fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 30 Apr 2013 at 13:54, Bram Mertens wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:54:14 +0200
Subject:        	fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live 
system starts
From:           	Bram Mertens <mertensb.mazda at gmail.com>
To:             	users at lists.fedoraproject.org

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to give fedora 18 a try so I created a new virtual machine in
> virtualbox (host is Windows 7 enterprise 64bit). I'm using the 32bit
> live CD but no matter what options I try after the fedora 18 progress
> bar I get a black screen followed by the blue background for a short
> while and then a window displaying "oh no something has gone wrong
> please contact your system administrator".
> 
> I've checked the media (troubleshoot check media and start fedora 18)
> and it reported no errors. I tried adding xdriver=vesa and
> troubleshooting > start with basic vide driver but I get the same
> result.
> 
> I opened one of the virtual terminals and I'm able to log on as root
> so some system is running, but I'm unable to tell if this is the live
> system or some anaconda or other installer shell.
> 
> /var/log/messages contains reports that gnome-shell core dumped and an
> abrt trace has been created. The only report I found that resembles
> what I see is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919669.  In
> the abrt report I also see "Process /usr/bin/gnome-shell was killed by
> signal 4 (SIGILL)" in the reason file.
> 
> Is there any other boot option I can try?  Is there a way to recover
> from the gnome-shell crash?  Perhaps force fallback mode?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Don't know about the windows setup of Fedora 18, but I just had 
my students to an installation of Fedora 18 32bit version form the 
DVD iso  on my classroom machines that have the 64 bit version 
of Fedora 17 installed. Last semester we did the same with install 
Fedora 17, when the machines were running 16. Might be that the 
DVD iso has some files that the live cd doesn't. I use the dvd.iso 
file instead of using the dvd, since it is faster, and don't have to 
make many copies, but it does work under virtual box.




> 
> Bram Mertens
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