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choel
December 10th, 2011, 08:28 PM
After an update 3 days ago gnome-shell stopped working, trying to restart it with
gnome-shell --replace only results in another crash and the keyboard stops working.

This is what I get when trying to start gnome-shell:
st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget [0x24112a0 StButton.status-chooser-user-icon] which is not in the stage. and
gnome-shell-calendar-server[4829]: Got HUP on stdin - exiting Trace/breakpoint trap

If I look in the xorg.0.log I got this error:
gnome-session[5321]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly and
: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

Ran "metacity --replace" just to get the window borders back for now. The interesting thing is if I log in to xfce I got the same problem, no window boarders, must run "metacity --replace" in xfce also.

Running Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell 3.2.1.
plaw
December 10th, 2011, 11:10 PM
The problem is caused by the gnome-shell Alternative Status Menu extension:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739271

You can try the workarounds suggested in the previous link, or read here for how to remove the extension:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#When_an_extension_breaks_GNOME
lolpenguin
December 11th, 2011, 05:32 AM
The problem is caused by the gnome-shell Alternative Status Menu extension:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739271

You can try the workarounds suggested in the previous link, or read here for how to remove the extension:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#When_an_extension_breaks_GNOME

Umm...not really. Any extension can cause GNOME Shell to break. Delete the extension/uninstall it. Extensions are located in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ OR ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.
EDIT: system-monitor@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com broke the Shell after upgrade to 3.2.1.
vanlong441
December 11th, 2011, 02:11 PM
Umm...not really. Any extension can cause GNOME Shell to break. Delete the extension/uninstall it. Extensions are located in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ OR ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.
EDIT: system-monitor@paradoxxx.zero.gmail.com broke the Shell after upgrade to 3.2.1.

to add to lolpenguin,
extensions and shell themes do break the shell. If it is broken, we can ctrl alt backspace to log out and log into the fallback mode. Then from there follow lolpenguin's instruction.