Hi Ricardo,

plz could you confirm what did you deleted to make GNOME run again?
application_state file or the whole directory?

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

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>> please Ricardo could you attach the relevant debug info?
>
> I don’t have any debug info other than what I posted.  I didn’t look at
> the files, but I might be able to recover them from backup.

if it's not too much work on your side, this would be *very* helpful to
others

>> have you seen a related bug report upstream? (this is a seriuos bug,
>> isn't it?)
>
> I haven’t seen any bug reports about this.

having the debugging infos we should issue a bugreport upstream, I can
help if needed (I do not use GNOME but I could setup a VM to reproduce
this bug and report upstream)

thank you!
Gio

P.S.: sorry for the change in the subject line, at first I considered
opening a broather "subthread" concerning the (IMHO harmful) statefulnes
of gnome-shell and similar user *servicies*... but then I changed my mind

-- 
Giovanni Biscuolo

Xelera IT Infrastructures