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Date:      Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:09:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        bourne.identity@hotmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My gnome desktop has crashed
Message-ID:  <201608221909.u7MJ9qpD084190@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB097454F01613A6F711A31674F6E80@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>

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On 22 Aug, Manish Jain wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My gnome3 desktop on FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 has crashed. Upon giving the
> command startx, I just get an X window saying "Oops! Something has
> gone wrong". I could not find any error in the Xorg log file.
> 
> Can anybody provide me clues what might be wrong and how to get the
> desktop environment functional again ? I can send any log files
> needed.

Try looking at ~/.xsession-errors

I never had much luck with gnome3.  I initially had the "Oops!" problem,
and once I got past that, somehing (gnome-shell?) leaked memory badly.
I've been using MATE instead.




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