Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 18 Beta (i386) running in VMWare Player 5.0.1 with a Windows 8 Pro (32-bit) host operating system. Description of problem: This morning (12-4-2012) at around 11:30 am PST, I ran a yum update command to update packages. The update completed successfully and I rebooted. After the reboot, Fedora boots as far as the desktop background before it stops. In other words, the desktop background displays, but the menu bar doesn't and I'm unable to do anything on the desktop. It won't even let me switch to a terminal. I didn't bother to keep track of which packages got updated, but before this morning, I ran yum update at around 5 pm PST last night (12-3-2012) without a problem. So, these updates became available sometime after 5 pm PST last night.
The cause of this issue has been figured out. Unchecking "Accelerate 3D Graphics" in the Virtual Machine Settings window allows Fedora 18 Beta to boot up properly in VMWare. This solution was arrived at on Fedoraforum.org in this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1618881#post1618881
Same issue is reproducible on a 64bit Fedora 18 Beta running in VMware Player 5.0.1. After unchecking "Accelerate 3D Graphics", the GDM was properly displayed. However, g-c-c Detail reported it utilizing LLVMpipe based software raster rather than GPU power. Running from LiveCD, g-c-c Detail reported it was utilizing Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D, which should means the host-system GPU. Thus I guess during the 12-4 updates, something broke the ability to utilize GPU power of GNOME Shell. Referring to updates-testing report, there's a new gnome-shell pushed on Dec 4: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-19509/gnome-shell-3.6.2-4.fc18 Though this update was quickly obsoleted by another push on Dec 11, the issue is still there, unfortunately: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-shell-3.6.2-5.fc18
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