error banner popped up: Oh oh ... Something went wrong ...

[JD]

On 08/25/2012 04:00 PM, M A Young wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, JD wrote:
>
>> FC16, just run a full update.
>> Rebooted (with latest kernel).
>>
>> I got the error banner for the first time during boot, but just 
>> before the gdm greeting banner:
>>
>> Oh, oh. Something went wrong ....etc.
>>
>> Found that someone has opened a bug about this with redhat bugzilla: 
>> 819340
>> back in May of this year (2012).
>
> That is a rather useless generic error message (from gnome-shell I 
> think) which doesn't give you a clue as to what actually went wrong, 
> so the bug report you found could be a for completely different 
> problem. Try logging in at a text console (which you can get to by 
> pressing ctrl-alt-Function key, eg. ctrl-alt-F3) and checking logs 
> such as /var/log/gdm or /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see if they give some 
> clue as to what the problem actually is.
>
>     Michael Young
Thanx. No file in /var/log/ and sudirs thereof contained any hint of the 
error.

The bug I found was talking about the same experience and the OP did mention
the gnome shell.