fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts

Wed May 1 10:03:53 UTC 2013

Hi,

I reinstalled using the i386 DVD as suggested, I was able to go
through the entire installer and even the first boot screen.
Fedora boots but the end result is the same, after the boot screen the
screen goes black for a little while, then a blue background is
displayed and then the "oh no something has gone wrong" message is
displayed.

There were nearly 700 updates available so fully updated the box and
rebooted but the issue remains.

I installed the Cinnamon, Xfce and MATE Desktop Environments to test,
rebooted again since I don't know if the problem lies with the desktop
environment, the display manager or X itself at this point.
The result is exactly the same, I was expecting to get a list where I
can select which environment to use as described at
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/01/installing-the-mate-and-cinnamon-desktops-on-fedora-18/.

The release notes specify that systemctl should now be used to switch
the display manager
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Desktop.html).
 How can I list which display managers are available?
systemctl list-units --all|grep -i display returns only the Gnome
display Manager.

So I installed xorg-x11-xdm and system-switch-display-manager and
tried system-switch-displaymanger XDM.

CTRL-ALT-backspace doesn't seem to have any effect, so rebooted again.

How do I reload the display manager using systemctl or systemd?

Now I do get a graphical login screen but after I log on I still get
the "oh no something has gone wrong".
It is still trying to start Gnome 3, and gnome-shell is still getting
killed by signal 4.

How do I switch the desktop environment?

Regards

Bram

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> 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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