Created attachment 598242 [details] Changed dateMenu.js from /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dateMenu.js. Search for "//!!!" and find my two changes. Description of problem: Unsuspending the computer today, I noticed that the clock on the upper panel was stuck on the date/time as when I last suspended it. Trying to restart gnome-shell ("r" in run dialog) results in me being left without a window manager. Logging in/out and rebooting the machine does not change anything. However, nautilus does start, and I thus manage to get a gnome-terminal. Starting gnome-shell from yields a backtrace (I will try to attach it after reporting this bug), from which I find the lines in the javascript that produces the issue. Commenting these out (see attachment) "resolves" the problem and lets me start gnome-shell, albeit without a working clock applet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-3.4.1-5.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time TODAY (Saturday 14th of July), never before. Might be related to the date? Additional info: In .bashrc, I have set export LC_TIME="norwegian" as I don't like the american date/time format (the rest of my shell is set to en_US.utf8, as the standard norwegian decimal separator "," messes with some programs, and I don't like it either.) Saturday in norwegian is spelled "Lørdag" with a \oslash. However, running unset LC_TIME before trying to start gnome-shell doesn't make any difference - and anyway, .bashrch isn't run before starting gnome-shell through whatever-GDM-is-called-these-days.
kyrre ~ $ gnome-shell JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0' JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '"gjs_throw"' JS ERROR: !!! stack = '"("Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input")@gjs_throw:0 ("%a %R")@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/environment.js:74 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dateMenu.js:213 wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204 ([object Object])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/dateMenu.js:171 wrapper([object Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204 ([object Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:145 ([object Object])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:239 ()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/panel.js:980 wrapper()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:204 ()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:145 ()@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:239 start()@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:218 @<main>:1 "' JS ERROR: !!! message = '"Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input"' Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Failed to convert UTF-8 string to JS string: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
Created attachment 598244 [details] UTF-8 in gnome-terminal Also note that there seems to be some utf8 problem in gnome-terminal, as running the "date" command (with LC_TIME="norwegian") yields the results shown in the screenshot. In a "raw TTY" (control-alt-f#) i get a square instead of the "ø". However, writing a file in emacs containing the string "æøå" with UTF8 (little "u" in bottom left corner) works fine. Finally, I had a lot of problems obtaining this screenshot, hitting alt-prtscrn would not give me an updated image (the window was as it looked like a few commands earlier, and hiding the window/flipping tabs in gnome-shell/etc. would not resolve it. prtscrn alone worked however.
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