[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#788388: cinnamon: Cinnamon crashes on loading, goes to Fallback, difficulty with use

[Paul Anzel]

Package: cinnamon
Version: 2.2.16-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I updated (via apt-get) to the most recent version of Cinnamon yesterday, and
the desktop environment will no longer properly load in my computer.

When I try and start Cinnamon, it will tell me that it did not properly load,
giving me the option to restart Cinnamon or to go to Fallback. Clicking on the
restart button keeps on bringing the prompt up, and so my only option is
Fallback.

In this case, I have great difficulty in using Cinnamon as the applications
menu is unavailable (instead I just get gray bars at the top and bottom of the
screen), though I can open files that are on my desktop without a problem, and
can pull open various programs via Terminal.

Trying to uninstall and reinstall the package did not fix the problem.
Strangely, I did not find any relevant errors in the .xsession-errors file.

Is there anything I can do?

Thank you for your assistance,
Paul



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cinnamon depends on:
ii  caribou                                      0.4.18.1-1
ii  cinnamon-common                              2.2.16-5
ii  cinnamon-control-center                      2.6.0-1
ii  cinnamon-desktop-data                        2.6.4-1
ii  cinnamon-screensaver                         2.6.3-1
ii  cinnamon-session                             2.6.2-1
ii  cinnamon-settings-daemon                     2.6.2-1
ii  cjs                                          2.6.0-1
ii  cups-pk-helper                               0.2.5-2+b1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.24.0-2
ii  gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0                   0.6.40-2
ii  gir1.2-caribou-1.0                           0.4.18.1-1
ii  gir1.2-clutter-1.0                           1.20.0-1
ii  gir1.2-cmenu-3.0                             2.6.0-1
ii  gir1.2-cogl-1.0                              1.20.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gconf-2.0                             3.2.6-3
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.31.4-2
ii  gir1.2-gkbd-3.0                              3.6.0-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.44.0-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.16.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.16.2-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.14.5-1
ii  gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0                        1.6.0-1
ii  gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0                 2.4.9-1
ii  gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0                       2.6.1-1
ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    1.0.2-2
ii  gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0                             1.0.2-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.36.8-3
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.105-8
ii  gir1.2-soup-2.4                              2.50.0-2
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.99.3-1+b1
ii  gir1.2-webkit-3.0                            2.4.9-1
ii  gkbd-capplet                                 3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic                    3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                            3.16.0-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.14.2-3
ii  gnome-themes-standard                        3.14.2.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.16.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.16.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.2-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libcinnamon-menu-3-0                         2.6.0-1
ii  libcjs0                                      2.6.0-1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.20.0-1
ii  libcogl-pango20                              1.20.0-2
ii  libcogl-path20                               1.20.0-2
ii  libcogl20                                    1.20.0-2
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.8-3+b1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.102-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.4-2
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.44.0-1+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]                     10.5.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.44.1-1
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0                            1.4.5-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1
ii  libjs-jquery                                 1.7.2+dfsg-3.2
ii  libmozjs185-1.0                              1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4.3
ii  libmuffin0                                   2.6.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      6.0-2
ii  libpulse0                                    6.0-2
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-4
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  mate-polkit [policykit-1-gnome]              1.8.0+dfsg1-4
ii  mesa-utils                                   8.2.0-1
ii  multiarch-support                            2.19-18
ii  nemo                                         2.6.5-1
ii  network-manager-gnome                        1.0.2-1
ii  policykit-1-gnome                            0.105-2
ii  python-dbus                                  1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gconf                                 2.28.1+dfsg-1.1
ii  python-gi-cairo                              3.14.0-1
ii  python-imaging                               2.6.1-2
ii  python-lxml                                  3.4.2-1
ii  python-pam                                   0.4.2-13.1
ii  python-pexpect                               3.2-1
ii  python-pyinotify                             0.9.5-1
pn  python:any                                   <none>

Versions of packages cinnamon recommends:
ii  cinnamon-l10n                         2.6.2-1
ii  gksu                                  2.0.2-9
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.16.2-1
ii  mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]   1.8.1+dfsg1-5
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           318-2

Versions of packages cinnamon suggests:
pn  python-opencv  <none>

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