Exception was: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found

[David Nielsen]

I am seeing the following error when I try to run gnome-shell with the replace option.

david@dawkins:~$ LANG=C gnome-shell --replace
    JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
    JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@:0
("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:8
'
    JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found'
    JS ERROR: !!! Exception was: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
    JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '0'
    JS ERROR: !!! fileName = 'gjs_throw'
    JS ERROR: !!! stack = 'Error("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@:0
("Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found")@gjs_throw:0
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js:8
'
    JS ERROR: !!! message = 'Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found'
Window manager warning: Log level 32: Execution of main.js threw exception: Error: Requiring Meta, version none: Typelib file for namespace 'Cogl', version '0.9' not found
david@dawkins:~$ Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.

Karmic on x86_64

gnome-shell:
  Installeret: 0.0.1~git20090702-0ubuntu0.1
  Kandidat: 0.0.1~git20090702-0ubuntu0.1
  Versionstabel:
 *** 0.0.1~git20090702-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your interest but gnome-shell is not officially available in ubuntu and bugs should go to bugzilla.gnome.org

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you need to install libclutter-0.9-dev to fix this issue