Re: fedora 18 gnome-shell core dumps before live system starts
Hi,
For the VM on CentOS I found a solution: changing the video driver
from the default "cirrus" driver to xvga, after that the gdm screen
indeed showed a list of users. Previously the error I got was
before/during the gdm so I never saw the gdm screen.
For the VM on Virtualbox I switched the displaymanager using
system-switch-displaymanager on the command line.
lxdm now offers me a username input field, nothing more.
I also used switchdesk to switch from Gnome3 to XFCE and that works.
Regards
Bram
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 05/01/2013 03:03 AM, Bram Mertens wrote:
>
> 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.
If all were working properly, when you select your account from the list
(assuming there's more than one account to select) there should be a little
drop-down list allowing you to select from all the DEs you have installed,
and defaulting to whatever you used last. Presumably, it says GNOME right
now. If you do see that, try changing to a different one, because the error
you're getting is very Gnome 3 specific.
If that doesn't work, the error might be in gdm, the Gnome greeter, that
shows the login window. It's supposed to be possible to select a different
one from a CLI, but I've never had it work; probably because lightdm, the
one I want, isn't supported. If all else fails, you can always use a CLI to
install a different greeter, such as lightdm or (I think) kdm and remove
gdm. Then, when you reboot, nothing starts that's part of Gnome unless you
either select it as your DE, or you run a program that needs it, and the
latter shouldn't get you that message. Not ideal, I know, but if nothing
else it will get you running until you can track down what's causing that
error. Good luck, and if you do find out, please let us know; that's one of
the least helpful error messages I've ever run across[1], and having some
idea of what it means would be a great help to everybody using Gnome.
[1]Possibly the least helpful was one used by a friend of mine: 1=2. Of
course, he was a genius[2] and he had the source code. And, to be fair, he
only used it to indicate that something unanticipated had happened.
[2]Look up Dan Alderson in Wikipedia for more information.
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