[fedora-arm] failure booting SFP XFCE Versatile_Express image in QEMU

[Jon Masters]

On 10/18/2012 03:05 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I'm running an F17 x86_64 host. This evening I downloaded the SFP XFCE 
> Desktop image and kernel for Versatile Express as described on the wiki 
> page, installed qemu-system-arm, and started it using the command line 
> give on that page.  It when through normal-looking kernel startup, 
> started doing a bit of GUI stuff, then it displayed an unhappy monitor 
> icon and the completely useless message "Oh no! Something has gone 
> wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please 
> contact a system administrator."
> 
> Has anyone else seen that? Any hints on what's wrong or how to fix it?

Oh! That sounds like GNOME Shell crashing. Hmmm. It ought to work. Did
you make any changes? Like to the runlevel or desktop session?

Jon.