Re: problem with gnome on installing Debian 7

[Larry Johnson <larryfeltonjohnson@gmail.com>]

Actually, Brian's suggestion to reinstall was a good one, and for a reason I wouldn't have expected.  I noticed when I started to reinstall that I was using the i386 version instead of the amd64 (consistent with my chip).  I'm not sure what direct effect that would have on gnome-shell, but reinstalling with the proper version corrected the problem.  It also fixed another more cosmetic problem with the gnome display (an ugly black blank space initially at the bottom of the screen).  I'm going to reboot a few times, and if the problem doesn't recur update the bug report.