I originally installed Kde 4 with 11.4 and then later installed the Gnome 3 repo here: Index of /repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/3.0/openSUSE_11.4, and used Yast to install the Gnome 3 pattern. However when I try to login in to it I get an error box/window that says something like “Oh no. Something has gone wrong and the system was unable to recover. Please log out and try again”.
I’d like to fix it but even if I can’t it would be nice to be able to just remove it to clean up the system and recover the space, but I can’t deselect the pattern to remove it and I can’t just rip it back out by selecting the Gnome 3 repo and deleting everything in it because there are now a gabillion dependencies associated with it that I don’t understand.
Funny how that seems to happen as soon as you install some things.
Anyway, any suggestions on how to fix it?
Want anymore information? I will gladly tell you what I can.
Thanks.
Hi
When did you update to Gnome 3.0, it’s just switched to 3.0.2 earlier today…
Did you follow the how to here?
openSUSE:GNOME 3.0 - openSUSE
If you remove the repository and do a zypper dup it should rollback to gnome 2.x
Hi, thanks, a few days ago, no, and what?.
O.K. No really just type that in a terminal as root right? What if I never installed Gnome 2 in the first place? I actually have not done that.
I’ll check it all out.
Funny thing is I’ve done this twice. The first time I tried to install Gnome 2 afterwards and even though it seemed to work properly somehow that seemed to screw up Kde. No titlebar/window decorations and the keyboard didn’t work all with or without desktop effects, so I reinstalled the entire system.
Scott:
I had that issue yesterday after installing gnome3 also.
I moved my .gconf to .gconf.org and .config. to .config.org (and I’m not sure that this step was necessary, you may optionally skip it)
and then re-installed
gnome-shell-3.0.1-4.1.i586
gdm-3.0.0-2.13]
by using zypper in -f <package> and rebooting. If that doesn’t fix it, I’d then mv .config|.gconf to *.org and reboot.
You may wish to verify those 2 releases by
sudo rpm -qa | grep gnome-shell
sudo rpm -qa | grep gdm
as yours may vary from mine.
HTH.
Hi
Make sure the repo priority is at 98 and do another zypper dup. I would logout and drop to runlevel 3 do the update.
Malcom, thanks. I followed the how to and it works now. Habitual, I wasn’t able to use your method because I didn’t seem to have those files. I wonder about a couple of things though. The repo I had in Yast was updating periodically but Gnome still never worked. Is the one I’m using now going to as well? What’s going on with that and is one of them current and the other one not or are they just maintained by different people. You don’t need to answer these questions as I’m sure If I really need to I’ll find them out in the eventuality.
Gnome 3 is really bare. I hope it’s just because it’s new.
Why the Gnome 3 repo should have priority 98 when 99 is the default value ?
Yes… i get the same error too…
Nvidia 9400GT with nvidia driver version 280.13.
Back with some details: i`m on Tumbleweed under a 64 bit system and i have used the Tumbleweed repo for Gnome 3 with priority 98 and i get the same thing “Oh no. Something has gone wrong and the system was unable to recover. Please log out and try again”.
Out of curiosity i had installed G3 for the stable repo for 11.4, after i disabled the one from Tumbleweed, and still i get the same thing.
I had tried different methods including the one mentioned by Habitual, but with no results… Any other ideeas to help me? beside a downgrade to 2.32…