My gnome desktop has crashed

[Don Lewis]

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.