On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years. I > performed a "routine" update/upgrade on Sunday, and I seem to have > lost gnome. At first, I could not log in, but I got that fixed. > However, when I log in, all I get is my wallpaper. No favorites on the > left, no window docks (not sure of the terminology here) on the right, > no taskbar at the top, etc. Just a wall paper. I also get an error > message "No system tray detected, unable to start". However, I traced > that back to an hp printer service, so I don't think it is relevant. > > I have tried uninstalling/installing gnome, but no change. I tried > creating an new user and logging in with that user, and I get the same > situation - but the default wall paper and not my personal one. I have > run several update/upgrade and update/dist-upgrades since Sunday, and > no change. I have looked through the 'net to find solutions, and I am > not getting anywhere. > [...] Multiple people seem to have this issue, including me. The problem is solved in gnome-shell from unstable, you can either wait until it migrates to testing (in 1 or 2 days I guess, judging from the QA page [1]) or you can install from unstable with "aptitude install -t unstable gnome-shell" (no quotes). Make sure you have unstable in your sources.list file. Just be careful not to upgrade your whole system to unstable, but only that package. Regards, Steven
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