Gnome shell starts in fallback mode after update

winash · 2012-04-13 05:28:51

Gnome shell goes to fallback mode after todays upgrade - I suspeced console kit and downgraded it but to no avail

I think its a d-bus issue , because I can run gnome-shell --replace from my user account and the shell loads up

but on running from root I get this error

** (gnome-shell:1914): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (gnome-shell:1914): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Segmentation fault

I even tried downgrading udev but that does not help.

Anyone else face the same problem

Last edited by winash (2012-04-13 05:29:24)

mjb · 2012-04-13 06:03:56

Same here!

winash · 2012-04-13 06:06:40

I dont know if this is related but running dbus-monitor as root does not work

Failed to open connection to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Is this related ?

winash · 2012-04-13 06:35:51

Fixed after latest consolekit update

viking60 · 2012-04-13 10:12:48

What update was that?
I have the same problem it happened both in the LTS kernel and in the default kernel (That I cannot use due to the ath9 wpa_supplicant wifi problem).
I can enter the shell with gnome-shell --replace but it flickers so much that it is almost useles.
I have an Acer aspire 5250 Amd Radeon.

Edit:
I just realized I have consolekit 0.4.6-1, so I will probably only have to wait for consolekit 0.4.6-2 to hit the repos

Last edited by viking60 (2012-04-13 10:39:31)

verduler · 2012-04-13 20:24:08

Same here. I have installed consolekit 0.4.6-2. Any ideas?

rfischer1984 · 2012-04-15 04:37:09

Yeah im having the same problem gnome-shell --replace works for me as well...but there has to be another solution here.. and I also have the latest consolekit.

Last edited by rfischer1984 (2012-04-15 04:51:17)

rfischer1984 · 2012-04-15 04:55:36

Ok got mine to work. What i did was remove console kit with pacman -Rdd consolekit then i just installed it again. with pacman -S consolekit seems to work now...could have been a coincidence, not sure but it worked.lol

insane_alien · 2012-04-15 10:48:01

rfischer1984 wrote:

Ok got mine to work. What i did was remove console kit with pacman -Rdd consolekit then i just installed it again. with pacman -S consolekit seems to work now...could have been a coincidence, not sure but it worked.lol

I can confirm that this worked for me while gnome-shell --replace only produced a flickering mess that crashed.

it did require a restart, not just killing gnome and restarting it though.

now if only i hadn't been playing oolite when it happened.

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#1 2012-04-13 05:28:51

Gnome shell starts in fallback mode after update

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