Re: Recent quarterly GNOME upgrade broke my desktop

On Fri, Apr 8, 2022, 22:32 Neel Chauhan <nc@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2022-04-07 16:28, Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> > Hello, dear community
> >
> > I've got non-working gnome-shell with the recent GNOME upgrade in the
> > new 2022Q2 quarterly port branch.
> > My laptop:
> > [pavel.timofeev@carbon ~]$ freebsd-version -ku
> > 13.1-RC1
> > 13.1-RC1
>
> I help maintain GNOME on FreeBSD. I'm sorry if it broke for you.
>
> > I don't mention drm-fbsd13-kmod breakage due ABI changes (?) as I was
> > able to recompile it against 13.1-RC1 locally and make it work (with
> > some visual artefacts for some reason)
>
> I have no issues with GNOME 42, on both 14-CURRENT and 13.1-RC2, but
> then I'm using the latest branch.
>
> > But I can't make that new GNOME work and switched to XFCE for now.
> > GDM starts fine, but once I login I get "oops, something went wrong"
> > message from gnome-shell.
> > I disabled GDM autostart and got this in my .xinitrc:
> > exec gnome-session --debug > .xsession-errors 2>&1
> > Then I started X with startx. The error file is attached.
>
> The errors I noticed:
>
> (gnome-shell:15744): Gjs-CRITICAL **: 09:23:03.928: JS ERROR: TypeError:
> method GLib.TimeZone.get_offset: At least 1 argument required, but only
> 0 passed
> _clocksChanged/<@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/dateMenu.js:343:46
> _clocksChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/dateMenu.js:342:25
> _init@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/dateMenu.js:309:14
> ...
>
>   were something I fixed a while back.
>
> A few questions:
>
> 1. Are you using x11/gnome-shell 41.4_2 (note the `_2` in the version)?
> This version fixes the GNOME shell.
>
> > Found something similar on debian mail list, where they suggested
> > upgrading to gnome-shell 42.
> >
> https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1849602.html
> > The reporter says it helped.
> > Not sure if I get the same error.
> >
> > Am I the only one who experiences this issue with GNOME?
>
> You could try updating packages again, or switching to "latest". It's
> only very recently that GNOME packages unbroke.
>
> I am using 13.1-RC2 on my laptop with GNOME 42 (really a 41/42 hybrid as
> of now).
>
> -Neel (nc@)
>


Yes, I have gnome-shell-41.4_2 installed on my system.
Switching to latest doesn't show any gnome-related pkg to upgrade.

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