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korpenkraxar

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 123

Does anyone have Gnome Shell up and running? If so, how did you do it?

Hi all!

I've tried installing Gnome Shell via gnome-shell and gnome-shell-git in AUR and the guide over here: http://zazaq.com/2010/04/27/gnome-scree … 0-on-arch/ to no avail. The latter method actually compiles after a few minor tweaks, but after running:

gnome-shell/install/bin/gnome-shell --replace

I am stuck with errors like this:

    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'Error("Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found")@:0
("Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/home/korpenkraxar/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:3
'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = 'Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found'
    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = 'Error("Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found")@:0
("Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/home/korpenkraxar/gnome-shell/install/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:3
'
    JS ERROR: !!!     message = 'Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found'
Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring GLib, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GLib' (any version) not found

Followed by:

Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

Looking around on the interwebs, the latter error suggests removing xulrunner, which I have done. This actually allows me to start gnome-shell, but the only thing that happens is that mutter kicks in and the window decoration changes slightly but I do not get the actual shell. Having removed xulrunner, I get this error:

(mutter:1063): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/home/korpenkraxar/gnome-shell/install/lib64/mutter/plugins/libgnome-shell.so (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]

And now I am stuck. Any ideas or pointers anyone?

Last edited by korpenkraxar (2010-11-11 08:57:47)

Zeqadious

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 55

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Re: Does anyone have Gnome Shell up and running? If so, how did you do it?

It looks like your missing the gobject-introspection glib2 typelib file.  Not sure if glib2 has builtin rules during compilation to generate that file or if its somewhere in gir-repository.  Most likely its the first option.  You will likely need to build glib2 with gobject-introspection enabled to generate that file.

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darkbeanies

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Registered: 2009-01-14

Posts: 142

Re: Does anyone have Gnome Shell up and running? If so, how did you do it?

I got it running a while back.  (Like, a couple of months ago.  It's now gone, for multiple reasons).  If memory serves me correctly, I just enabled the gnome-unstable repository and downloaded and it worked (it didn't compile properly from AUR for me).  Well, I say "worked".  It was very slow.

Maybe add

[gnome-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

to pacman.conf if you want to give it a go.

On the subject of gnome shell, has anyone got it to run smoothly?  I have a 1Gb nvidia card, 4Gb ram and dual core 3Ghz cpu and it was totally unusable when I tried it.