On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm > refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad > computer and a message says: > > Oh no! Something has gone wrong. > A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a > system administrator. > > I'm pretty sure this is due to a failure in the video drivers--some > gnome3 packages installed and the nouveau video driver is not > sufficient. And I am certain this problem happened when I tried to > update to the network-manager from wheezy on his Squeeze-based system. > I hoped some of you might help me think though the problem so I can > fix that machine, next time it comes to the office.
(...) Well, I've got that message under two different situations: - First, as you say, when there's a problem with the VGA card or driver that cannot enable 3D acceleration properly which is needed by gnome- shell to start. - Second, when there's an error (a "syntax" error) in "/usr/share/gnome- shell/themes/gnome-shell.css" file. When this happens, you can still login to "GNOME classical" mode instead and work from there until you correct the problem that makes gnome-shell to halt. What I've never seen is gnome-shell crashing because of N-M or a wireless related update :-? > This crash happens before GDM offers the list of users, so I don't > understand how it could be related to a config problem in a user > account. Right? Everybody says "check ~/.xsession-errors", but why? (...) Because that file registers the reason of the gnome-shell crash, so what does it say? :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k0gmrj$anh$1...@dough.gmane.org
