On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote: > > > Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't > > load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous" > > Gnome Shell. > > Well something went wrong...I have tried re-logging in again many times, > > as the error screen suggests..I have re-booted, renamed .gnome2 to > > .gnome2.bak, even moved .gconf out of the way...but nothing has worked > > so far. My old Gnome desktop was heavily customized, with wbar as an > > application launcher and a minimal gnome panel...but I don't know > > whether this had anything to do with the problem. My system does not > > support 3d acceleration...and I noticed that gnome-session says that is > > one of the requirements for gnome-shell. Is this the problem...does > > anybody have ideas? > > I dunno what could have happened (is gnome-shell already available in > sid? oh, my, here it comes...) but if 3D acceleration is not available, > gnome should enter into a "fallback" mode (kinda gnome2 desktop) and do > not use/load gnome-shell at all. > > What is the error you are getting? Any pop-up message, anything under the > usual files (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log), can you at least > login to the system from a tty? The more information you provide, the > better :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > I had the same problem when I installed gnome 3 from experimental. If you can log in with a new user, then you should try moving some config files from ~/.gnome (or ~/.gnome2) directories. I know it's not an elegant solution, but it worked for me :) Cheers! -- David
