Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

[Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>]

Le 21/05/2017 à 03:40, Fungi4All a écrit :
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.
> Local Time: May 21, 2017 3:56 AM
> UTC Time: May 21, 2017 12:56 AM
> From: anilduggirala@fastmail.fm
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> I had installed Windows 10 and Debian 8.8 (with LXDE) in dual boot
> (UEFI) and everything was working. I wanted to reinstall Debian, so I
> installed Debian again by deleting the debian partitions (I think
> correctly) using the Debian installer partitioner and choosing the
> Guided use largest continuous space option, this time I installed with
> the Gnome desktop environment. I am getting a Oh No, Something has gone
> wrong message, the system cannot recover' message after booting into
> Debian. Should I have deleted the prior Debian entry in the EFI
> partition?

No. The new installation deleted it automatically.

> does this have anything to do with this error?

No.

> Check the UUIDs of the system (ls -lh /dev/disk/by-UUID)

Irrelevant.
This is just a Gnome error, mostly due to lack of required features in 
the graphics subsystem. LXDE worked fine because it has fewer 
requirements than Gnome. Sometimes you just need to install non-free 
firmwares (often with a Radeon GPU). Sometimes you need to install newer 
kernel or Xorg drivers. Felix's answer instructs how to gather useful 
information.