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A., +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:42:33 +0200 +</I>>><i> JA Magallon <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jamagallon at ono.com</A>> wrote: +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:15:21 +0200 +</I>>>><i> JA Magallon <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jamagallon at ono.com</A>> wrote: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Hi... +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> This old problem has surfaced again: +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> .xsession-errors: +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> ... +</I>>>>><i> Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. +</I>>>>><i> Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager. +</I>>>>><i> ... +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> I get only the nautilus desktop, with two black bars on top and bottom of the screen. +</I>>>>><i> If I launch a terminal, 'gnome-shell --replace' works fine. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I reported this bug here: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2628">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2628</A> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I can reproduce it here on my x86-64 Mageia Linux Cauldron laptop. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Regards, +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Shlomi Fish +</I>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Any idea ? +</I>>>>><i> Can it be some personal setting ? +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> TIA +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Digging a bit more, something is wrong detecting acceleration. +</I>>>><i> In GDM log: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file +</I>>>><i> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Launching helper 'bash -c "gnome-shell --help | grep -q gdm-mode && /usr/lib64/gnome-session-check-accelerated"' to know if session is runnable +</I>>>><i> gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support. +</I>>>><i> gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256 +</I>>>><i> gnome-session[4752]: WARNING: Session 'gdm-shell' runnable check failed: Exited with code 1 +</I>>>><i> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Session is not runnable +</I>>>><i> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Getting session 'gdm-fallback' +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> This is for GDM's own session. +</I>>>><i> The same happens for user. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Any ideas ? How can I check why this fails ? +</I>>>><i> Its a netbook with Intel graphics, so it uses Mesa. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Will check on an nvidia system too. +</I>>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I did, and everything works fine. I even discovered that GDM looks different +</I>><i> when acceleration is available ;)). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> So these are two separate problems: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - Acceleration detection on some systems, from my limited tests, it works on +</I>><i> nVidia (32bit, will check 64 shortly), and fails on intel (mesa???) graphics. +</I>><i> This can be a bug report for gnome-session (/usr/lib64/gnome-session-check-accelerated*) +</I>><i> or for Mesa if it's it what breaks things. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - In full mode, gnome-shell from the user replaces gnome-shell from gdm. +</I>><i> But in fallback mode, gnome-shell can't replace GDM's metacity. +</I> +It's almost certainly a permissions thing. + +I'm not sure GDM registers itself with consolekit anymore. And +in-so-doing, will not get permissions on the DRI device and thus will +not be able to run the nice new shell. + + +If you run systemd then all should be well. + +Col + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited [<A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>] +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor [<A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>] + PulseAudio Hacker [<A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>] + Trac Hacker [<A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>] +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007834.html">[Mageia-dev] Problem with gdm metacity again +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007853.html">[Mageia-dev] Problem with gdm metacity again +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7841">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7841">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7841">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7841">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |