Created attachment 521805 [details] ~/.xsession-errors Description of problem: This happens very often: After the todays morning updates (sep 07) having a heavy problem with gnome-shell-sessions: Each time I traverse the Activities button (screen top left), my gnome session dies with "Oh no, something has gone wrong...". I can reproduce this! It seems it has nothing to do with installed gnome-shell-extensions, because if I remove all extensions, I have still this behaviour. Creating a new user, this user shows the "Avctivities" drop down menu properly and starts the app if clicking on it's icon. But if I change for this new user the window theme by gnome-tweak-tool from default to Clearlooks (for example), then the gnome session crashes mostly too for this new user. By resetting the window theme I get rid from this bug. It seems something in my homedirectory is the culprit for this, but what? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.1.4-2.gite7b9933.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Very often, but not always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login into a gnome session 2.Touch the Activities button 3. Actual results: The session dies with "Oh no. Something has gone wrong" Expected results: The session continues Additional info: 1. I saw some errors in ~/.xsession-errors. I'll attach it 2. There seems to be a weird "self-healing" effect, because after some time (login, crash, login again, multiple times) I can click the Activities button and show the correspondent menu (the session continues)
Created attachment 521806 [details] The actual updates (from yum.log) The updates of today causing my problem (excerpt from /var/log/yum.log)
Getting rid of the described problems by one the todays updates: Oct 13 08:19:06 Updated: imsettings-libs-1.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:06 Updated: imsettings-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:08 Updated: imsettings-1.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64 or Oct 13 08:19:01 Updated: glibc-common-2.14.90-11.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:05 Updated: glibc-2.14.90-11.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:12 Updated: glibc-headers-2.14.90-11.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:16 Updated: glibc-devel-2.14.90-11.x86_64 Oct 13 08:19:21 Updated: glibc-2.14.90-11.i686
I want to withdraw comment #2 (wrong BZ#). My mistake!