Re: Gnome Shell Problems

[Luke Morton <luke morton internode on net>]

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
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