Rawhide: Gnome totally busted after today's (?) round of updates

[Horst H. von Brand]

After "yum erase"ing rhythmbox (it did hold back some hundreds of updates),
and rebooting into my Gnome/Openbox session (and leaving, the screensaver
kicked in) I found the background flickering. I gave the password to the
screensaver, and the background stabilized, but nothing else (Gnome panels,
etc) did show up.

Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did:

telinit 3
telinit 5

No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No
dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4.
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[Nathaniel McCallum]

On 01/11/2011 05:28 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>  After "yum erase"ing rhythmbox (it did hold back some
> hundreds of updates),
>  and rebooting into my Gnome/Openbox session (and leaving, the screensaver
>  kicked in) I found the background flickering. I gave the password to the
>  screensaver, and the background stabilized, but nothing else (Gnome panels,
>  etc) did show up.
>  
>  Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did:
>  
>  telinit 3
>  telinit 5
>  
>  No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No
>  dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4. 
Same for me, also running XFCE.  I also created a new/clean user to see
if there was a problem with my gnome config, but the problem exists
there as well.  I searched for bugs, but didn't find anything.  I'm not
sure what component to file it under.

Nathaniel

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:37:25 -0500
Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel(a)natemccallum.com&gt; wrote:

...snip...

>  > No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with
> plain
>  > Gnome. No dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4.
>  
>  Same for me, also running XFCE.  I also created a new/clean user to
>  see if there was a problem with my gnome config, but the problem
>  exists there as well.  I searched for bugs, but didn't find
>  anything.  I'm not sure what component to file it under. 
I'm not sure whats causing the Gnome issues, but while you guys are
there, please do test out Xfce 4.8 and file any issues you run into. ;) 

kevin

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:28 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>  After "yum erase"ing rhythmbox (it did hold back some
> hundreds of updates),
>  and rebooting into my Gnome/Openbox session (and leaving, the screensaver
>  kicked in) I found the background flickering. I gave the password to the
>  screensaver, and the background stabilized, but nothing else (Gnome panels,
>  etc) did show up.
>  
>  Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did:
>  
>  telinit 3
>  telinit 5
>  
>  No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No
>  dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4. 
rm ~/gnome-shell/install/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so

is recommended on the gnome-shell ML.
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Adam Williamson
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[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 23:04 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:28 -0300, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
>  > After "yum erase"ing rhythmbox (it did hold back some hundreds of
> updates),
>  > and rebooting into my Gnome/Openbox session (and leaving, the screensaver
>  > kicked in) I found the background flickering. I gave the password to the
>  > screensaver, and the background stabilized, but nothing else (Gnome panels,
>  > etc) did show up.
>  > 
>  > Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did:
>  > 
>  > telinit 3
>  > telinit 5
>  > 
>  > No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No
>  > dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4.
>  
>  rm ~/gnome-shell/install/lib/gtk-3.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so
>  
>  is recommended on the gnome-shell ML. 
That is not going to help. libcanberra is not involved in these
problems.