Problem with gnome-shell restart in F16: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:17 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> having a weird problem in F16 with gnome-shell: Restarting the
> gnome-shell with "alt+f2" and "r" consecutively at most twice, the gnome
> session dies with the *well known F16 message*:
> 
> "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occured and the system
> can't recover. Please log out and try again".

Well, that's not weird. That's just...what the fail whale does. If any
critical bit of GNOME looks like it's crashing repeatedly, it pops up.
So, yeah, if you spam restarts of Shell, you'll trigger the fail whale.
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