[SOLVED] GNOME DE not working

[dcihon]

When I select GNOME I get the following error
Oh No! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please Log out and try again.

Not sure what else you need to know.
Thanks

[mads]

See if this helps:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 34#p532745

[dcihon]

I have a high end nvidia card. I can do 3d acceleration.
It was working at one time. Something broke.
What is the command to tell you what video card I have?

[mads]

I have a high end nvidia card. I can do 3d acceleration.
It was working at one time. Something broke.
What is the command to tell you what video card I have?

Ok, then it is something else. Sorry!
The command is:

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inxi -G

[dcihon]

root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~# inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.org 1) Res: 97x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root

[mads]

root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~# inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.org 1) Res: 97x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root

Why does it show: 'root@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~#' ?
Are you logging in and out as root? If so, it is not strange that you are experiencing this issue, and more will follow.

[dcihon]

no I just happened to run su - and then ran that command
here it is in my user terminal
dcihon@dcihon-linux-mint-debian:~$ inxi -G
Graphics: Card nVidia G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] X.Org 1.11.3.901 Res: 3200x1080@50.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2 GLX Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10

[dcihon]

Still trying to rebuild my Gnome 3 in LMDE, not having much luck, looking for some help.
This is my Desktop machine. It is running fine on my Laptop.
I did something to trash it but I don't know what.

[iLobster]

Take out compiz from autostart.

[dcihon]

Did that and it is working.
I did read that somewhere. I forgot about that being a problem.
Thanks for reminding me.
Now in trying to solve this issue I have lost GNOME as a choice to load.
gnome-session is installed.

[iLobster]

Did that and it is working.
I did read that somewhere. I forgot about that being a problem.
Thanks for reminding me.
Now in trying to solve this issue I have lost GNOME as a choice to load.
gnome-session is installed.

Don't understand. You had Gnome option but it didn't work.
Now you can load it but you don't have such option. Correct? If so, how do you try to load it?

After installing Gnome 3.2 there are two logon options: Gnome and Gnome Classic.

[dcihon]

Sorry about the confusion.
In the process for me trying to fix this problem I lost the choices during login to select GNOME.
I obviously deleted something.
I think I had it working and then I must have deleted something.
I wish I could retrace my steps but I've done so many things on my system lately I don't know what I did when.
I am using Debian SID and have been trying various DE, Cinnamon, KDE, XFCE (my base install), LXDE.
I thought I could run all of these and test them out to see what I liked about each one.
Looks like I'm trying to do too much on one system and have it all confused.

[GeneC]

Hi dan!

Sounds like you might have deleted (or borked) something necessary when installing Cinnamon?
Why not try just re-installing 'gnome-shell'. (I would add 'gnome-common' also).
That might work for you.
Nothing to loose.

[dcihon]

@Gene,
I did that and also gnome-session.
Looks like I have it back.
I could have sworn I tried that before and it didn't work.
Maybe with changing sources and all kinds of things I got it all screwed up.
Anyway it now works.
thanks
Dan