Hi, For the VM on CentOS I found a solution: changing the video driver from the default "cirrus" driver to xvga, after that the gdm screen indeed showed a list of users. Previously the error I got was before/during the gdm so I never saw the gdm screen. For the VM on Virtualbox I switched the displaymanager using system-switch-displaymanager on the command line. lxdm now offers me a username input field, nothing more. I also used switchdesk to switch from Gnome3 to XFCE and that works. Regards Bram On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/01/2013 03:03 AM, Bram Mertens wrote: >> >> Now I do get a graphical login screen but after I log on I still get >> the "oh no something has gone wrong". >> It is still trying to start Gnome 3, and gnome-shell is still getting >> killed by signal 4. > > > If all were working properly, when you select your account from the list > (assuming there's more than one account to select) there should be a little > drop-down list allowing you to select from all the DEs you have installed, > and defaulting to whatever you used last. Presumably, it says GNOME right > now. If you do see that, try changing to a different one, because the error > you're getting is very Gnome 3 specific. > > If that doesn't work, the error might be in gdm, the Gnome greeter, that > shows the login window. It's supposed to be possible to select a different > one from a CLI, but I've never had it work; probably because lightdm, the > one I want, isn't supported. If all else fails, you can always use a CLI to > install a different greeter, such as lightdm or (I think) kdm and remove > gdm. Then, when you reboot, nothing starts that's part of Gnome unless you > either select it as your DE, or you run a program that needs it, and the > latter shouldn't get you that message. Not ideal, I know, but if nothing > else it will get you running until you can track down what's causing that > error. Good luck, and if you do find out, please let us know; that's one of > the least helpful error messages I've ever run across[1], and having some > idea of what it means would be a great help to everybody using Gnome. > > [1]Possibly the least helpful was one used by a friend of mine: 1=2. Of > course, he was a genius[2] and he had the source code. And, to be fair, he > only used it to indicate that something unanticipated had happened. > [2]Look up Dan Alderson in Wikipedia for more information. > > -- > 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 -- 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
