Gnome3 PPA is getting ready

**cecilpierce** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by Mblackwell

You want to use the Gnome Shell session.

The choice window is blank, besides it keeps giving me (failed to load session 'ubuntu') and goes back to login screen.
The only way I can get in is through vt1 as root, kill gdm and do sudo startx.

**Cenotaph** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by cecilpierce

The choice window is blank, besides it keeps giving me (failed to load session 'ubuntu') and goes back to login screen.
The only way I can get in is through vt1 as root, kill gdm and do sudo startx.

I assume you uninstalled the gnome-session package, a pure upgrade will do that because of dependencies. you need to reinstall it. and get rid of gnome-session-common, iirc.

**Starks** · April 9th, 2011

I'm having a lot of gnome-session problems.

I get the Windows 95 look if anything at all.

**cecilpierce** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by Cenotaph

I assume you uninstalled the gnome-session package, a pure upgrade will do that because of dependencies. you need to reinstall it. and get rid of gnome-session-common, iirc.

I can't remember what I did Ive tried so many things I'm going nuts ! I'll check it out and see but I don't have much hope, it seems really screwed up,
thanks

**FEGuy** · April 9th, 2011

Are you guys installing from the Gnome3 PPA?

**Mblackwell** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by 23dornot23d

Ok that is working nicely now ..... the odd error about the network - but its working now ..... LINK

sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

I notice it looks like the Adwaita theme isn't working for you.

Hmmm I don't see it in /usr/share/themes/ on my box either (I'm also using a jhbuild of Shell).

Here, I attached a build of the theme. You should be able to just extract the Adwaita folder to ~/.themes/

**Mblackwell** · April 9th, 2011

Originally Posted by cecilpierce

I can't remember what I did Ive tried so many things I'm going nuts ! I'll check it out and see but I don't have much hope, it seems really screwed up,
thanks

A good simple strategy if you see problems is to:

Code:

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

It will give you options instead of making decisions for you. You can see what packages are possibly going to removed and why. You can then (after deciding yes or no) work on fixing the discrepancy.

Any time it tries to do something wicked like remove gnome-session, don't upgrade quite yet unless you can get aptitude to give you a better option.

If you're going to be using an (still unfortunately) experimental PPA on top of an experimental release it's a good idea to get used to having terminal/package-manager fun!

**23dornot23d** · April 9th, 2011

Cheers Mblackwell ......

I seem to be sorted now ... for Gnome Session ...... ty .......

**Mblackwell** · April 9th, 2011

You're welcome. I edited my post btw with a recentish copy of the Adwaita theme for those it doesn't seem to be working for.

Also make sure you have the packages gnome-themes, gnome-themes-standard, gnome-icon-theme, and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.

**cecilpierce** · April 9th, 2011

Well I appreciate all your help and ideas its finally working pretty good (even have sound now) except for windows popping up with crashes but every thing comes back. No more Root where my name is !!!

Thanks, Cec