Gnome 3 & nVidia (Natty) - Oh no! Something has gone wrong.

[kevpatts]

I've upgraded to Gnome 3 on my Natty install on my MacBook Pro 5,1. I installed gnome-session and got around the .ICEauthority problem.

Now if I log into "Ubuntu Gnome Shell Desktop" it waits a bit and then it shows a nice graphical screen (with a picture of a sad monitor) saying:

Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover.
Please log out and try again.
Log out

Anyone know the cause of this?

[Grozzy]

I got exactly the same.
It turned you that the only thing you have to do is to add the command "gnome-shell --replace" to autostart at login.
To do so press CTRL+Alt+F1 to get to your first console, log in using you name and password, then type these commands:

cd ~/.config/autostart
nano gnome-shell.desktop

Then, in the editor, type this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-shell --replace
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Gnome Shell
Name=Gnome Shell
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=

Press CTRL+O and then ENTER (to save), after that press CTRL+X (to quit nano).

This will make so that the command "gnome-shell --replace" will run at login, because of some reason it doesn't.

Hope this will solve your problem!

[kevpatts]

Hey,

I found the issue by accident and it wasn't something I would have guessed! When changing settings to fix the .ICEauthority problem I had to change my "Auto eth0" NIC to DHCP (it was set in the old NetworkManager to a static IP address). To do this I had to modify the "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Auto eth0" file and set "method=auto" in the "ipv4" section and remove the other lines from that section.

This is what actually fixed the issue for me. It's repeatable also; if I restore the backup file I took it fails every time. I'll check to see if this bug has been reported and report it if it hasn't.

Thanks,
Kevin

[ontwowheels]

I got exactly the same.
It turned you that the only thing you have to do is to add the command "gnome-shell --replace" to autostart at login.
To do so press CTRL+Alt+F1 to get to your first console, log in using you name and password, then type these commands:

cd ~/.config/autostart
nano gnome-shell.desktop

Then, in the editor, type this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-shell --replace
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Gnome Shell
Name=Gnome Shell
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=

Press CTRL+O and then ENTER (to save), after that press CTRL+X (to quit nano).

This will make so that the command "gnome-shell --replace" will run at login, because of some reason it doesn't.

Hope this will solve your problem!

This worked for me, thanks!!

[Ratmatix]

I got exactly the same.
It turned you that the only thing you have to do is to add the command "gnome-shell --replace" to autostart at login.
To do so press CTRL+Alt+F1 to get to your first console, log in using you name and password, then type these commands:

cd ~/.config/autostart
nano gnome-shell.desktop

Then, in the editor, type this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-shell --replace
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Gnome Shell
Name=Gnome Shell
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=

Press CTRL+O and then ENTER (to save), after that press CTRL+X (to quit nano).

This will make so that the command "gnome-shell --replace" will run at login, because of some reason it doesn't.

Hope this will solve your problem!

Had the same problem as OP, Grozzy's solution solved it for me!

Thanks!

(Quote spam to bump because it works =D)

[doniking]

I have this problem on my opensuse 11.4.
I found that gnome-shell-extension-xrandr-indicator was the culprit.
Uninstalling it the problem was gone.

[legends2k]

I got exactly the same.
It turned you that the only thing you have to do is to add the command "gnome-shell --replace" to autostart at login.
To do so press CTRL+Alt+F1 to get to your first console, log in using you name and password, then type these commands:

cd ~/.config/autostart
nano gnome-shell.desktop

Then, in the editor, type this:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=gnome-shell --replace
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Name[en_US]=Gnome Shell
Name=Gnome Shell
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=

Press CTRL+O and then ENTER (to save), after that press CTRL+X (to quit nano).

This will make so that the command "gnome-shell --replace" will run at login, because of some reason it doesn't.

Hope this will solve your problem!

This helped me , thanks a lot!

[jbicha]

At least in Fedora when I get the error, sometimes the error was lying and I could just Alt+F2 to access my Gnome Shell which was working just fine behind the error window.

[MARP1961]

Strangely enough I used to have this problem, but it seems to have gone away (updates?). A second login attempt always worked.

Gnome shell is excellent and 'knocks spots' off Unity in my opinion!

[karthikeya.vecham]

yes it happened same for me pls help me out

its showing me a message describing:"No such file or directry" when i enter the cmd :"~/.config/autostart"
pls suggest me another way