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mrb101

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 26

[Solved] Gnome Shell with Xorg doesnt start.

Hey,
I have a Dell laptop with discrete Nividia graphics and i installed Bumblebee and it was working fine under xorg session
the last week i was using gnome-shell under wayland and today i tried to run optirun didn't work. so i thought its cause of wayland and i switched to xorg but when i login using it just hangs and doesn't show the mouse
the output of the boot using journalctl is http://pastebin.com/QHtLuUSP
i remember that i installed a shell extension that caused me a bit of trouble but i removed it. called Feron extensions.gnome.org/extension/841/freon/
What could be the problem ?

Last edited by mrb101 (2016-11-15 05:48:40)

Inixi

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Registered: 2016-10-15

Posts: 54

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell with Xorg doesnt start.

For me it looks like most things are working ok, anyway try moving gnome-shell settings from your user home directory somewhere else and then login to Xorg.

mv ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/ ~/somewhere/else

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mrb101

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell with Xorg doesnt start.

it didn't work.. only difference now i can see the mouse pointer when i log in. before it used to disappear.
Maybe i should mention that if i login as root it works just fine. and I3wm session works as well

Knasher

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Registered: 2013-10-09

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell with Xorg doesnt start.

Might be the mutter bug:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1668856

Check to see if you have the segfault in libgtk in dmesg, and if so downgrade your version of mutter.

mrb101

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Registered: 2012-06-30

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved] Gnome Shell with Xorg doesnt start.

Thanks a lot
downgrading Mutter to mutter-3.22.1+41+ge8fc090-1-x86_64 worked

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mutter-3.22.1+41+ge8fc090-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz