On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 09:05 +1000, Luke Morton wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 13:53 +0100, Chris Baines wrote: > > I have gnome-shell version 2.91.92 installed on Debian > > Sid/Experimental. When I try to login the screen appears blank and the > > processor and memory usage jumps sky high. > > I'm running Debian too and there appears to be a problem with mutter > (2.91.92-1). I rolled back to the previous version (2.91.91-1) from my > local cache and it's running fine again. (I haven't logged a bug report > yet.) > > > When I login using the twm > > (Tab Window Manager) and try to start gnome shell from bash to get > > some debug output it refuses to start saying: > > chris@chris-desktop:~$ gnome-shell --replace > > Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager > > I don't know about twm, but that process works for me logging into GNOME > classic. > > > How do I go about debugging the issue here, I have looked at the > > commands listed on the https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging > > page, but as I don't have a working gnome session, I cannot use them. > > Can you select GNOME 2 ("GNOME" on my system) when you login? > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > gnome-shell-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > Sorry for the delay, I have Gnome Shell working again! I used the /etc/apt/preferences file to force apt to upgrade all the dependencies of gnome-shell to the highest available. I don’t have the GNOME 2 option when I login, I think this is because I have the latest version of gnome-session installed. Thanks, Chris
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