Gnome 3 on LFS-7.0

Johnburrell · 11-21-2011, 09:52 AM

I've installed Gnome 3 (version 3.2) on LFS-7.0 and everything seemed to compile and install okay. However, I have a major piece of missing functionality - when I click the files icon or the terminal icon, I get the timer for about 10 seconds and then nothing.

I assume that during those 10 seconds there are error messages being sent to stdout or /dev/null or somewhere.

My question is - how can I intercept those messages to see the errors? Does Gnome keep the error messages in a log file? I've looked around (in /var/log for e.g.) but as yet have found nothing obvious.

Thanks for any help.

jb.

Bertical · 11-22-2011, 10:13 AM

Maybe you could use a wrapper script. Something like :

Code:

mv /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/old.gnome-terminal

cat > /usr/bin/gnome-terminal << EOF
#!/bin/bash

exec old.gnome-terminal | tee /tmp/terminal.log

EOF

chmod +x /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

Then click the icon. Shut down X and cat the log in /tmp/terminal.log.

Don't forget

Code:

mv /usr/bin/old.gnome-terminal /usr/bin/gnome-terminal

Johnburrell · 11-22-2011, 11:18 AM

Thanks for the suggestion.

I needed:

exec old.gnome-terminal 2>&1 | tee /tmp/terminal.log

to get the error message into the log file.

Here is the result:

ERROR:terminal-app.c:1449:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app->default_profile_id != NULL)

which I'm afraid doesn't help me very much, as I don't program in C and I have no idea what
terminal-app.c is doing.

jb.

Bertical · 11-22-2011, 03:54 PM

I'm out of my depth here. Maybe it is looking for a profile in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default.