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davex_

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Registered: 2013-04-19

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Gnome 3 won't start

"Oh no!  Something has gone wrong"

In dmesg, I see:

"[74.637271] gnome-settings-[1499]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fb69494e759 sp 00007fff367e8d00 error 4 in libupower-glib.so.3.0.0[7fb69493e000+22000]"
...
"166.230476] gnome-shell-[1654]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fc08f33c709 sp 00007fffb8e399d0 error 4 in libupower-glib.so.3.0.0[7fc08f32c000+22000]"

journalctl -b doesn't seem to report anything interesting.

Ran a pacman -Syu prior to this last reboot, and still same thing.

Last edited by davex_ (2014-12-03 01:33:31)

davex_

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Registered: 2013-04-19

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Re: Gnome 3 won't start

Also KDE fails to start, complaining about no available "power management backend" or some such.

i3 does seem to work -- maybe that's the best option; stop using bloated, apparently fragile desktop environments.

Last edited by davex_ (2014-12-03 02:04:08)

kabbalah

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Re: Gnome 3 won't start

If you install gdm: systemctl disable.gdm.service and then install lxdm and turn it on.

Luck

davex_

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Registered: 2013-04-19

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Re: Gnome 3 won't start

To clarify, my original report was during boot to GDM.  I subsequently disabled gdm, and my failed attempt to run KDE was via running startx.  Launching i3 this way worked fine.

Last edited by davex_ (2014-12-04 02:56:06)