Bug#743543: gnome-shell fails to start : Unable to initialize Clutter

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort pochu at debian.org
Fri Apr 4 22:59:43 UTC 2014


On 03/04/14 19:17, Raphaël BENTEGEAC wrote:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.8.4-7
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I upgraded my debian sid with a classic aptitude upgrade, and gnome-shell since
> fails to start.
> 
> Nothing is effective, I tried reinstalling, deleting and replacing config files.
> Remove extensions packages/files doesn't work neither.
> 
> The '~/.xsession-errors' file and the 'gnome-shell --replace' command say :
> (gnome-shell:10366): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_strsplit: assertion 'string != NULL'
> failed
> 
> (gnome-shell:10366): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: The
> OpenGL version could not be determined
> Erreur du gestionnaire de fenêtres : Unable to initialize Clutter.

Do you have ATI graphics with the fglrx driver? If so this is a known problem
with them not implementing libEGL.

Emilio



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