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korpenkraxar

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Registered: 2006-04-02

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[SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

Hi all!

I just installed Gnome 3.2 from [testing] on a 64-bit Thinkpad laptop with an ATI graphics card. I use the opensource xf86-video-ati driver.

Unfortunately, I am unable to start gdm, instead arriving at the dreaded "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." screen where can only move the mouse and have to resort to a console to stop gdm. I get the same thing if use KDM instead and tried to start Gnome that way.

A similar problem was reported here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=127291

As well as here: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22024.html

None of the suggestions help in my case.

To me it seems like gnome-shell is borked and not gdm since the crash happens also if I try to login using KDM (which worked just fine back in 3.0).

Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: I have removed all gnome-shell-extension* packages.

Last edited by korpenkraxar (2011-09-30 20:27:22)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

try to paste /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log and :0-slave.log right after the oh snap from gdm or ~/.xsession-errors from your regular session

Last edited by wonder (2011-09-29 21:31:34)

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korpenkraxar

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

The :0-slave.log files are empty but the :0-greeter.log file contains the same error message that was reported here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 64#p994164 about "Cogl". cogl-1.8.0-1 is installed from [testing] and I have not enabled the [gnome-unstable] repo. Is the latter repo needed?

korpenkraxar

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

OK, an extra pacman -Syuf pulled in packages like at-spi2-core, clutter-gst and gnome-games. One of these fixed the problems I had. Now loggin in works just fine!

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

why the hell did you do -f ?

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korpenkraxar

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3.2: Unable to login and start the desktop

Haha lol well were there is a nice typo for you in action. I didn't actually notice it before you pointed it out and thought I did a normal -Syu. Now the question is whether I mistyped things here or on the command-line...