Public bug reported:
Gnome-shell will not start because dateMenu.JS can not handle
localization that is not UTF-8.
Snip from ~/.cache/gdm/session.log
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Error: Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in
conversion input
fileName = '"/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dateMenu.js"''
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In syslog you will see errors like gnome-shell.desktop respawning to quickly
and whale is dead message.
Reason is I choose Swedish under the installation of Ubuntu Gnome 13.04. Then
locale file becomes by default
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE"
LC_TIME="sv_SE"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE"
LC_NAME="sv_SE"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE"
This file will make dateMenu.JS to fail and GDM/gnome-shell will not start.
I have not found the exact problem but I did "sudo apt-get install
language-pack-sv" and then changed all "sv_SE" to "sv_SE.UTF-8"
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 7 10:05:09 2013
DisplayManager: gdm
GsettingsChanges:
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64
(20130402.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring
** Attachment added: "~/.cache/gdm/session.log"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1165681/+attachment/3627837/+files/session.log
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GDM/gnome-shell fails to start
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