Bug#720115: gnome-core: gnome broken (both functionality and bluescreen) since switching to metacity
Christoph Anton Mitterer
calestyo at scientia.net
Sun Aug 18 20:06:56 UTC 2013
Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:3.8+2
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi.
Yeah... first sorry for reproting against gnome-core,... but I have hell no idea which component
actually does the mess.
Unfortunately compiz was removed from Debian (for whatever reason) and professional user
seems to be forced now to use the grandma click&go style metacity, which is in basically every
respect not usable as a poweruser... nevertheless.
So I switched to metacity and first two major functionalities got lost:
1) one cannot configure "Switch to workspace" keybindings for workspaces > 4 anymore
(WTF?)
2) Major functionality... well at least for powerusers, which GNOME doesn't really seem to
support anymore,...
One cannot bind the Super key anymore... e.g. every poweruser will probably open
the Terminal most... so it's the most reasonable thing in the world to bind that to a
single key which is close to the hand (i.e. not to some "media" key that some keyboards
have.
The same functionality was already lost with GNOME 3.0 for the Menu key
So a) please bring back both functionalities... people have more than 4 workspaces any
may want to switch to these via the keyboard,... and people also want to assign the
Super_L and Menu keys.
So much for the major functionality part...
... now on to the bluescreen (this is sooo disturbing)
Well I then tried to "convince" GNOME of using the Super_L key for my Terminal custom shortcut.
So I got into dconf (knowing that GNOME is targeted for stupid users and hides at least some
functionality that would make it usable in there) and manually set "Super_L" as shortcut key.
Nothing happened...
Then I saw that GNOME uses Super_L in some places and just <Super> in the others... so I set this.
Then I felt like being on windows... GNOME immediately crashed but gave me some kinda bluescreen,
telling "Ooops something went wrong"...
This happens always again now when I try to login.
So I tried for recovery...
dconf cli seems to be useless... regardless of what I tried it neither prints out anything nor
does it set anything.
Then I wanted to remove the custom binding:
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings ['/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/media-keys/custom-keybindings/custom0/']
But guess what:
~$ gsettings reset org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys custom-keybindings
(process:12814): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=ac4a96dafad33ca4628823d94862cdf5 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': Child process exited with code 1
It fails obviously... since dconf is some Windowsish registry binary blob (what is it that these guys are somking?)
I have no further idea on how to get back a working system.
Well... I guess there goes a lot wrong here with GNOME... any help in fixing the above
and making the whole thing at least a bit usable again would be highly appreciated.
Oh and I guess my comment about being a power user already implies that this is not about GNOME-sheel ;)
Cheers,
Chris.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii at-spi2-core 2.9.5-1
ii baobab 3.8.2-1
ii brasero 3.8.0-2
ii caribou 0.4.4-1
ii caribou-antler 0.4.4-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.16.1-1
ii dconf-tools 0.16.1-1
ii empathy 3.4.2.3-4
ii eog 3.8.2-1
ii evince 3.4.0-3.1+b1
ii evolution-data-server 3.4.4-4
ii fonts-cantarell 0.0.13-1
ii gconf2 3.2.6-1
ii gdm3 3.4.1-9
ii gkbd-capplet 3.6.0-1
ii glib-networking 2.36.1-2
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.8.1-1
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.8.1-2
ii gnome-calculator 3.8.2-1
ii gnome-contacts 3.4.1-2
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.4.3.1-5+b1
ii gnome-dictionary 3.6.0-1
ii gnome-disk-utility 3.0.2-3
ii gnome-font-viewer 3.8.0-1
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.8.2-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-extras 3.6.2-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.8.2.2-2
ii gnome-keyring 3.8.2-2
ii gnome-menus 3.8.0-2
ii gnome-online-accounts 100
ii gnome-packagekit 100
ii gnome-panel 3.4.2.1-5
ii gnome-power-manager 3.8.2-1
ii gnome-screensaver 3.4.1-1+b1
ii gnome-screenshot 3.8.2-1
ii gnome-search-tool 3.6.0-1
ii gnome-session 3.4.2.1-4
ii gnome-session-fallback 3.4.2.1-4
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-6+b2
ii gnome-shell 3.4.2-12
ii gnome-sushi 0.4.1-5+b1
ii gnome-system-log 3.8.1-1
ii gnome-system-monitor 3.8.2.1-2
ii gnome-terminal 3.8.3-1
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.8.3-1
ii gnome-user-guide 3.8.2-1
ii gnome-user-share 100
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-3
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.0.9-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.0.9-1
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.0.9-1
ii gtk2-engines 1:2.20.2-2
ii gucharmap 1:3.8.2-2
ii gvfs-backends 1.16.3-1
ii gvfs-bin 1.16.3-1
ii iceweasel 23.0-2
ii libatk-adaptor 2.9.5-1
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-2
ii libcaribou-gtk-module 0.4.4-1
ii libcaribou-gtk3-module 0.4.4-1
ii libgtk-3-common 3.8.2-3
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.8.2-2
ii metacity 1:2.34.13-1
ii mousetweaks 3.8.0-1
ii nautilus 3.4.2-2
ii notification-daemon 0.7.6-1
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2
ii pulseaudio 4.0-6
ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-1
ii vino 3.8.1-1
ii yelp 3.8.1-2
ii zenity 3.8.0-1
Versions of packages gnome-core recommends:
ii network-manager-gnome 0.9.8.2-1+b1
Versions of packages gnome-core suggests:
pn gnome <none>
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