Can't get out of fallback mode

[michaelg14]

I have done a fresh install of LMDE 201109 with all the updates. I have managed to get nvidia 295 graphics driver installed. Still I am stuck in fallback mode. My login choices are Gnome, gnome(something I can't remember) and System Default. everything sends me to fallback. One thing that might be relevant when the system is first starting the video flashes several times in different colors.

How do I get to Gnome 3?

[mank_in]

If you are stack in gnome fallback, your vga driver not install correctly.
check with :

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inxi -Gx

[Fornhamfred]

Hi

You say that you have updated fully, if you have updated with Pack 4 you will have gnome 3 already installed by default. At login the gnome choice is Gnome 3. If I were you I would download the new iso and re-install. If you backup your home partition you can always restore it after the install.

[michaelg14]

This is what I get


]Graphics: Card nVidia GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] X.Org 1.11.4 Res: 1920x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20 Direct Rendering Yes

[michaelg14]

Does the new iso have Gnome 3 or is it just Cinnamon and Mate?

[mank_in]

You got correct driver.
Actually the ISO contain latest release LMDE still release candidate : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1967
If you are using LMDE 201109 ISO, to aply update pack for , check this one : http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1949

[zerozero]

I have done a fresh install of LMDE 201109 with all the updates.

how stock is this fresh install? have you installed and activated compiz?

because all the rest looks strange, as mank_in says the driver is installed and direct rendering is active, your graphic card is more than capable to run gnome-shell.

try (after check that compiz thingy) reinstall the shell

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-shell

[michaelg14]

did the reinstall, had no effect. I am going to do a fresh install of the whole thing. I will be back in a couple hours.

[michaelg14]

I am back with a completely new installation. I used the 201109 iso when it finished I set the software repositories to

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

Did 800 MB worth of updates then loaded my graphics driver with

apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx build-essential nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig
sudo nvidia-xconfig
sudo echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau libdrm-nouveau1a

In a root terminal. and not one thing changed. I still don't have Gnome three and I am stuck in fallback mode.

EDIT: I do have Gnome 3, I am just stuck in fallback mode.

[zerozero]

that is a weird one
- your card is powerful enough to run the shell (every google search shows that, even with hits from here, the mint forum)
- the driver is installed and direct rendering available.
dunno
what is the full output of

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inxi -Fc 0

and in the fallback mode if you do

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gnome-shell --replace

what happens (and what msg you get in the terminal?)

[michaelg14]

The output of both commands is below. When I run the shell replace command I end up in Gnome Shell until I close the terminal then my system crashes with no desktop and everything frozen. Sorry it has taken a while to get this information.

greybeard@greybeard:~$ inxi -Fc 0
System: Host greybeard Kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU: Octa core AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache 16384 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips 49766.6
Clock Speeds: (1) 3110.413 MHz (2) 3110.413 MHz (3) 3110.413 MHz (4) 3110.413 MHz (5) 3110.413 MHz (6) 3110.413 MHz (7) 3110.413 MHz (8) 3110.413 MHz
Graphics: Card nVidia GF110 [GeForce GTX 560 Ti] X.Org 1.11.4 Res: 1920x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 295.20 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 00:14.2
Card-2 nVidia Device 0e0c driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 01:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port b000 BusID: 08:00.0
Card-2 Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 BusID: 06:05.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 1492.3GB (54.5% used) 1: /dev/sdc C300 128.0GB
2: /dev/sda CORSAIR_CMFSSD 128.0GB 3: /dev/sdb WDC_SSC 256.1GB
4: USB /dev/sdd 3200 160.0GB 5: /dev/sde My_Passport_071A 500.1GB
6: /dev/sdf 3200AAJ_External 320.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 6.3G used: 5.1G (86%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 6.3G used: 5.1G (86%) fs: ext4
ID:/home size: 99G used: 81G (82%) fs: ext4
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 22.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:44C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes 200 Uptime 2 min Memory 463.6/7951.9MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23


greybeard@greybeard:~$ gnome-shell --replace
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/greybeard/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Error reading file '/home/greybeard/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': Is a directory.
(gnome-shell:3045): folks-DEBUG: individual-aggregator.vala:310: Setting primary store IDs to defaults.
(gnome-shell:3045): folks-DEBUG: individual-aggregator.vala:338: Primary store IDs are 'eds' and 'system'.
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'assignment to undeclared variable owner'
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/greybeard/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/music-integration@brianrobles204/extension.js' line 1432 exception 0 number 156
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'assignment to undeclared variable type'
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/greybeard/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/temperature@xtranophilist/extension.js' line 213 exception 0 number 156
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'assignment to undeclared variable r'
JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/home/greybeard/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/temperature@xtranophilist/extension.js' line 325 exception 0 number 156
JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring GTop, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GTop' (any version) not found
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"("Requiring GTop, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GTop' (any version) not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/home/greybeard/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/systemMonitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com/extension.js:4
"'
JS ERROR: !!! message = '"Requiring GTop, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'GTop' (any version) not found"'
JS ERROR: !!! Exception in callback for signal: extension-state-changed
JS ERROR: !!! message = '"JavaScript Object can't be converted to dbus type s"'
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"gjs_throw"'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"("JavaScript Object can't be converted to dbus type s")@gjs_throw:0
([object Object],[object Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/shellDBus.js:208
_emit("extension-state-changed",[object Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124
logExtensionError("systemMonitor@gnome-shell-extensions.gcampax.github.com",[object Error])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:254
loadExtension([object _private_GObject_GLocalFile],true,2)@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:353
_loadExtensionsIn([object _private_GObject_GLocalFile],2)@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:447
loadExtensions()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/extensionSystem.js:460
_initUserSession()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:139
start()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:236
@<main>:1
"'
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject
Window manager warning: Log level 16: Error registering polkit authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject (polkit-error-quark 0)
JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Apr 18 2012 18:59:44 GMT-0700 (PDT)

(gnome-shell:3045): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_client_new: Cannot get book from factory: Invalid source

(gnome-shell:3045): folks-WARNING **: Error preparing persona store 'eds:1275672773.2129.4@greybeard-desktop': Couldn't open address book ‘1275672773.2129.4@greybeard-desktop’: Invalid source

Edit: I am back in fallback after rebooting. It looks like a large number of errors, I hope it telly you something.

[zerozero]

ID:/home size: 99G used: 81G (82%) fs: ext4

are you installing over an existing home?
that is not a stock install, not with 81gb used and not with all those extensions erroring in the output.

[michaelg14]

Yes, I have a separate home partition that is shared with Mint 12 Lisa. I have had the same home partition for several years and several versions of Linux.

[zerozero]

yeahh, convenient but not advisable (you shpuld know the issues that can arise from the conf files conflits, specially as in here with 2 distros soo different as lisa and lmde)

as a test try to create a dummy-user and try again.

[michaelg14]

Yes you are probably right. They worked OK before Gnome 3 came along, maybe I need to delete everything and start over. Thanks for your help.

[Fornhamfred]

Would it not still be adviseable to use the new ISO not the old one?

[michaelg14]

Yes, but I seem to be in the minority that likes the Gnome 3 desktop and the new one isn't out yet. I did download the new Mate/Cinamon iso and loaded it. It works fine but I did re-do my home partition. I haven't tried 201109 again.