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

[Andy Lawrence]

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. 
Is there a package we can down-grade to get back up and running?  Or an
update via Koji?

Thanks

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[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:34 -0500, Andy Lawrence wrote:

>  Is there a package we can down-grade to get back up and running?  Or
>  an update via Koji? 
With the gnome-shell, gjs and gobject-introspection builds that are in
koji now, things should be much better. At least on my system, things
work fine again.

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:12 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 17:34 -0500, Andy Lawrence wrote:
>  
>  > Is there a package we can down-grade to get back up and running?  Or
>  > an update via Koji?
>  
>  With the gnome-shell, gjs and gobject-introspection builds that are in
>  koji now, things should be much better. At least on my system, things
>  work fine again. 
So that presumes a switch to the Shell?

Jon.

[Christoph Frieben]

2011/1/13 Jon Masters:
>  So that presumes a switch to the Shell? 
Today's nightly desktop spin boots correctly, launching GOME starts
with gnome-shell being active. However, it is possible to fire up
metacity, and the desktop then works fine, too. ~C