fix a broken gnome desktop ?

[Ahmad Samir]

On 11/07/14 21:42, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following a recent kernel update I rebooted and can no longer use
> Gnome3.  I receive this error:
>
>      "Oh no!  Something has gone wrong.  A problem has occurred and the
> system can't recover.  All extensions have been disabled as a precaution."
>
> Usually there is no mouse after this happens.  A "return" returns me to
> the login screen and I can choose one of the different desktops from
> there, all of which work.
>
> I am loathe to yum remove, yum install.  The remove wants to take 554MB
> of packages with it and I'm not willing to gamble that I'll have a
> usable system afterwards.
>
> Anybody seen this before?  How did you recover from it?
>

Does booting an older kernel let you log in?


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Ahmad Samir