Package: gnome-core Version: 1:3.8+2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi. Yeah... first sorry for reproting against gnome-core,... but I have hell no idea which component actually does the mess. Unfortunately compiz was removed from Debian (for whatever reason) and professional user seems to be forced now to use the grandma click&go style metacity, which is in basically every respect not usable as a poweruser... nevertheless. So I switched to metacity and first two major functionalities got lost: 1) one cannot configure "Switch to workspace" keybindings for workspaces > 4 anymore (WTF?) 2) Major functionality... well at least for powerusers, which GNOME doesn't really seem to support anymore,... One cannot bind the Super key anymore... e.g. every poweruser will probably open the Terminal most... so it's the most reasonable thing in the world to bind that to a single key which is close to the hand (i.e. not to some "media" key that some keyboards have. The same functionality was already lost with GNOME 3.0 for the Menu key So a) please bring back both functionalities... people have more than 4 workspaces any may want to switch to these via the keyboard,... and people also want to assign the Super_L and Menu keys. So much for the major functionality part... ... now on to the bluescreen (this is sooo disturbing) Well I then tried to "convince" GNOME of using the Super_L key for my Terminal custom shortcut. So I got into dconf (knowing that GNOME is targeted for stupid users and hides at least some functionality that would make it usable in there) and manually set "Super_L" as shortcut key. Nothing happened... Then I saw that GNOME uses Super_L in some places and just <Super> in the others... so I set this. Then I felt like being on windows... GNOME immediately crashed but gave me some kinda bluescreen, telling "Ooops something went wrong"... This happens always again now when I try to login. So I tried for recovery... dconf cli seems to be useless... regardless of what I tried it neither prints out anything nor does it set anything. Then I wanted to remove the custom binding: org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings ['/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/'] But guess what: ~$ gsettings reset org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings (process:12814): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=ac4a96dafad33ca4628823d94862cdf5 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process exited with code 1 It fails obviously... since dconf is some Windowsish registry binary blob (what is it that these guys are somking?) I have no further idea on how to get back a working system. Well... I guess there goes a lot wrong here with GNOME... any help in fixing the above and making the whole thing at least a bit usable again would be highly appreciated. Oh and I guess my comment about being a power user already implies that this is not about GNOME-sheel ;) Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnome-core depends on: ii at-spi2-core 2.9.5-1 ii baobab 3.8.2-1 ii brasero 3.8.0-2 ii caribou 0.4.4-1 ii caribou-antler 0.4.4-1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.16.1-1 ii dconf-tools 0.16.1-1 ii empathy 3.4.2.3-4 ii eog 3.8.2-1 ii evince 3.4.0-3.1+b1 ii evolution-data-server 3.4.4-4 ii fonts-cantarell 0.0.13-1 ii gconf2 3.2.6-1 ii gdm3 3.4.1-9 ii gkbd-capplet 3.6.0-1 ii glib-networking 2.36.1-2 ii gnome-backgrounds 3.8.1-1 ii gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2 ii gnome-calculator 3.8.2-1 ii gnome-contacts 3.4.1-2 ii gnome-control-center 1:3.4.3.1-5+b1 ii gnome-dictionary 3.6.0-1 ii gnome-disk-utility 3.0.2-3 ii gnome-font-viewer 3.8.0-1 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.8.2-2 ii gnome-icon-theme-extras 3.6.2-2 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.8.2.2-2 ii gnome-keyring 3.8.2-2 ii gnome-menus 3.8.0-2 ii gnome-online-accounts 100 ii gnome-packagekit 100 ii gnome-panel 3.4.2.1-5 ii gnome-power-manager 3.8.2-1 ii gnome-screensaver 3.4.1-1+b1 ii gnome-screenshot 3.8.2-1 ii gnome-search-tool 3.6.0-1 ii gnome-session 3.4.2.1-4 ii gnome-session-fallback 3.4.2.1-4 ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-6+b2 ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-12 ii gnome-sushi 0.4.1-5+b1 ii gnome-system-log 3.8.1-1 ii gnome-system-monitor 3.8.2.1-2 ii gnome-terminal 3.8.3-1 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.8.3-1 ii gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1 ii gnome-user-share 100 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-3 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.0.9-1 ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.0.9-1 ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.0.9-1 ii gtk2-engines 1:2.20.2-2 ii gucharmap 1:3.8.2-2 ii gvfs-backends 1.16.3-1 ii gvfs-bin 1.16.3-1 ii iceweasel 23.0-2 ii libatk-adaptor 2.9.5-1 ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-2 ii libcaribou-gtk-module 0.4.4-1 ii libcaribou-gtk3-module 0.4.4-1 ii libgtk-3-common 3.8.2-3 ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.8.2-2 ii metacity 1:2.34.13-1 ii mousetweaks 3.8.0-1 ii nautilus 3.4.2-2 ii notification-daemon 0.7.6-1 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 ii pulseaudio 4.0-6 ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-1 ii vino 3.8.1-1 ii yelp 3.8.1-2 ii zenity 3.8.0-1 Versions of packages gnome-core recommends: ii network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.2-1+b1 Versions of packages gnome-core suggests: pn gnome <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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