Gnome 3 booting into fallback mode

Shmaleb · #1 14th February 2012, 10:28 PM

I am running fedora 16 (64 bit) and it worked fine for the past month. today I powered off my computer and when I powered on again gnome booted into "fallback mode" it said their may be a problem with my graphics card or drivers but it used to run fine. HELP

nonamedotc · #2 14th February 2012, 11:32 PM

Please provide more information. Is this behaviour after some update? Do you have a dedicated graphics card? What are the hardware specs in general? This might help others to offer helpful solutions.

Shmaleb · #3 14th February 2012, 11:57 PM

it was after I removed the KDE desktop environment. intel core duo 2.1 GHz dualcore 3 gigs of ram.

nonamedotc · #4 15th February 2012, 12:14 AM

ah! If you had used yum to remove KDE, it is possible that it removed some libraries that were shared with GNOME. Whether it would result in fallback mode is something I do not know. The only solution I can think of is to reinstall gnome-shell.

yum reinstall gnome-shell

There could be other easier/better solutions though ...

Shmaleb · #5 15th February 2012, 12:49 AM

AH. nonamedotc you are a genius.
I typed "yum reinstall gnome-shell"
then it said "no package "gnome-shell" installed
so I typed "yum install gnome-shell" and viola!

nonamedotc · #6 15th February 2012, 01:28 AM

Glad it worked! Enjoy!