CentOS - Oct 2014 - OH NO, Something has gone wrong!

Hi all!

I'm setting up C7-64 as a VM using VirtualBox, on a Windows host.

as soon as I install the vbox Guest Extensions and reboot, when I log
in next time I get a white screen with a frowny face that says "Oh No,
Something has gone wrong!" and then "A problem has occurred, and the
system can't recover, please log out and try again."

Sounds like a VirtualBox problem to me, but was wondering if anyone
here had seen it and maybe knows what's going on.

Thanks!
-- 
---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
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    "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the
kingdom of
     heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 07:50:03PM -0400, Fred Smith
wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm setting up C7-64 as a VM using VirtualBox, on a Windows host.
> 
> as soon as I install the vbox Guest Extensions and reboot, when I log
> in next time I get a white screen with a frowny face that says "Oh No,
> Something has gone wrong!" and then "A problem has occurred, and
the
> system can't recover, please log out and try again."
> 
> Sounds like a VirtualBox problem to me, but was wondering if anyone
> here had seen it and maybe knows what's going on.
> 
> Thanks!
> -- 
looking around, I find this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705078 that isn't clear on
the exact cause, but it appears to relate in some way to Gnome. So I
logged in via ssh and did yum group install mate-desktop, rebooted, 
logged in with Mate, and it's fine.

So it is some sort of  Gnome weirdness.

-- 
---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
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               But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: 
                         While we were still sinners, 
                              Christ died for us.
------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------