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epidings

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

After a system update my GNOME classic desktop freezes after login: It shows a mouse pointer but nothing more.

If I switch to GNOME non-classic it works.

The system update comprised this packages, but I don't know which is the critical one:

[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] transaction started
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded apache (2.4.17-4 -> 2.4.17-5)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded cinnamon-translations (2.8.2-1 -> 2.8.3-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded curl (7.45.0-1 -> 7.46.0-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] installed packagekit (1.0.11-2)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded libcroco (0.6.9-1 -> 0.6.10-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded deja-dup (34.0-1 -> 34.1-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded glibmm (2.46.2-2 -> 2.46.3-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded libgdata (0.17.3-1 -> 0.17.4-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded nemo (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded openresolv (3.7.1-1 -> 3.7.2-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded python-setuptools (1:18.8-1 -> 1:18.8.1-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] upgraded python2-setuptools (1:18.8-1 -> 1:18.8.1-1)
[2015-12-14 21:03] [ALPM] transaction completed

Latest update before that was yesterday, so the system should be up-to-date.

It works again if I remove this GNOME extension (which isn't touched by the updates):

/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/window-list@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/

I'm a bit of a newbie. So I don't know how to proceed or where to report the issue.
Thank you for any help!

Last edited by epidings (2015-12-18 15:17:27)

CrazyTux

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Registered: 2013-08-23

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

That's very similar to my cinnamon problem. Do you think you could post you .xsession-errors.old?

epidings

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

That's very similar to my cinnamon problem. Do you think you could post you .xsession-errors.old?

Sorry, I have no .xsession-errors
And I don't know where to look elsewhere for error messages.
In journalctl I couldn't find anything that seems to be of relevance

CrazyTux

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Registered: 2013-08-23

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

Maybe try downgrading libcroco and the cinnamon updates? That just "fixed" the problem for me.

epidings

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

Maybe try downgrading libcroco and the cinnamon updates? That just "fixed" the problem for me.

Indeed, downgrading libcroco from 0.6.10-1 to 0.6.9-1 solves the issue.

So the problem seems to be an incompatibility between the new libcroco and the GNOME extension window-list.

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206197

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marove

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Registered: 2015-12-17

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

I had the same problem. Downgrading also hepled for me. Thank you very much for your help.

surefire

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Registered: 2015-12-16

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

update libcroco 0.6.11 fixed

epidings

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Registered: 2014-05-02

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] GNOME classic broken after system update

Working. Thank you!