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Description of problem: After installing kmod-catalyst (on a fresh Fedora 16 install, updated), the wallpaper shows up with the cursor, but right before the login application pops, an error screen appears (fullscreen) that says something like "Something went wrong. Please contact your system admin." with a sad computer face (my screen is in french). When i'm stuck there, if I do alt+F2, login as root and enters 'dmesg', one of the last messages is : Nov 21 18:06:58 goudurix kernel: [ 37.887192] gnome-shell[1496]: segfault at 0 ip 04a6ced6 sp bf923140 error 4 in libc-2.14.90.so[49ed000+1a5000] How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 16 + set rpmfusion repos 2. yum update 3. yum install kmod-catalyst 4. Reboot - the crash fullcreen appears at startup Additional info: I tried to disable gnome-shell by doing this : dbus-launch gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'gnome-fallback' But it did not change anything.
I did a yum update, which updated ... a lot of things. But the problem wasn't solved. One more thing to add to the report : I could boot and do whatever I wanted with gnome shell before trying to use the proprietary catalyst drivers (and I need those =( ).
Yum update today, removal of kmod-catalyst and installation of akmod-catalyst (because new kernel version and no kmod-catalyst available). And no changes, same segfault with gnome-shell + crash screen.
Updated today (because new kernel and many updates available), and still crashing with the same segfault in the logs.
Today I did a 'yum remove gnome-shell', and I have access to the login screen at last after rebooting. If you want me to try anything to solve the bug, or if you need additionnal information, I can re-install gnome-shell.
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