Re: Gnome-shell crashing on startup



Il giorno lun, 28/03/2011 alle 11.55 -0400, G. Michael Carter ha
scritto:
> I updated to all the latest packages on F15 this morning and
> rebooted.  Now the gnome-shell is repeatedly crashing (or I'm assuming
> so).    I started with startx 1> start.log 2> start.err 3>start.oth
> but still don't have much clue as to why gnome-shell is crashing....
> other than the gnome-shell.desktop failed to register before time out.
> 
> 
> How to I get more info on why it's crashing?

Don't use startx, use a display manager and gnome-session. You should
get a dialog reporting the failed session (a fail whale), at which point
just Alt-f2
gdb gnome-shell 1> gnome-shell.log 2>&1
run
(wait for crash)

Giovanni

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