Bug#646215: gnome-shell doesn't seem to start

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:01:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
 
> Your problems doesn't seem to be gnome-shell related. According to the
> log file, a lot of other applications also failed to start with a dbus
> timeout.
> 
> Could you try to test with a fresh user account?

Indeed, it does work when someone else logs in. Puzzingly enough, it
also works with my own user now without me changing anything. Dang!

> What versions of the dbus packages do you have (libdbus, dbus, dbus-x11,
> etc).

dpkg -l \*dbus\* |grep '^ii'
ii  dbus                                            1.5.12-1                       simple interprocess messaging system (daemon and utilities)
ii  dbus-x11                                        1.5.12-1                       simple interprocess messaging system (X11 deps)
ii  libdbus-1-3:amd64                               1.5.12-1                       simple interprocess messaging system (library)
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64                          0.98-1                         simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared library)
ii  libdbus-glib1.0-cil                             0.5.0-4                        CLI implementation of D-Bus (GLib mainloop integration)
ii  libdbus1.0-cil                                  0.7.0-5                        CLI implementation of D-Bus
ii  libdbusmenu-glib4                               0.5.0-2                        library for passing menus over DBus
ii  libdbusmenu-qt2                                 0.9.0-1                        Qt implementation of the DBusMenu protocol
ii  libnet-dbus-perl                                1.0.0-1+b1                     Extension for the DBus bindings
ii  libqt4-dbus                                     4:4.7.4-2                      Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libsmokeqtdbus4-3                               4:4.7.1-1+b1                   Qt D-Bus SMOKE library
ii  python-dbus                                     0.84.0-3                       simple interprocess messaging system (Python interface)
ii  python-qt4-dbus                                 4.9.1-1                        DBus Support for PyQt4
ii  qdbus                                           4:4.7.4-2                      Qt 4 D-Bus tool

Adrian