On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John Balcaen <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/7/28 Colin Guthrie <[email protected]>: >> 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
