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

[M A Young]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Jon Masters wrote:

> 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?

It could be bug 810040 . Try removing the fprintd package if it is 
installed, as gnome shell crashes on many virtual environments if it is 
present.

 	Michael Young