Quoting Michael Hill <[email protected]>:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Michael Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
After a massive update today, gnome-shell thinks it's not running and
blocks my desktop with a crash message that only gives me the option
of logging out. I can get to the overview using the keyboard and
launch things using the mouse, but back on the desktop nothing can be
reached past the error message. According to /var/log/messages, dbus
may not be running.
I would boot my other installed Linux on this machine, but I'm at the
Brno docs hackfest and my working directory is in openSUSE. I know I
should have been happy with yesterday's GNOME 3.3, but we're trying to
make sure we document the latest versions.
I consulted one of the GTK+ guys at the hackfest and he showed me that
Alt+F4 will dispatch the offending error message by which time the
system realizes Shell is running and doesn't time out.
We (gnome hackers, mostly vuntz) just figured what the problem was
here and the fix is being prepared / checked into GNOME:Factory.
The 'source' of the problem was the xorg-x11 packaging change, which
lead to a 'mutter' package being built without libSM support... which
in turn gave gnome-shell no chance to register properly, giving the 30
second timeout and gnome-session believed the shell did not come up...
Identified, fixed, preparing to release to the wild.
Dominique
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