Hi
> Its both a black screen of death and a black box process. Very
frustrating.
>
> In gnome 2 when the session crashed one could still run apps (add the term
> shortut to nautilus, right click on the desktop and you have a term to launch
> a wm and a browser to look for solutions). In gnome 3 you're finished.
Well it is just a window, you can alt-f4 out of it.
tried that - you get windows up with no minimise bar etc. Close them
and you get the logout warning again... Something is borked - looks
like gnome-shell here.
PFJ