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(a)gmail.com>
To: users(a)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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