Fedora 19: Gnome failure on dconf session-name update to gnome-fallback

asked 2013-09-12 13:43:13 -0600

sumitshining
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updated 2013-09-12 19:47:20 -0600

FranciscoD_
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Hi,

I wanted to use classic gnome so followed a link and changed the session name to gnome-fallback. As I did a log out and wished to login again, it fails. Some error like 'failed to load' is displayed. I tried setting session-name back to gnome using dconf from command line login using,

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/session/session-name '"gnome:"'

and

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name '"gnome:"'

But both fail.

What shall I do. Please suggest. Its urgent.

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Check the file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.session.gschema.xml for errors.

Amit Caleechurn ( 2013-09-12 14:21:51 -0600 )edit

Thanks Francisco. I used "dbus-launch dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/session/session-name '"gnome:"' " to fix it.

sumitshining ( 2013-09-17 01:18:39 -0600 )edit

If you are a stupid moron like me who spent hours trying to fix this, please note that the above will not work if you login as root first and then do su otheruser. Seems like you need to log in as the non-root user right from the start (assuming your root does not have dconf/desktop settings that is).

iforce2d ( 2014-07-29 02:33:42 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-09-12 14:27:02 -0600

Amit Caleechurn

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Once you fix the schema, run yum install gnome-classic-session and logout to be presented with the classic session (what you consider to be a fall-back session).