"Oh no! Something has gone wrong."
Roger
arelem at bigpond.com
Wed Oct 30 23:40:47 UTC 2013
On 10/31/2013 10:26 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After a failed attempt to install the manufacturer's nvidia driver,
> my system (Fedora 19, with both Gnome and KDE, on a Lenovo ThinkPad
> T430) does not reach the graphical login screen any more, but instead
> ends up in a white screen with a frowning computer cartoon and the
> message
>
> "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem occurred and the system
> can't recover. Please contact a system administrator."
>
> I can still do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to log into text mode. When I try startx,
> I get an empty screen with white or black background and a mouse
> cursor, extending over my two screens (laptop and external). When I
> try startkde it says:
>
> $DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to X server.
>
> The only error in /var/etc/X11.0.log is:
>
> Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
>
> In /var/log/messages, there are a bunch of lines like (I'm typing by
> hand):
>
> gnome-session[2658]: (gnome-shell:2949): Cogl-WARNING **:
> ./driver/gl/cogl-framebuffer-gl.c:561: GL error (1282): Invalid operation
>
> Could not find a solution on Google.
>
> I already reinstalled a bunch of packages, including cogl, gdm,
> gnome-shell, @kde-desktop, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau, kernel, but no change.
>
> Any advice? Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Oliver
> I remember running into this problem over time with Fedora 16,18 and
> 19 so did a fresh install using the standard nouveau driver, then when
> the system was working, followed the instructions on the Fedora page
> to install the nvidia driver.
> Apart from a slightly smoother movement of windows and terminals, and
> I usually have quite several open at once, I have seen no real benefit
> from the nvidia video driver.
I believe nvidia has released helpful code to the nouveau devs but have
no knowledge on the benefits or other.
> Roger
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