Cannot login to GNOME after sid update (was: Oh No! Something has gone wrong)
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:58:59 -0400, Frank wrote:
> Did a full upgrade on my Sid system this morning...and now Gnome won't
> load. The upgrade apparently took Gnome from 2 to 3 and the "infamous"
> Gnome Shell.
> Well something went wrong...I have tried re-logging in again many times,
> as the error screen suggests..I have re-booted, renamed .gnome2 to
> .gnome2.bak, even moved .gconf out of the way...but nothing has worked
> so far. My old Gnome desktop was heavily customized, with wbar as an
> application launcher and a minimal gnome panel...but I don't know
> whether this had anything to do with the problem. My system does not
> support 3d acceleration...and I noticed that gnome-session says that is
> one of the requirements for gnome-shell. Is this the problem...does
> anybody have ideas?
I dunno what could have happened (is gnome-shell already available in
sid? oh, my, here it comes...) but if 3D acceleration is not available,
gnome should enter into a "fallback" mode (kinda gnome2 desktop) and do
not use/load gnome-shell at all.
What is the error you are getting? Any pop-up message, anything under the
usual files (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log), can you at least
login to the system from a tty? The more information you provide, the
better :-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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