On Saturday 11 February 2012 09:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:

Hi,
When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen
a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I am advised
to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The
weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal
X-screensaver appears. But when I try to launch an application I get
an black screen with the error message again.

When I boot in rescue mode and try to start X it fails.

I vaguely remember having run into this problem before, years ago, but
I don't know how it was solved


Does anyone have a clue?


Peter

sometime ago it happed to me also ... on FC 14 , I just removed the
file xorg.conf .... and restarted the system in single user mode and run
Xorg --configure


it worked fine

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Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in
> screen a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I
> am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs
> every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the
> ususal X-screensaver appears. But when I try to launch an
> application I get an black screen with the error message again.
> When I boot in rescue mode and try to start X it fails.

Jatin K wrote:
> sometime ago it happed to me also ... on FC 14 , I just removed the
> file xorg.conf .... and restarted the system in single user mode and
> run Xorg --configure

Peter: did the error message look like
http://estrip.org/content/users/tinypliny/1111/IMG_20111117_083221.jpg

If so, it’s a Gnome error message, not X, and the chances are that X
itself is fine.

Try creating a brand new user and logging in under that ID.

Are you fully up-to-date?

Hope this helps,

James.

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When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in
screen a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I
am advised to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs
every time. The weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the
ususal X-screensaver appears. But when I try to launch an
application I get an black screen with the error message again.
When I boot in rescue mode and try to start X it fails.

Jatin K wrote:


sometime ago it happed to me also ... on FC 14 , I just removed the
file xorg.conf .... and restarted the system in single user mode and
run Xorg --configure


Peter: did the error message look like
http://estrip.org/content/users/tinypliny/1111/IMG_20111117_083221.jpg

If so, it’s a Gnome error message, not X, and the chances are that X
itself is fine.

Try creating a brand new user and logging in under that ID.

Are you fully up-to-date?


Yes that is the message get.

So it is a gnome error.

I tried your suggestion but after logging in under the new user I
get the sameÂ* error.

I also looked for a file xorg.conf in /etc/X11, but there is no file
called like that.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Peter



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