[Mageia-dev] Gnome3 issues gnome-shell not loading.

Thu Jul 28 13:45:43 CEST 2011

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John Balcaen <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
+> 2011/7/28 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
+>> Hi,
+> Hello,
+>
+>> Since updates about 2 days ago, I've not been able to log in to gnome 3.
+>> gnome-shell does not start.
+> It's related to the new metacity 2.34.0 (i did not pushed it initially
+> because it was
+> not working correctly localy when i tested it)
+
+worked for me   for weeks
+
+>
+>> I only noticed last night and did further updates which brought in new
+>> Mesa and a lot of KDE stuff.
+>>
+>> More updates today, but still no joy.
+>>
+>> The GDM login window takes a long time to appear (the GDM background
+>> appears quickly), and after entering my password, my user desktop
+>> appears but no actual shell.
+>>
+>> Anyone else see this?
+>>
+>> I couldn't see anything immediately useful in .xsession errors but will
+>> check again another time (likely not until tomorrow morning tho')
+> In fact it's just another problem with « failed to register » functionnality.
+> The « something goes wrong » windows before is certainly related to that too :
+> gnome-shell was already failing to register itself, & now the same is
+> happening with metacity.
+>
+> If i'm not wrong guillomovitch opened a bug report regarding this.
+
+yes see :
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2290
+