GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660409
Fails to run without gnome-shell installed
Last modified: 2011-09-30 21:49:42 UTC
Created attachment 197720 [details] [review] Check for gnome-shell before running gdm-shell session When GDM starts, it only checks that hardware acceleration available or not. After that GDM trying to execute gnome-shell even if not installed instead of fall back to metacity. In this case the user gets a blank screen without a greeter, and can't do anything. Checking for GDM was added in this commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/data/gdm-shell.session.in?id=4892c9447324f2248ce944f150abe3143f78eaa3 But unfortunately, it was completely removed in this commit: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/data/gdm-shell.session.in?id=f350f58c78551614d8c864921705f26aa2fffa18 I highly recommend to add back the original check to ensure that gnome-shell is installed before trying to run them.
Review of attachment 197720 [details] [review]: makes sense. Make sure you reference this bug and give a small description on why your making the change in your commit message.
Created attachment 197721 [details] [review] data: add back check for gnome-shell before running gdm-shell session I added a better formatted patch.
Thanks.