[Mageia-dev] Gnome3 issues gnome-shell not loading.

[D.Morgan]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, John Balcaen <mikala at mageia.org> wrote:
> 2011/7/28 Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>:
>> Hi,
> Hello,
>
>> Since updates about 2 days ago, I've not been able to log in to gnome 3.
>> gnome-shell does not start.
> It's related to the new metacity 2.34.0 (i did not pushed it initially
> because it was
> not working correctly localy when i tested it)

worked for me   for weeks

>
>> I only noticed last night and did further updates which brought in new
>> Mesa and a lot of KDE stuff.
>>
>> More updates today, but still no joy.
>>
>> The GDM login window takes a long time to appear (the GDM background
>> appears quickly), and after entering my password, my user desktop
>> appears but no actual shell.
>>
>> Anyone else see this?
>>
>> I couldn't see anything immediately useful in .xsession errors but will
>> check again another time (likely not until tomorrow morning tho')
> In fact it's just another problem with « failed to register » functionnality.
> The « something goes wrong » windows before is certainly related to that too :
> gnome-shell was already failing to register itself, & now the same is
> happening with metacity.
>
> If i'm not wrong guillomovitch opened a bug report regarding this.

yes see :
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2290