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

[JA Magallón]

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.
>


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