome-session/gnome-shell source for
debugging purposes to either:

1. Short circuit the gnome-shell registration with gnome-session to force it
to register without checking whatever it checks first.
Or
2. Print useful messages at each stage of the registration process so I can
see where it fails.

Thanks
John