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

Fri Jul 27 02:52:15 CEST 2012

On 07/27/2012 02:34 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+At last !! I thought I was the only one...
+More from my side ;(...
+
+> Problems:
+> 1. Cannot skip in mplayer (said to be glibc problem)
+
+I think it is some problem im GTK sliders themselves. If I click in the
+middle of the slider to advance a full page, nothing happens, in several
+applications. For example, try rithmbox and push in the song time slider:
+it allows you to move the window (???) instead of skipping. Totem simply
+blocks. Curiously, in my case GnomeMplayer at least moves the slider,
+but media stops playing...
+
+> 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.
+>
+
+4. If I click on the corner X button from decorator to close the window,
+many times gnome shell hangs, no visible crash, just freezes.
+
+5. Many many mooore times nautilus just segfaults trying to open a window,
+or when I open a movie with totem.
+This was commented on a bug report, but I had not still the time to test
+the possible solution.
+
+6. GDM behaves weird. On one box it does not allow me to log in, just accepts
+my password and sits forever showing the dimmed bullet passwd entry...
+On others, when I log out the system thinks I'm still there (commented
+also on other post, here for completeness...)
+
+> 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).
+>
+
+If I kill X with ctrl-alt-bs, gdm restarts but still thinks I'm logged
+(no session menu for my user).
+
+> 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 use nvidia and intel on other boxes, so I think it is not driver related.
+
+> I'll try and use strace on GNOME shell + gnome-settings-daemon (volume
+> keys) next time one of them hangs again.
+>
+
+
+-- 
+J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com>        \               Winter is coming...
+