fallback and safe modes

Mon Apr 11 13:30:20 UTC 2011

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 06:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Another option I think is needed is a safe mode which basically ignores
> all the installed extensions.  The reason is that, these GNOME Shell
> extensions are essentially arbitrary javascript and if I install a bunch
> of extensions and one of them has a bug, GNOME Shell basically gives up
> and you can't login.  Similar to Firefox, a safe mode might be handy to have

That is why we don't recommend installing extensions...
more seriously, 'one of them has a bug' is a little to generic to be
useful. What kind of problem did you encounter, and how did the shell
fail to work ?