Quoting Michael Hill :

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Michael Hill wrote:

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After a massive update today, gnome-shell thinks it's not running and blocks my desktop with a crash message that only gives me the option of logging out.  I can get to the overview using the keyboard and launch things using the mouse, but back on the desktop nothing can be reached past the error message.  According to /var/log/messages, dbus may not be running.

I would boot my other installed Linux on this machine, but I'm at the Brno docs hackfest and my working directory is in openSUSE.  I know I should have been happy with yesterday's GNOME 3.3, but we're trying to make sure we document the latest versions.

I consulted one of the GTK+ guys at the hackfest and he showed me that Alt+F4 will dispatch the offending error message by which time the system realizes Shell is running and doesn't time out.

We (gnome hackers, mostly vuntz) just figured what the problem was here and the fix is being prepared / checked into GNOME:Factory. The 'source' of the problem was the xorg-x11 packaging change, which lead to a 'mutter' package being built without libSM support... which in turn gave gnome-shell no chance to register properly, giving the 30 second timeout and gnome-session believed the shell did not come up... Identified, fixed, preparing to release to the wild. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org