Bug 986692 - gdm "Oh No! Something has gone wrong!"
Summary: gdm "Oh No! Something has gone wrong!"
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-21 16:41 UTC by John Ellson
Modified: 2015-12-02 16:05 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-12-02 02:54:16 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description John Ellson 2013-07-21 16:41:59 UTC
Description of problem:
The bug I'm reporting *is* the error screen with the message:
     "Oh No!  Something has gone wrong!"

It provides no context, no pointer to error logs or possible causes, and no way to cleanly get out.  Hitting return on the "Log Out" button just hangs the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.8.3-2.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot
2. (clearly there is some other precondition that GDM does not like, but I've no idea what it is.)
3.

Actual results:
GDM reports "Oh No!  Something has gone wrong!"

Expected results:
A useful error message that reports context, enables me to investigate, makes it possible for me fix and/or report a bug.

Comment 1 Steve 2013-08-02 20:45:33 UTC
I can confirm this bug. No gdm-login-screen ("Oh No! Something has gone wrong!") since kernel-3.10.

Comment 2 Steve 2013-08-04 06:39:45 UTC
I think this is a problem of (a)kmod-catalyst. John, do you have (a)kmod-catalyst installed?

Comment 3 John Ellson 2013-08-05 22:02:54 UTC
No (a)kmod-catalyst installed..

..and, respectfully, I think you're missing my point.   I'm not trying to report the underlying problem, I'm reporting the error message itself!

It a totally useless error message, in fact its worse that useless since it obscures any possibly useful information.

I want a better error message, then we can have a better look at the other problems.

Comment 4 Stephen Hatfield 2013-09-02 21:56:49 UTC
I have the same issue.  Sometimes I am able to hit ctrl+alt+f2 abd log in long enough to run init 6 or ctrl+alt+del but most times it requires the power switch off for a few seconds . . . 

I have those packages and also think it is associated:

akmod-catalyst-13.8-0.2.beta1.fc19.x86_64
kmod-catalyst-3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64-13.8-0.2.beta1.fc19.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-13.8-0.1.beta1.fc19.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-catalyst-libs-13.8-0.1.beta1.fc19.x86_64

I have been unable to update my kernel and those packages since:  

3.9.9-302.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 6 13:41:07 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

How do I get this to the right folks?

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Comment 6 John Ellson 2015-02-06 16:19:12 UTC
I still see this useless message in Fedora 21.

It doesn't matter waht causes the error.  Please just get rid of this annoying "Oh No!  Something has gone wrong!" screen and replace it with an error reporting mechanism with some useful content.   Like, what executable is reporting the error,  and some unique identifiers that can be tracked back into the source code.

Comment 7 Atro Tossavainen 2015-03-12 20:48:04 UTC
I just started using Fedora 21. This is on i386 (a 32 bit Thinkpad T60 platform). No wonky kernel modules from third parties, the graphics are Intel 945. Imagine my surprise when I first bumped into this error. I've never seen anything this bad on a Linux system, and I've been using Linux since 1997. CentOS 6 is rock solid on this platform. Now there appears to be something that LinkedIn does on the browser that triggers this, but of course it's totally impossible to debug. I am probably going to end up deleting Fedora and trying Ubuntu. At least it only freezes the browser for minutes at a time, but doesn't crash.

Comment 8 Leonard Siebeneicher 2015-03-24 10:21:52 UTC
Since I upgrade (Fedora 20 to Fedora 21) I was not able to get a working desktop with NVidia proprietary drivers (akmod / kmod nvidia drivers). I get message ("oh no ...") if I try.

Comment 9 Michael Abbott 2015-06-06 12:33:50 UTC
I had exactly this error message after running `fedup --network 22` from fedora 21 and rebooting.  Ok, fedup had warned me that there were dependency problems with kmod-nvidia ... but this is seriously not the way to do an upgrade!

It turns out that the workaround (in my case) was very easy:

1. Type C-A-F2 to get a console
2. Log in as root
3. Run `dnf install kmod-nvidia`
4. Reboot

I can see that the nvidia driver is a pain ... but almost everybody's got one, so I'm amazed to get this problem on a routine upgrade.

Even more remarkable: I can find no mention of this issue on the Common_F22_bugs page.

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lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
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