Hello,

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@inria.fr> wrote:

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On 10/31/2013 12:26 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> After a failed attempt to install the manufacturer's nvidia driver,
> my system (Fedora 19, with both Gnome and KDE, on a Lenovo ThinkPad
> T430) does not reach the graphical login screen any more, but
> instead ends up in a white screen with a frowning computer cartoon
> and the message
>
> "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem occurred and the
> system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator."

One solution I dound with difficulty is that Alt+F4 (I think) kills
the "frowning computer" and (at least in my case) leaves you with a
working system. Surely something to be improved in the UI....

Really? That's so funny.

Certainly it is the most useless error message I ever saw. It should at least indicate form which direction the error came from. Maybe the author of that piece of software felt it too embarrassing to reveal the source of this message.

Best,

Oliver

Oliver Ruebenacker
IT Project Lead at PanGenX (http://www.pangenx.com)

Be always grateful, but never satisfied.