from a couple of days I'm having a problem with Gnome3 gnome-shell. When I reboot / power-on the machine, after the GDM login the DE is stuck without opening gnome-shell. If I restart gdm from another tty, then everything works (GDM restarts and gnome-shell appears). So it hangs only the first time i login.
I was looking for more information on what is happening, but I can't find a gdm or gnome-shell detailed log. any suggestions?
Currently using Gnome3 PPA + (ricotz PPA) + ATI open source drivers
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I did have the same problem in natty with Unity not booting in but after I took the plunge and installed the ATI fglrx drivers the problem disappeared completly. Not sure if that would help you with gnome 3 but it might be worth a try
I did it using the terminal with the
sudo apt-get install fglrx
For some reason I do not understand it fixed my login issues issues and I was having exactly the same issue as you ie I would have to log in again to get a desktop which was (as you are finding ) a little annoying.
I would have preferred to stick with the open source drivers and do not do any 3d stuff to speak of but as this fix worked for me I stuck with it.
Let us know how you get on.
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