Hi Everyone,
I thought I would try out openSuse, so downloaded the Gnome live CD. When X comes up however, there is just a screen saying “Oh no! Something went wrong. Please contact a system administrator”
Not the best start… what can I do?
Thanks
At boottime, in the LiveCD’s bootmenu, put “nomodeset” on the Options line. Let know if that improves things.
What’s the video card?
I assume you did not get to the first menu???
What did you do before this. Are you trying to install from Windows?? You have to burn to a disk then boot from that. Instruction are on the download page.
If so probably a bad download / burn
On 03/19/2013 08:56 PM, sugarat wrote:
> what can I do?
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did you check that you had a good download–like discussed here
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Download_help#Checksums
and, did you self-test the install media by selecting “Check
Installation Media” like you see here http://tinyurl.com/b856ekd
any error in either test is too many!
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:56:03 +0000, sugarat wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I thought I would try out openSuse, so downloaded the Gnome live CD.
> When X comes up however, there is just a screen saying “Oh no! Something
> went wrong. Please contact a system administrator”
This is a message from gnome-shell and may indicate your video controller
isn’t up to spec (or that the necessary drivers aren’t installed in the
live image).
Tell us a bit about the hardware you’re running it on.
Jim
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What hardware do you use ?
Booting with nomodeset has indeed brought up a Gnome desktop, albeit at hideously low resolution.
This machine is a Dell XPS One 27 all-in-one. The panel runs at 2560x1440 on an integrated Intel chipset. It also has an Nvidia chipset. In Windows, when I run a game it uses the Nvidia chip, or when I right click an application and click “Run with graphics processor…” to select Intel or Nvidia.
Many thanks.
The error screen that comes up seems very crisp, and does look like the 2560x1440 that the panel should be running at.
With both Intel and nVidia graphics hardware, this reads to be a hybrid graphic PC. I recommend you look at installing bumblebee and primus to address this. There is a thread here on the subject: https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/484188-setup-bumblebee-primus-opensuse-12-3-a.html … unfortunately I do not know enough about this to point you to the most salient post, so you may need to read through the entire thread yourself to obtain the most up to date / correct information for openSUSE-12.3 with hybrid intel/nvidia graphics.
Good luck.
Hi oldcpu,
Thanks for your reply. I don’t believe this is necessary in this instance. Bumblebee and Primus will be required if I wish to make use of the Nvidia chip to run a game for instance, but I can boot into Windows for that. The standard Intel card is just fine for desktop work, so all I need really is for Gnome to properly initialize in this instance.
Over the last few days I have run Live CD’s for Ubuntu, ZorinOS, Linux Mint and Fedora, and all of them have initialised the desktop environment fine with the intel card. It is only the OpenSUSE Gnome CD that is showing this error. If Fedora can boot Gnome at 2560x1440, then I believe OpenSUSE would be selling itself short if it fails to do the same thing.
Many thanks
I do not know enough to confirm if that assessment is wrong or right. But if I was in your shoes I would be cautious wrt any assumption that I would make.
Good luck in your efforts.
They maybe need to simply use the FrankenVidio that you have.
Really what bright bulb thaught mixing video chips would be a good idea …
I believe it a safe assumption to make that the OpenSUSE Gnome Live CD has a bug in it. To back this up, I can confirm that the Fedora 18 Gnome Live CD is able to load the desktop just fine. In fact, I have successfully installed a number of different distros on this machine, and it is only the OpenSUSE Gnome live CD that shows this issue.
not really what video driver you get with RH? OpenSUSE doe not include propritary driver by default ie it is totally and completely OPEN
What’s the best way of seeing what driver is in use? I will check
IMHO the best way is to examine the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file contents.