問題描述
當我今天啟動我的機器時，我的係統日誌中收到了一些非常奇怪的消息：
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Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Startup finished in 266ms.
Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Starting Default.
Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 121.
Aug 17 18:58:15 Floral-Towel freshclam[782]: Empty script safebrowsing-43732.cdiff, need to download entire database
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel gnome-session[1355]: gnome-session[1355]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel gnome-session[1355]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel gdm[1232]: Child process -1352 was already dead.
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 121...
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Stopped target Default.
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Stopping Default.
Aug 17 18:58:17 Floral-Towel systemd[1349]: Stopped target Basic System.
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我在那個時候包含了一些其他消息，以防它們在某種程度上可能有所幫助。但要達到這一點，誰或什麽是“失敗的鯨魚”？為什麽他/她/它死了？這一切是什麽意思？它在我的係統日誌中有什麽作用？
我正在使用Gnome Shell和Gnome 3.16運行Ubuntu Gnome 15.04。
OS信息：
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid
套餐信息：
gnome-session:
Installed: 3.16.0-0ubuntu1~vivid1
Candidate: 3.16.0-0ubuntu1~vivid1
Version table:
*** 3.16.0-0ubuntu1~vivid1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.14.0-2ubuntu5 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates/main amd64 Packages
3.14.0-2ubuntu4 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
3.14.0-2ubuntu4~vivid1 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
最佳解決思路
在這種情況下，如果出現問題，”fail whale”是GNOME記錄的錯誤消息。它以Twitter使用的illustration by Yiying Lu命名，以顯示錯誤。
如果它已經死了，則意味著沒有足夠的GNOME運行來顯示錯誤。