[Mageia-dev] GNOME3 ?

[Dexter Morgan]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 09:27 AM, Dexter Morgan wrote:
>>
>> Conflicts should be fixed now.
>>
>
> In order to separate the upgrade issues, I just did a fresh Cauldron GNOME
> install in a VBox VM, and tried to log in.
>
> I get the flat (not striped) blue background, probably because your
> dependency fix hasn't come through yet, and I see the "Activity     Date
> Username" flash briefly at the top of the screen and then disappear.  If you
> leave it that way, every 5 or 10 seconds the "Oops, something went wrong"
> screen flashes and disappears.
>
> If I try to install gnome-themes-standard, I get conflicts with
> gnome-themes-2.32, which has been pulled in by epiphany-2.32.  Removing
> gnome-themes-2.32 (along with epiphany) allows gnome-themes-standard to
> install cleanly, at which point I get exactly the same behavior but with a
> blue striped background.

do you have urpmi log this time ?

> The only error I can find is in /var/log/messages, and says "gnome-session:
> Warning - application gnome-shell.desktop failed to register before
> timeout".  There is no mention in dmesg of libnsl or gnome.

do you have the logs from ~/.xsession-errors  when the session fails please ?

> In short, the libnsl issue seems to be upgrade-related, but everything else
> is just broken out-of-the-box.
>
> If you try to reproduce this, you have to use 128K video memory and enable
> 3D acceleration in VBox, otherwise you get "fallback" mode, which appears to
> work fine.
>
>