Hey guys, I’m mainly a KDE user but I want to have GNOME around as well so I installed GNOME using the YaST software manager. When I try to log in to GNOME it doesn’t get to the desktop, the screen displays an error (Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can’t recover. Please log out and try again, something like this: http://estrip.org/content/users/tinypliny/1111/IMG_20111117_083221.jpg ) then a window appears (if there’s a wifi signal around) asking me for the WEP key…if I enter the WEP key nothing happens the window just disappears since I entered the key.
That has happened to me, though without the WEP key request. We probably setup WiFi differently.
On my oldest system:
With the original Gnome 3, I got that message and then it went into fallback mode.
With 3.2 (I think that’s the version with 12.1), I just got that message and failure. Back in KDE, I opened an xterm and
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name gnome-fallback
and after that I could login to Gnome fallback mode.
With 3.4 (in 12.2 pre-release), I seem to recall that it automatically switched to fallback mode.
It seems to be due to the graphics card/driver not being adequate for whatever Gnome 3 needs.
On that same computer, desktop effects in KDE did work in 12.1, though I turned them off. I seem to recall that with 12.2, they were automatically disabled on the first KDE login.
It would be more clever to create gnome-fallback.desktop - which is missing in openSUSE - and put it in /usr/share/xsessions, instead of changing the default session in dconf.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=GNOME Classic (No effects)
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME with the traditional panel without any graphical effect.
Exec=gnome-session --session=gnome-fallback
TryExec=gnome-session
Icon=
Type=Application
OP, Take a look at ~/.xsession-errors (or rename it) before switching to fallback-mode or starting another wm… and tell us the model of your graphics card and the graphics driver you’re using.
This is not the first post mentioning this WEP key request. I have no idea if it’s a totally different issue … but it might. It’s hard to tell with Gnome3. Whether it’s a driver or a shell extension problem … or whatever else (?), all it says is: “Oh no! Something has gone wrong”.
Ok, I’ll create gnome-fallback.desktop. Not sure if I understand what do I have to do with ~/.xsession-errors but I think my graphics card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller and the driver is i915 (Intel Graphics)…
