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[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 09:51 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Seeing the black screen of death with $SUBJECT is becoming an increasingly
> common part of my rawhide experience; today's update brought it back again.
> Would it really be too hard for it to way *what* went wrong?  I did manage
> to find an error in .xsession-errors - but only, of course, if I looked
> before logging in with fallback mode.  It shouldn't be that hard.
> 
> The error, anyway, seems to be this (several times):
> 
>     JS ERROR: !!!     stack = '"("Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Meta' version '3.0', but '3.1' is already loaded")@gjs_throw:0
> @/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:18
> "'
>     JS ERROR: !!!     message = '"Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Meta' version '3.0', but '3.1' is already loaded"'
>     JS ERROR: !!!   Exception was: Error: Requiring Shell, version none: Requiring namespace 'Meta' version '3.0', but '3.1' is already loaded
>     JS ERROR: !!!     lineNumber = '0'
>     JS ERROR: !!!     fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
> 
> I'm running gnome-shell-3.0.2-4.fc16.x86_64.  Any ideas?

You need Mutter 3.1.3.1 (not 3.1.3). 3.1.3 mistakenly bumped that
namespace.

What that screen means is that an essential component of gnome (it
usually turns out to be Shell) failed to start three times within a
minute, I believe.
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