Below command helps to recognise "X Window System" group for update..
 yum groups mark convert "X Window System"

Checking by upgrading gnome and Xorg related groups

Including "X Window system" in groupupdate didn't help.
Need to run below command to get system up in GUI mode..

yum update `yum deplist gnome-shell | grep provider | awk -F: '{print $2}'| awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq`

(In reply to Ashish Shah from comment #4)
> yum update `yum deplist gnome-shell | grep provider | awk -F: '{print $2}'|
> awk '{print $1}' | sort -n | uniq`

As this fixes the issue(*), the dependencies in the RPM are correct, however for some reason "yum groupupdate" misses them. I'm not too familiar with package groups, so this might be the expected behavior and all dependencies need to be added to the relevant groups, but in any case it looks like the fix is not in gnome-shell. Reassigning to yum, whose maintainers hopefully have a better idea whether this should be addressed in yum or comps (or whatever I am missing).


(*) although we miss to update gnome-classic-session and dependencies, so we probably want that in the "GNOME Desktop" group as well

What packages are needed but missing after the update so the desktop doesn't work? Shouldn't this be all ensured through package dependencies?

I am not sure I understand what the problem in comment 10 is that would be fixed in the gnome-shell rpm.

gnome-shell has indirect library dependencies on libXi and gstreamer1 - are you saying that is not enough to ensure that these packages are included in the update ?

What is the suggested fix here ?

(In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #13)
> gnome-shell has indirect library dependencies on libXi and gstreamer1 - are
> you saying that is not enough to ensure that these packages are included in
> the update ?

#c10 clearly proves that the new version of gstreamer1 and libXi is needed in order to make the desktop work properly. gnome-shell could have indirect library dependency but without specifying the necessary minimal version.

> What is the suggested fix here ?

As stated in #c10:
 "Simply gnome-shell or another package should require newer version of those packages"

Just for an information, pasting the workaround publicly:

In order to restore proper desktop functionality following two packages need to be updated to new versions:
  gstreamer1 (gstreamer1-1.4.5-1.el7.x86_64)
  libXi (libXi-1.7.4-2.el7.x86_64)

(In reply to Karel Srot from comment #14)
> (In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #13)
> > gnome-shell has indirect library dependencies on libXi and gstreamer1 - are
> > you saying that is not enough to ensure that these packages are included in
> > the update ?

Just an additional note... Please note the in the described scenario only GNOME and "X Window System" package groups are being updated. As neither gstreamer1 nor libXi are part of the group, yum has no reason to update them (as there is no explicit dependency on new versions). 
If gnome-shell doesn't work properly with old versions of gstreamer1 and libXi, it has to depend on (either indirectly) new versions.

thanks for the clarification

Addressed in clutter-1.20.0-5.el7 and gnome-shell-3.14.4-38.el7.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2258.html