Description of problem:
 1. Install Fedora 18 Beta TC8 with GNOME desktop+development utilities on VMware ESXi 5.0 server (use RHEL 6 container for chosen architecture; I've done both x86 and x64).
 2. As soon as you reboot and finish the final firstboot steps you will be told "Oh No! Something has gone wrong!" similar to #860886.  The logs indicate that gnome-shell.desktop kept respawning to the point something stops trying to restart it.

This issue has not been seen with a F18 Alpha system upgraded over time (which should have pretty much the same RPMs).

The issue seems to be related to permissions & GNOME.  Using KDM/KDE does not hit the "Oh no" problem; starting GNOME via "startx" as root works but not as a normal user (who also sees "Oh no!").

If this is an unrelated crash reported by ABRT to the above I apologize in advance.


Version-Release number of selected component:
gnome-shell-3.6.1-3.fc18

Additional info:
libreport version: 2.0.18
abrt_version:   2.0.18
backtrace_rating: 4
cmdline:        /usr/bin/gnome-shell
crash_function: g_return_if_fail_warning
kernel:         3.6.6-3.fc18.i686.PAE

truncated backtrace:
:Thread no. 1 (10 frames)
: #5 g_return_if_fail_warning at gmessages.c:1012
: #6 g_str_has_prefix at gstrfuncs.c:2780
: #7 default_log_handler at main.c:272
: #10 dconf_shm_open at dconf-shm.c:63
: #11 dconf_engine_source_user_reopen at dconf-engine-source-user.c:76
: #12 dconf_engine_source_refresh at dconf-engine-source.c:57
: #13 dconf_engine_acquire_sources at dconf-engine.c:201
: #14 dconf_engine_get_state at dconf-engine.c:311
: #15 dconf_engine_watch_fast at dconf-engine.c:762
: #16 g_settings_backend_subscribe at gsettingsbackend.c:886

Potential duplicate bug: 841844