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nailxx

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Registered: 2012-09-12

Posts: 3

Oh no! Something has gone wrong... after update

Hi all!

Yesterday I updated my Arch with `pacman -Syu`. After reboot all gone fine until GDM load. From now on I get background briefly displayed and after 1 second or so I get a screen with:

Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occured and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator.
...and a picture of a monitor with sad emotion

Not too informative.

I've looked syslog, messages, dmesg, gdm logs and found nothing special in them. Trying to `rc.d stop gdm` spawns it again with same symphtoms.

I have ThinkPad E420 (Intel graphics) if it matters.

Where should I look to narrow down the problem? Thanks in advance.

nailxx

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Registered: 2012-09-12

Posts: 3

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong... after update

Omg, got it!

I've fount something like:

    JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Argument 'text' (type utf8) may not be null
    JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
    JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"("Argument 'text' (type utf8) may not be null")@gjs_throw:0
()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dateMenu.js:212

in /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log and after few tries and errors I deduced the problem to a line in /etc/locale.conf

export LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"

I commented it out and voi-la, gnome started as usual. Crazy, crazy day…

Now the question is still open. Have anybody ideas how could ever such thing stop GDM and Gnome from starting?! How could I return back my local date/time format?

WorMzy

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Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong... after update

This is a shot in the dark, but are you sure you've uncommented the entry for ru_RU.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and re-run locale-gen?

Last edited by WorMzy (2012-09-12 16:21:32)

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nailxx

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Registered: 2012-09-12

Posts: 3

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong... after update

Sure. Futhermore I have:

export LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"

In locale.conf and it works as expected. The problem is in LC_TIME.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong... after update

Sounds like an upstream bug to me, post in the related bug tracker (probably for gnome-shell).

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