forgot to add: Fedora 16, uname -r is 3.4.6-1.fc16.i686, GNOME 3.2.2.1 (this hasn't changed since last time), and `yum reinstall gnome-shell glib-devel` didn't help.
On 6 August 2012 10:14, Amy C <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > All of a sudden a couple of days ago (4/Aug afternoon AEST) my > gnome-shell refused to start with the following error: > > Exception was: Error: Failed to throw Exception 'Object 0xaf7065b0 > proto 0xaf702078 doesn't have a dynamically-registered class, it has > $$`' > lineNumber = '243' > fileName = '"/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js"' > stack = '"_init()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/overrides/GLib.js:243" > @/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/environment.js:3 > "' > Can't init class Variant > > Aborted > > I have not managed to get it to start since, always getting the above > error (but the '$$`' appears to be random, sometimes rendering as odd > symbols). > > I do not know what I would have done to trigger this. I have emptied > my ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions so to eliminate them as a > problem. I can successfully log in to any other shell (including > 'Classic GNOME with Compiz'), so this is gnome-shell specific. > > Does anyone know how to fix this/what I can do to further diagnose the > problem? (that error message is the one in .xsession-errors and also > that appears in the terminal when I try a `gnome-shell --replace` from > there). > > cheers (I miss gnome-shell already!) _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
