[Mageia-dev] Video/X/GL/gnome-shell issues?

Fri Jul 27 02:34:00 CEST 2012

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
+> > I'm tempted to blame mesa to some degree, but no real evidence :)
+> 
+> There was indeed a refcount fix
+> (c3bc41011f9ffe648b7dd4915c6202b776cd1ab4) in mesa that I did not have in
+> my snapshot.
+
+I still have huge issues running GNOME shell in Cauldron.
+
+Problems:
+1. Cannot skip in mplayer (said to be glibc problem)
+2. Sometimes when I use volume up/down keys, the popup window doesn't
+disappear. After that, the volume keys don't work anymore. I can still
+switch the volume using the volume icon in the top bar. I can click
+through the popup window, but cannot see what is underneath it (really
+annoying).
+The volume key is handled by gnome-settings-daemon.
+3. Switching between apps or workspaces using alt+tab, alt+~,
+ctrl+alt+up/down makes GNOME shell hang. I'm currently avoiding
+workspaces all together, because when I switch between workspaces, GNOME
+shell can easily hang within 5 minutes.
+
+Usually I can unfreeze X by stopping and starting "dm" (gdm). Sometimes
+I have to reboot or shut the machine down completely (usually when the
+plymouth/gdm background is garbled).
+
+I've updated all the packages, running the latest kernel, latest
+pulseaudio, etc. As driver, I use nouveau driver. I'm guessing glibc is
+to blame, but not sure.
+
+I'll try and use strace on GNOME shell + gnome-settings-daemon (volume
+keys) next time one of them hangs again.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+