Re: problem in Fedora16 with Gnome3

[Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux comcast net>]

Well my problem was because I upgraded from F14 to F16. Apparently the 
upgrade logic doesn't install gnome-shell because it didn't exist in F14 
and thus is not in the upgrade.

If you installed from a Live CD, it does not sound like the same problem.

One way to find out if gnome-shell is missing in your installation is to 
run the following command from a terminal:

$ rpm -qa | grep gnome-shell

Among possible other results you should see:

gnome-shell-3.2.2.1-1.fc16.i686

If you do not see the above entry, then you should login as root and 
install the gnome-shell using yum:

yum install gnome-shell

If you do see that gnome-shell is installed then there is some other 
problem. I have another F16 system that will not run in 
non-fallback-mode. So far I have no answers on that one.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=275022

Philip

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RAMA KRISHNA KOPPISETTI wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed Fedora 16 with live CD. After install gnome-shell also i 
> didn't get gnome3 graphical screen.Could you please suggest me how to 
> install gnome3.
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Philip Walden 
> <pwaldenlinux comcast net <mailto:pwaldenlinux comcast net>> wrote:
>
>     Did you upgrade from an earlier Fedora version?
>
>     There is a know problem with gnome-shell not being installed
>
>     http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=274686
>
>     RAMA KRISHNA KOPPISETTI wrote:
>
>         Hello Olav,
>
>         If I'm set to fallback mode to off than also it was same
>         screen.Please find the attachments of screen shots.
>
>
>         Thanks & Regards,
>
>         Ramakrishna
>         ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>         On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl
>         <mailto:olav vitters nl> <mailto:olav vitters nl
>         <mailto:olav vitters nl>>> wrote:
>
>            On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:29:00PM +0800, RAMA KRISHNA
>         KOPPISETTI
>            wrote:
>         > I'm using Fedora 16 with Gnome3 but at top-panel I'm getting
>         only
>         > Applications and places but not Activities. I'm unable to get
>            windows to
>         > desktop and applications also not working.
>
>            It seems like you're using fallback mode. This is used when the
>            graphics
>            card or the drivers are not good enough.
>
>            What kind of graphics card do you have? Can you go to
>         system settings,
>            system info. Then under the graphics tab you should see if
>         you're
>            using
>            fallback mode or not.
>
>            Else, just post a screenshot.
>
>            --
>            Regards,
>            Olav