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#1 2014-05-01 15:15:32

merilius
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Registered: 2012-06-15
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[SOLVED] Gnome crashes at startup

I have been using MATE for a while, but wanted to check out if the new (3.12) gnome became usable.
Sadly, just after login gnome crashes: "something went wrong" message and a sad "face" is displayed. But absolutely no debug information is shown.
I have looked into ~/.xsession-errors but it is empty.
There is also nothing interesting in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

I have removed gnome-shell-extensions and user extensions, and then even created a "fresh" user.  But none of these helped.

journalctl tells me:

May 01 15:31:39 laptog dbus[186]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
May 01 15:31:39 laptog dbus[186]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service': Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
May 01 15:31:39 laptog pulseaudio[546]: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

May 01 15:31:40 laptog gnome-session[477]: (gnome-settings-daemon:537): color-plugin-WARNING **: Corrupted tag 'meta' & Bad dictionary Name/Value
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: (gnome-shell:596): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Error: Requiring NMGtk, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: @resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/status/network.js:10
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: AggregateMenu<._init@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/panel.js:816
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: _Base.prototype._construct@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:110
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Class.prototype._construct/newClass@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:204
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Panel<._ensureIndicator@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/panel.js:1111
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Panel<._updateBox@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/panel.js:1122
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Panel<._updatePanel@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/panel.js:1074
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Panel<._init@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/panel.js:918
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:169
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: _Base.prototype._construct@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:110
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Class.prototype._construct/newClass@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:204
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: _initializeUI@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:168
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: start@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/main.js:117
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: @<main>:1
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: JS_EvaluateScript() failed
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: gnome-session[477]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
May 01 15:31:42 laptog gnome-session[477]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1

May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: gnome-session[477]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' exited with code 1
May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: gnome-session[477]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: Unrecoverable failure in required component gnome-shell.desktop
May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: gnome-session[477]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed
May 01 15:31:45 laptog gnome-session[477]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_environ_setenv: assertion 'value != NULL' failed

I guess it is not dbus or bluez issue. Seems more like gtk2/gtk3 issue (I have both installed), so I tried to run gdm instead of lxdm (just in case lxdm loads gtk2), but gdm shows just a black screen.

#### UPDATE:
The Error: Requiring NMGtk, version none: Requiring namespace 'Gtk' version '2.0', but '3.0' is already loaded
was from NetworkManager (I just guessed what NMGtk could mean)
I had NetworkManager installed and NetworkManager-applet. But the latter was a gtk2 version (from AUR) and Gnome apparently tried to execute it instead of just ignoring it.

Last edited by merilius (2014-05-01 15:58:43)

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