Re: Heads up: selinux-policy-3.14.1-25.fc28 breaks GDM

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 20:13 -0600, Jerry James wrote:

<referring to the gnome-shell "oh no!" screen as displayed when GDM
blew up>

>  [1] Which is totally useless, by the way.  It says "Oh no! 
> Something went
>  wrong!"  (Great.  *WHAT* went wrong?) and informs me that I must logout.  I
>  wasn't logged in.  There's a nice logout button there, but it can't be
>  pressed.  There is no mouse pointer.  No keyboard shortcut that I can think
>  of causes the button to change appearance.  Even if I did manage to press
>  it, what exactly would that do?  I'm already not logged in! 
I'd file a bug on upstream GNOME for this, against gdm or gnome-shell.
The screen is part of *gnome-shell*, in fact, not GDM. IIRC and AIUI
(put those on my gravestone!), the screen was introduced before gdm
became basically a special case of shell - so the screen was written
assuming it'd be displayed when a *logged-in session* hit a critical
failure. But now gdm *is* just a special case of gnome-shell...it also
shows up when a *gdm instance* hits a critical failure. And obviously,
as you say, makes very little sense in that case. CCing desktop list.
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