Bug#769072: gnome-shell: GNOME Shell crashing with "Oh no, something went wrong"

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-11-16 09:13, Janusz S. Bien wrote:
> Quote/Cytat - Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> (nie, 16 lis 2014,
>> (I would guess neither nvidia-driver nor xserver-xorg-video-nvidia).

I was right :-)

> Although some of them has been installed manually, for the first time
> the nvidia packages just appeared after one of (dist?) upgrades. The
> first trace of them is from August:
> 
> Mon, Aug  4 2014 16:15:15 +0200
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] nvidia-libopencl1:i386
> [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] nvidia-opencl-icd:i386

Something OpenCL related pulled these in - I think we have changed the
dependencies since then on the OpenCL parts globally to prevent pulling
in bits of the non-free drivers just for getting a libOpenCL.so.1 as
some dependency (you can manually select to install the proprietary
ones, though).

> Can I remove all of the packages listed above?

these and glx-diversions and glx-alternative-*, maybe some more :-)
If something needs a libopencl1, use ocl-icd-libopencl1 instead of the
nvidia one.

> I'm still intrigued by the message which I definitely seen on the
> console during an upgrade, which was definitely about a nvidia package
> and which is not present in /var/apt/log. The problem appeared
> immediately after this routine upgrade. Perhaps by my actions I made it
> worst, but the primary reason was (is?) somewhere in the system.

I don't think any of the debconf messages used by the nvidia driver
would have been displayed in your case.


Andreas