Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't recover.

"Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't recover. Hi I have a problem when upgrading to Fedora 16, I've tried several times and always get the same result. F15 to F16 upgrade with preupgrade, all right, I updated the whole system and when it finishes and reboots the system does not arrive to load gnome, I started well but when I get to gnome for me and I get a screen that says to me:  "Oh no! Something have gone wrong.A problem ocurred and the system can't recover. Please contact the system administrator. " I searched on Google and find no solution. No longer do I have updated several times and always the same, I return to restore the image backup of F15, I look for info, update and same thing, so I take three days. Can you help? You know why can this happen? thank you very much Andreu

# 2     13th November 2011, 06:50 PM

WarrenJ   Offline Registered User   Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Reading, United Kingdom Posts: 2

Re: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't reco Hi Andreu, I had this exact problem too. Looking around the forums, a lot of people are suggesting that it's an SELinux conflict with the nVidia drivers, or some such. This was not the case for me. After many fruitless hours, I solved it myself. I booted into multi-user mode (run level 3) successfully. Then I ran "startx" as root, and redirected the errors to a log file. This revealed that the Gnome Desktop Manager was crashing because of an unmet dependency on something called "Caribou", which i understand might be a touch-screen driver. Although I already had Caribou installed, it turns out that I had the 32 bit version; I run a 64-bit Fedora system so actually I needed the 64-bit version to match. My first attempt at installation failed because the 32- and 64-bit versions cannot coexist. So I used yum to first uninstall the 32-bit version of Caribou and then install the correct 64-bit version. Et voila! I now have a fully working Fedora 16 desktop, and have not had to revert to Fedora 15. Nothing to do with SELinux or using the nouveau vs nvidia drivers; it was entirely down to this one issue. It's a bug in the preupgrade process, I guess. Hope this helps. Warren Last edited by WarrenJ; 13th November 2011 at 07:42 PM.

# 3     13th November 2011, 09:05 PM

Andreu   Offline Registered User   Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 7

Re: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't reco Hi Warren: Thank you very much, this was my problem. Now I have upgraded to F16 perfect! Thank you very much, problem solved. Best regards Andreu

# 4     14th November 2011, 05:58 PM

griff   Offline Registered User   Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: 127.0.0.1 Posts: 9

Re: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has ocurred and the system can't reco Warren, THANK YOU, I owe you a beer, you saved me a lot of time.   For those of you with the same problem an alternate version of what Warren did: I actually had already fired up another consol (CRTL-ALT-F2) logged in as root   Get rid of the offending version: # rpm -e caribou-0.4.1-1.fc16.i686 Network manager had not started up the network, so: # ifup eth0 Then install the correct version of caribou # yum install caribou Thanks again, -roger

这个上面说的是fedora升级到fedora 16就解决问题了，可是我装的是fedora 18也有这个问题。？？？