Oh no! Something has gone wrong.

[jim1944]

Just did upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade. Everything seemed go OK with the downloads and the installation but when I finally tried to log in I got this pop-up message saying: "On no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." After typing in my password I can almost see the desktop before the pop-up appears and the screen goes otherwise blank.

I've tried repeatedly to log in and I've rebooted. Same response.

I have no clue as to what kind of problem occurred.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jim

---------- Post added at 10:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 AM ----------

Hang on. Found the common bugs issue with color profile. Trying the fix.

[Dan]

Search: "Caribou" on the forums. You probably got stuck with the i686 package in 64 bit install.

[jim1944]

Originally Posted by jim1944

Just did upgrade from F15 to F16 using preupgrade. Everything seemed go OK with the downloads and the installation but when I finally tried to log in I got this pop-up message saying: "On no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again." After typing in my password I can almost see the desktop before the pop-up appears and the screen goes otherwise blank.

I've tried repeatedly to log in and I've rebooted. Same response.

I have no clue as to what kind of problem occurred.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Jim

---------- Post added at 10:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 AM ----------

Hang on. Found the common bugs issue with color profile. Trying the fix.

OK, the fix specified in the common bugs did the trick - almost. It said to type

su -c 'chcon -R -t icc_data_home_t ~/.local/share/icc'

When I did that I got response saying file 'root/.local/share/icc' did not exist. So I used

su -c 'chcon -R -t icc_data_home_t /home/<my-id>/.local/share/icc'

That worked.

What that means to me is that this would have to be done for each user. Is there something I'm missing whereby doing it the suggested way would do it for all users?

Thanks
Jim

---------- Post added at 11:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:15 AM ----------

Another thought on this error: In this case the problem was caused by the gnome-settings-daemon crashing. I'm sure there are other "somethings" that could go wrong. In general if you get this, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong." pop-up, how do you determine what went wrong?

Other than searching the internet to see if someone else has already figured it out:-)

Thanks
Jim

---------- Post added at 08:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Dan

Search: "Caribou" on the forums. You probably got stuck with the i686 package in 64 bit install.

FYI: The Caribou bug has been fixed so those upgrading via preupgrade shouldn't hit it.

Thanks
Jim

[Akhil Jindal]

with me it is saying that "icc_data_home_t" does not exist.
So how to overcome that

[george_toolan]

What exactly did you do and which version of Fedora are you using?

[Akhil Jindal]

Its fedora 15.
I just installed gdb package and updated vlc