Gnome Shell extensions not loading, no error message available

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Ben Davis picture Ben Davis · Apr 27, 2017 · Viewed 9.9k times · Source

I have two gnome-shell extensions that don't appear to be loading after upgrading to 3.24. In gnome-tweak-tool they have a warning sign icon with "Error loading extension", and nothing else. I tried using looking glass (lg), and it just says "Error", and that the extension "has not reported any errors".

How can I debug the extension to find out why exactly it's not loading?

Answer

Ben Davis picture Ben Davis · Apr 28, 2017

I found the error in the systemd journal:

$ sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell

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