[Mageia-dev] Problems with Gnome 3

[Dexter Morgan]

2011/6/11 JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com>:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:45:03 +0200, JA Magallón <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all...
>>
>> I have a problem with this first big change in Cauldron...
>> I have a couple test boxes in which I have updated everything, and I can't
>> get Gnome 3 to work properly. I suppose it is still work in progress, but as
>> other people sent messages telling this or that application doesn't work...
>>
>> I can't even get an application to launch. I log in, get gnome-shell running,
>> but:
>> - no applet is shown in the bar. and they are there, i can press moue button
>>   on right menu, hover it over there and the volume bubble pops, but I see no
>>   icon on the bar.
>> - if I select "System settings" o launch firefox, immediately I get a fullscreen
>>   error about "something went wrong, plz logout and in again"
>>
>> I suppose probably I miss some depdency not correctly handled, but I can not
>> guess what.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>
> Well, after latest updates I can see things in gnome-shell, launch apps,
> see preferences, but suddenly I get kicked out, and I think this is the
> problem:
>
> gnome-settings-[2556]: segfault at 7fb8612fb1d0 ip 00007fb8612fb1d0 sp 00007fff830282d8 error 14 in libnsl-2.12.1.so[7fb8639dc000+15000]
> gnome-settings-[3257]: segfault at 7fae815011d0 ip 00007fae815011d0 sp 00007fff72cc8b58 error 14 in libnsl-2.12.1.so[7fae83be2000+15000]
> gnome-settings-[3723]: segfault at 7f42989871d0 ip 00007f42989871d0 sp 00007fffa8d55858 error 14 in libnsl-2.12.1.so[7f429b068000+15000]
>
> (from dmesg)
>
> Sometines it lasts longer, other less, but I get the error fullscreen message
> all the time. And perhaps it's because the session loses connection to gnome-settings-daemon.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> --
> J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>     \                 Winter is coming...
>

i think that it can be interesting to start gnome-settings inside gdb
to have some infos about the crash