Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:

> Timothy Sample <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories
>>>> around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account
>>>> (logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.)
>>>>
>>>> I even tried upgrading the user’s profile just in case is contained
>>>> incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn’t help.
>>>>
>>>> What extra bit of state am I missing?
>>>
>>> Do you have ~/.local?  In my earlier tests this contained binary
>>> notification data that when loaded would lead to a crash.
>>
>> I’m testing GNOME on ‘staging’ now, and had the same problem (GDM worked
>> okay, but I could not login).  I fixed it by deleting
>> “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/notifications”.  I left everything else in
>> my home directory as it was.
>
> That’s the one!  I moved ~/.local/share/gnome-shell out of the way and
> after that I could log in.  \o/

So I’d really like to merge that branch, but this GNOME upgrade issue is
holding us back.

Does anyone have ideas on how to address it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.