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kava

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Registered: 2011-06-10

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] gnome 3 failed to load

I installed the 8.19 release of archlinux on virtual box hosted by windows xp
and installed the guest addition
but when I startx
Gnome 3 failed to load.
error : This most likely means your system (graphics hardware or driver) is not capable of delivering the full gnome 3 experience

Now what else can I do ?

Last edited by kava (2011-08-25 10:36:50)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] gnome 3 failed to load

yeah there was a thread about this. For some reason, virtualbox wasn't capable of loading gnome-shell at the time. I am not sure if it ever got resolved. Search the forum for that thread and you might find a solution if there is one.

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome 3 failed to load

works out of the box

#pacman -S xorg-server virtualbox-archlinux-additions gnome gdm
# /etc/rc.d/dbus start
# modprobe vboxvideo
# /etc/rc.d/gdm start

enjoy your gnome 3 experience in virtualbox

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kava

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Registered: 2011-06-10

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Re: [SOLVED] gnome 3 failed to load

Thank you wonder.
it works!

zarcher

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From: Beijing,CHINA

Registered: 2011-11-13

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] gnome 3 failed to load

I find this thread from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125694

Thanks wonder first.As a newbie I got this problem too and I spend an hour to search a solution on google. Finally I ended here and running my gnome in VBOX now. But my Graphic Card GMA3100 is not very good, I am not able to have a fully functioned interface of Gnome3.

Last edited by zarcher (2011-11-13 15:34:09)