On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:34:09AM -0600, Stan Sander wrote: > On 05/13/2013 03:03 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd bet on libffi as the culprit. You may try to use the version from > > the hardened overlay (there was one that should patch the issue a while > > ago). I was able to fix gnome on the only box I'm running gnome on right > > now (the issue was more or less the same). > > > > Note: I use 3.0.12-r1 (which is an old version because an update to the > > stable version broke it again and I haven't had time to upgrade and > > retry). > > > > WKR > > Hinnerk > > Well, you got it!!! I had seen other posts talking about rebuilding > libffi, which I had tried. However I did not try changing versions of > the library. I now have a working gnome-shell. So now I can start > poking around and learning how the gnome desktop works and tweaking > settings to my liking. I did have to downgrade libffi to 3.0.11 in > order to get things to work. Do you know if there is a bug open on the > libffi->gnome-shell interaction? If not, I'll open one as this is > something that needs to be looked at and fixed. If there is one, I'll > add myself to the CC.
I'm not aware of any open bugs regarding this issue. As I said above: I didn't upgrade due to time constraints (mostly because it's a remote system). If you open a new bug for the issue (if there isn't an open one at b.g.o.) it would be nice if you could add me to CC (or reply with the bug id so I can add myself).
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