Bug 679601

Summary:	[NVIDIA ION] GNOME 3 Shell fails to start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bryan Stillwell <bryan>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-nouveau	Assignee:	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	15	CC:	airlied, ajax, awilliam, bskeggs
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Hardware:	i686
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Description Bryan Stillwell 2011-02-22 23:04:21 UTC

Description of problem:
While testing the GNOME Shell for the Fedora 15 Nouveau test day, I found the GNOME Shell fails to start on my HP Mini 311 with an NVIDIA ION graphics chip.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gfx_test_week_20110221_i386.iso

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the live CD
2. Login
  
Actual results:
After logging in as the liveuser (Automatic Login) the GNOME fallback mode was started instead of the GNOME Shell.  The following error message was displayed while logging in:

  A crash in the gnome-user-share-2.30.2-4.fc15 package has been detected

Expected results:
The GNOME Shell to load without a problem.

Additional info:
I tried logging out and logging back in as other bug reports have suggested, but it doesn't seem to work as a workaround on this hardware.

Comment 1 Bryan Stillwell 2011-02-23 00:23:38 UTC

Smolt profile for this machine:

http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_789a2468-8999-424b-8e94-11ec69a2c5c9

Comment 2 Bryan Stillwell 2011-02-23 02:45:52 UTC

I should add that my netbook uses the ION-LE chip instead of the original ION one.

Comment 3 Adam Williamson 2011-02-23 16:36:57 UTC

What happens if you run 'gnome-shell --replace' from a console?

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