alternative status menu crashes gnome-shell

[Tim Cuthbertson]

Yesterday I installed gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu, and today gnome-shell failed to run. Dropping into a virtual console and running it allowed me to see the following output:

$ DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell
    JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: 'assignment to undeclared variable workViewInjections'
    JS ERROR: !!! WARNING: file '/<email address hidden>/extension.js' line 113 exception 0 number 156
      JS LOG: GNOME Shell started at Wed Nov 02 2011 18:54:17 GMT+1100 (EST)

(gnome-shell:2488): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_editable: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed

(gnome-shell:2488): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_get_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed

(gnome-shell:2488): Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_text_set_text: assertion `CLUTTER_IS_TEXT (self)' failed

St-ERROR **: st_widget_get_theme_node called on the widget [0x1cdbca0 StButton.status-chooser-user-icon] which is not in the stage.
zsh: trace trap DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell

Uninstalling the package gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu made gnome-shell start again. The only other extension I have installed is gnome-shell-extensions-native-window-placement.

gnome-shell version: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu version: 3.2.0-1~lffl~oneiric~ppa
ubuntu oneiric

[Tim Cuthbertson (gfxmonk)]

I found a report in gnome bugzilla for this issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739271

Setting a user picture works as a workaround.