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

WarrenJ · # 2 13th November 2011, 06:50 PM

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

Andreu · # 3 13th November 2011, 09:05 PM

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

griff · # 4 14th November 2011, 05:58 PM

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