"Oh no! Something has gone wrong."

[Roger]

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