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I'm using gnome 3.10 on ubuntu 14.04, with gdm as my default login manager. Also, numix-gtk-theme and numix circle icon pack.

For whatever reason, sometimes my system stops detecting wifi (even if it's already connected) and I can only reconnect upon rebooting. After one of those reboots, I logged in, but was presented with the grayish gdm background, without no further actions. All I could do (and I've done this extensively since then) was Ctrl + Alt + F1 and try some stuff out.

After some research, I noticed that:

  • startx worked at that particular session, but it was rather slow;
  • reinstalling, reconfiguring, both gdm and gnome-shell would do nothing;
  • the only thing that seemed to fix my problem was renaming /.config/dconf; after rebooting, it worked. Just now, though, I had to reboot again and the same problem happened.
  • I just tried adding a new user. It worked within the new user, but then I don't have any of the stuff I installed there.

Any thoughts? If you need further info, let me know and I'll edit accordingly.

Braiam
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radgeRayden
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It seems I've solved the problem. After a lot of tinkering and resetting my dconf several times, I started to look closely and noticed several things.

Although I don't have the logs (.bash_history doesn't save output, only input), what I know is that I used to receive something along

perl: couldn't find your locale. Falling back to "C"

when reinstalling variety.

which I ignored, since my system was already working with the language I'd chosen (despite not being fully translated, it was indeed set to pt_BR). I searched about it and reconfigured my locale several times - it didn't worked. Then, I realized I didn't even have my language pack installed. After reinstalling it, everything worked (even with changing at start enabled).

Yes, I know: it's really unrelated (it was my fault after all), but if it causes a complete failure for gnome, I think it should get an workaround.

radgeRayden
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