Leaping from F18 -> F21

[Max Pyziur]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Ben Blankley wrote:

> 
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com>
> > > To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > > Cc:
> > > Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 08:43:32 -0500 (EST)
> > > Subject: Re: Leaping from F18 -> F21
> > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015, jd1008 wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 02/27/2015 03:15 PM, Max Pyziur wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>  Greetings,
> > >>>

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> > > My experience so far is that I still can't use the Gnome Desktop (Classic, Wayland, or otherwise) in F21 on my i686 Laptop (I can use Xfce and MATE); I keep trying to find the correct  yum group to install; I also keep adding packages, but I
> still haven't found the correct libraries and/or packages so a typical Gnome Desktop appears correctly.
> > >
> > > So, I would be grateful for any continuing guidance in this regard.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Max Pyziur
> > > pyz at brama.com
> > >
> 
> From this post:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=302035
> 
> there may be a hidden yum group called "GNOME".
> 
> Try running 'yum grouplist hidden', and see what groups return? GNOME might be listed there.
> 
> Ben Blankley
> President - WCT, Board Member - WSC

Thank you. I've done this, and have found various hidden groups, and have 
tried doing yum groupinstall <groupname>

Either a few packages get added, or mostly, the response is that all group 
packages have been installed.

I've begun to look through /var/log/messages for the clue as to why none 
of the GNOME desktops are properly loading/functioning. The list is very 
long.

It begins in the following way:
Mar  2 11:06:20 MercToo systemd-logind: New session 2 of user pyz.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo org.a11y.Bus: 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.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo org.a11y.atspi.Registry: 
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.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo gdm: Child process 1012 was already dead.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo gdm: Unable to kill session worker process
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo org.gtk.vfs.Daemon: A connection to the bus can't 
be made
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo org.gtk.vfs.Daemon: 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.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo gnome-session: ** (gnome-settings-daemon:1130): 
WARNING **: Name taken or bus went away - shutting down
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo gnome-session: 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.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo ca.desrt.dconf: 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.
Mar  2 11:06:21 MercToo gnome-session: 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.


Much thanks again,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com