> On 14/12/11 09:18, Arthur Dent wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Urgent help required! >>> >>> I have turned on my Fedora 16 machine today. It booted quite normally >>> to >>> the >>> GDM login screen. When I selected one of my 3 users it started to login >>> to >>> the account as usual, but got no further than loading the background. I >>> CTRL-ALT-BKSPC'd back to the login screen and tried each of the other >>> accounts. Same problem. I can start a terminal session with CTRL-ALT-F2 >>> and login to any user account in that terminal - and it is from there >>> that >>> I am sending this (using Mutt). I have tried googling using a text >>> based >>> browser, (but that is quite hard work) and all I have come up with is >>> this >>> bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753666 which >>> describes my symptoms perfectly (I am also using the nvidia akmod >>> driver) >>> but there is no resolution for me in that bugzilla. >>> >>> Unlike that report I have updated nothing since Sunday (11 December) >>> and >>> it >>> worked fine yesterday (12 December). Here is an extract from dmesg: >>> >>> [ 39.204161] gnome-shell[1458]: segfault at bc955315 ip 42325db4 sp >>> bfadd520 >>> error 6 in ld-2.14.90.so[42319000+21000] >>> >>> Below I list a (long) extract form /var/log/messages. There is some >>> very >>> fishy >>> looking stuff in that, but I have no idea how to fix it. Please help me >>> to >>> get >>> back to a working gnome-shell! >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Mark >> >> I don't wish to appear desperate - but... >> >> ...I am desperate! >> >> Any ideas? > > It's a bit of a shot in the dark, but you could try removing the > proprietary nvidia drivers, and rebooting. It would be something like > > yum erase \*kmod\*nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia\* > > That would probably get you back to the nouveau drivers. > > If that doesn't work, there might be a hint in your /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Rich Well thanks for that. I was actually thinking about removing the nvidia driver. As it happens, I gave up on the machine for the moment and went to work. I therefore no longer have physical access to the machine. I can, however ssh into it. While I was wondering about removing or re-installing the nvidia driver I noticed that there is a new kernel available in yum (3.1.5-1.fc16.i686.PAE) so I did a yum update. This will of course cause the akmod module to rebuild the driver. I have rebooted, and the encouraging thing is that dmesg now has no reference to a gnome-shell segfault! Unfortunately I will not be home again until Thursday evening so I can't actually try to log in to gnome-shell to see if it has worked (are there any command line tricks to test if gnome-shell is working?). Thanks for the help so far. Any other advice, hints or tips will be gratefully received... Mark -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
