RE: Cannot start a gnome-3.28.x wayland session with elogind

[John Frankish <john frankish outlook com>]

> > > Any suggestions on how to start a gnome wayland with elogind (mutter-3.28.2 is compiled against > it) 
> > > would be gratefully received.
> > >
> > > I've compiled gnome-3.28.x and can start an X11 session by calling gnome-session from startx.
> > >
> > > I know wayland works because I can start weston like this:
> > >
> > > $ XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 weston-launch
> > >
> > > ..and it reports WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
> > >
> > > However, when I try to start a gnome wayland session like this:
> > >
> > > $ XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 gnome-session
> > >
> > > ..I get:
> > >
> > > (gnome-shell:2746): mutter: Failed to create backend: Unable to open display, DISPLAY not set
> > > gnome-session-binary[2722]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.Shell.desktop' exited with code 1
> > >
> > > I've verified that elogind is running and setting $DISPLAY does not change anything (isn't it for
> > > X11?).
> > Is there a better mailing list to use to ask questions like this?
> >
> > I can't find a mutter mailing list, does one exist?
> >
> > Meanwhile I've managed to get as far as:
> >
> > $ gnome-shell --wayland
> > ..
> > gnome-shell:22377): mutter WARNING: Can't initialize KMS backend: Could not get session ID: No such file 
> > or directory.
> >
> > Is there an equivalent to "weston-launch" for gnome-shell?
> Which version has your gdm?
Gdm-3.28.0 is installed (because gnome-session/gjs will fail without the gdm typelib being present), but not 
used.

I'm also not using any gdm equivalent.

John