On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 04/20/2011 11:00 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Hey, all. If you're running F15 with updates and after a recent update > > you find that you keep getting the Shell's 'Oh no! Something has gone > > wrong' screen (informally known as the fail whale), > > This type of error can apparently happen for any number of other reasons > and GNOME Shell doesn't give you any more information other than a log > out button. Not very helpful if you want to report a bug or find out > what the heck went wrong. This seems a weak point that needs to be > rectified quickly I'm told that the conditions for the fail whale to hit are that anything controlled by gnome-session crashes more than once within a short time after session start. Generally, debugging starts by looking at ~/.xsession-errors to see what's crashing. (Someone else noted you can actually close the fail whale screen with alt-f4, to get a look behind it. Presumably this only works if mutter is still up.) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
