Don't know. Tried again a few days later and the GNOME 3 desktop loaded fine (just strained against my spare computer's feeble specs). Presumably some update in the last week fixed whatever the cause of the problem was.
If it crashes again I'll try the workaround. With effort going into stabilising unity, GNOME 3 looks fragile at the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798135 Title: gnome-shell crashed with signal 5 in shell_app_system_get_sections() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/798135/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs