Re: Debugging the 'something has gone wrong' screen

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It can be caused by gnome-shell being unable to load.
In some cases, this is caused by buggy extensions.

In some cases, you can just Alt+F4 out of this "BSOD" window and 
continue working, but this doesn't always work.

Cheers,
Timur

On 04/19/2011 07:06 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> The 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong' screen is rather un-helpful from
> the point of view of debugging. I'm working on a live image for the Test
> Day on Thursday; the one I'm currently testing is very unstable on my
> laptop, and hit that screen three times within two minutes of testing
> (immediately on first attempted login, then shortly after the session
> started the next two logins, while I was trying to get the wireless
> connected). I don't know how I can provide a useful bug report, though,
> because I've no idea what the screen really means (_what_ went wrong?
> Why is it so unrecoverable that all you can do is pop up a BSOD and kick
> me to gdm?) or how to debug it. A guide would help :) thanks!

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