Gnome 3.2 from [testing] - Problem

Aventinus · 2011-09-29 09:59:42

Hello guys, as I am impatient I made a pacman -syyu with [testing] enabled to check Gnome 3.2. Unfortunately after the reboot I cannot login to Gnome. As a matter of fact, Gnome does not load at all. Instead I'm looking at the (tty1). Any ideas how to fix the problem? I hope I'll not be forced to reinstall Arch....

Thanks in advance.

wonder · 2011-09-29 10:22:08

you have nvidia?

Bhran · 2011-09-29 11:41:47

How are you launching Gnome? by using GDM daemon or xinitrc?
Provide us more info

Aventinus · 2011-09-29 13:54:57

I use the open source drivers for ATI and I launch Gnome by using GDM Daemon.

stargeizer · 2011-09-29 14:43:58

What worked for me is to delete my old configuration (folders .config , .gconf, and .gnome2) and restart the system

Yeah, you lose your customizations, but at least worked. (i'm on an ATI Radeon 9800 and Gnome 3.2 right now, fallback mode since i can't stand the smartphone mode)

syre · 2011-09-29 15:38:45

i've got nvidia and the xserver isnt launching, what's up? something to do with the binary blob nvidia driver?

karol · 2011-09-29 15:40:55

syre wrote:

i've got nvidia and the xserver isnt launching, what's up? something to do with the binary blob nvidia driver?

If you're using [testing], please subscribe to the ML http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 22017.html

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rewind · 2011-09-29 16:47:01

Gnome 3.2 was officially released today - http://lwn.net/Articles/460819/

lijunle · 2011-09-29 17:33:27

rewind wrote:

Gnome 3.2 was officially released today - http://lwn.net/Articles/460819/

will the arch repos provide gnome 3.2 soon?

karol · 2011-09-29 17:39:56

lijunle wrote:

rewind wrote:
Gnome 3.2 was officially released today - http://lwn.net/Articles/460819/
will the arch repos provide gnome 3.2 soon?

It's in testing already ...

lijunle · 2011-09-29 17:50:02

karol wrote:

lijunle wrote:
rewind wrote:
Gnome 3.2 was officially released today - http://lwn.net/Articles/460819/
will the arch repos provide gnome 3.2 soon?
It's in testing already ...

is it the release candidate? or the final one? will it be provide in [extra]?

Bhran · 2011-09-29 21:23:01

How long until Gnome 3.2 exits [testing]??

TheJJ · 2011-09-29 21:35:10

I had exactly the same problem, i had gdm running via /etc/inittab and could no longer log in either.

Now i use KDM which is much better anyway, more convenient for remembering xfce as desktop and has better looks.

Next problem now is: my nautilus no longer starts, error is the following:

~ $ nautilus
nautilus: symbol lookup error: nautilus: undefined symbol: gtk_overlay_new

i have no idea why this update broke two such essential apps...

karol · 2011-09-29 21:36:10

TheJJ wrote:

i have no idea why this update broke two such essential apps...

That's why we have [testing] :-)

wonder · 2011-09-29 21:37:00

@TheJJ you don't have gtk3 3.2.0.

TheJJ · 2011-09-29 22:04:19

indeed, after short digging i found out that I had gtk3-ubuntu, which wasn't updated yet.

replacing it by the regular gtk3 revived nautilus.

thanks for the hint!

wonder · 2011-09-29 22:18:37

@TheJJ you should check out pacman -Qm and see what other packages you replaced.

ElderSnake · 2011-09-30 07:33:55

syre wrote:

i've got nvidia and the xserver isnt launching, what's up? something to do with the binary blob nvidia driver?

mailinglist wrote:

NVIDIA users be aware that xorg-server 1.11 from testing is incompatible
with the current nvidia driver, even with IgnoreABI. You can switch to
nouveau or add xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-synaptics xorg-server-common
xorg-server to Ignorepkg.

What's interesting however, is I dived in earlier today anyway (I have Nvidia GTX460) and sure enough, X-server broke. But enabling "IgnoreABI" actually worked fine for me.

ngoonee · 2011-09-30 08:53:01

ElderSnake wrote:

What's interesting however, is I dived in earlier today anyway (I have Nvidia GTX460) and sure enough, X-server broke. But enabling "IgnoreABI" actually worked fine for me.

It 'works', but with some bugs. The ML (and nvidia forums) has more details.

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Gnome 3.2 from [testing] - Problem

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