FS#68901 - [Gnome-shell] version 3.38.2 doesn't start

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pellegrino Prevete (tallero) - Wednesday, 09 December 2020, 03:26 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Saturday, 27 February 2021, 14:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Shell doesn't start, neither wayland nor xorg. GDM goes with it as well.
Sorry if I am not including the log since it has the like of a temporary build problem.

Workaround: downgrade shell to 3.38.1

Additional info:
* 3.38.2

Steps to reproduce:
# pacman -Syu && systemctl -i reboot
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 14:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 09 December 2020, 03:29 GMT
Logs?
Comment by Pellegrino Prevete (tallero) - Wednesday, 09 December 2020, 04:06 GMT
I just checked history on windowmanager.js, maybe the regression happened in this commit?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/96dc6d19dd30ec6dcac375de6811401012e77369
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 09 December 2020, 04:13 GMT
Radeon. What version of mesa?
Comment by Pellegrino Prevete (tallero) - Wednesday, 09 December 2020, 04:16 GMT
20.3.0-3
yes, upgraded minutes before the crash.
Comment by Thitipon Satthaporn (thitis) - Saturday, 12 December 2020, 04:39 GMT

Here is my fix:
1. Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf by adding graphic modules. In my case

-MODULES=()
+MODULES=(i915 amdgpu)

2. Rerun mkinitcpio

# mkinitcpio -p linux
Comment by Peter Maatman (blackwolf12333) - Sunday, 20 December 2020, 16:39 GMT
I experienced the same error in windowManager.js causing my gdm to not start. Gnome 3.38.2, going back to .1 fixed it for now.
Comment by Arsalan (afzalarsalan) - Tuesday, 22 December 2020, 07:30 GMT
Can confirm this issue as well and that embedding amdgpu into my initramfs through mkinitcpio seems to work around the problem somehow.
Comment by Pellegrino Prevete (tallero) - Tuesday, 05 January 2021, 12:57 GMT
I have made available the 3.38.1 PKGBUILD if anyone needs it.
https://gitlab.com/tallero/gnome-shell-68901
Comment by Pellegrino Prevete (tallero) - Friday, 15 January 2021, 13:54 GMT
For me, upgrading GJS solved the problem.

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