[Mageia-dev] Problem with gdm metacity again

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi J. A.,

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:42:33 +0200
JA Magallon <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:15:21 +0200
> JA Magallon <jamagallon at ono.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi...
> > 
> > This old problem has surfaced again:
> > 
> > .xsession-errors:
> > 
> > ...
> > Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
> > 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 get only the nautilus desktop, with two black bars on top and bottom of the screen.
> > If I launch a terminal, 'gnome-shell --replace' works fine.
> > 

I reported this bug here:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2628

I can reproduce it here on my x86-64 Mageia Linux Cauldron laptop.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> > Any idea ?
> > Can it be some personal setting ?
> > 
> > TIA
> 
> Digging a bit more, something is wrong detecting acceleration.
> In GDM log:
> 
> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Looking if /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gdm-shell.session is a valid session file
> 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
> gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
> gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
> gnome-session[4752]: WARNING: Session 'gdm-shell' runnable check failed: Exited with code 1
> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Session is not runnable
> gnome-session[4752]: DEBUG(+): fill: *** Getting session 'gdm-fallback'
> 
> This is for GDM's own session.
> The same happens for user.
> 
> Any ideas ? How can I check why this fails ?
> Its a netbook with Intel graphics, so it uses Mesa.
> 
> Will check on an nvidia system too.
> 
> TIA



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