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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0001875Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2014-11-21 13:582015-02-26 04:26
Reporterrhertzog Assigned Torhertzog  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status resolvedResolutionfixed 
Product Versionkali-dev 
Summary0001875: The default graphical session (based on GNOME Shell) crashes
Description

When you boot in live mode, the auto-login tries to start the default sessions based on GNOME Shell which immediately fails with a "Oh no, something has gone wrong" and a logout button which once clicked bring you back to GDM.

You can login with another session (GNOME Classic for example) by entering the username (root) and then clicking on the cog wheel symbol.

This has been reproduced with the daily image of November 17th and virtualbox.

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rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-02-23 15:26

administrator   ~0003102

My tests revealed that uninstalling kali-defaults fixes this issue (which was not reproducible in jessie). So gnome-shell doesn't like something that kali-defaults does... some more tests are in order.
rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-02-23 17:20

administrator   ~0003103

The problematic setting was actually in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/kali-tweaks.gschema.override :

[org.gnome.desktop.session]
session-name='gnome-fallback'

We need to drop it and modify the x-session-manager alternatives to use the gnome-flashback one.
rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-02-25 04:04

administrator   ~0003106

Other possible solution (to try): dpkg-divert /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/default.desktop into /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/default-system.desktop and /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-fallback.desktop into /usr/share/xsessions/default.desktop.
rhertzog

rhertzog

2015-02-26 04:26

administrator   ~0003109

Fixed with kali-defaults 2.0~1.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2014-11-21 13:58 rhertzog New Issue
2014-11-21 20:03 haider Issue cloned: 0001905
2015-02-23 15:26 rhertzog Note Added: 0003102
2015-02-23 15:26 rhertzog Assigned To => rhertzog
2015-02-23 15:26 rhertzog Status new => assigned
2015-02-23 17:20 rhertzog Note Added: 0003103
2015-02-25 04:04 rhertzog Note Added: 0003106
2015-02-26 04:26 rhertzog Note Added: 0003109
2015-02-26 04:26 rhertzog Status assigned => resolved
2015-02-26 04:26 rhertzog Resolution open => fixed
2015-11-09 13:44 Mr.Joe Issue cloned: 0002828