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@xxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > -- > 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 +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 14604313.846723 | EINSTEIN 11072023.359852 ROSETTA 7096923.600919 | ABC 15926538.031993 -- 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
