On Wednesday, 12. October 2011 18:02:16 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > gnome-shell segfaults. > > I remember some problems with gnome-shell and GL from the dri-devel-ML. > > What video-card are you using? Drivers/version? > > Is there any other WM you can start, execute > > gnome-shell --replace > > in a console and dump the output here? > > Could you try running gnome in "fallback-mode"? > > Afaik you can enable this with > > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome-fallback > > Actually the gnome-shell segfault is the 2nd problem. gdm crashes with > Oh no, a problem has occurred unless its gnome-shell use flag is > disabled, which could possibly be the cause of gnome-shell failing.
Couldn't it be the other way round? gdm crashes with gnome-shell use-flag set, because gnome-shell segfaults? It runs without the flag, because in this case there's no dep to the shell. > Canek has suggested we attack the gdm problem (see other msgs in this > thread) and that is the current plan. Unfortunately we are still not > there. Imo both problems are related (see above). > In bug 385525, those who needed -gnome-shell for gdm could then not get > gnome-shell to run (i.e., just like me). > > It does seem that many are successfully running gdm so I must have > something wrong in my setup. What use flags did you build gdm with. > Here is mine > Installed versions: 3.2.0-r1[1](05:47:00 PM 10/12/2011)(accessibility > consolekit elibc_glibc gnome-shell introspection ipv6 tcpd xklavier -debug > -fprint -gnome-keyring -selinux -smartcard -test -xinerama) Well, I do not use gnome :) But I am quite good in reading logs, coredumps and things like that :) > thanks for the help, > allan Best, Michael
