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softtower

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Registered: 2010-01-03

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[SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Hardware: Nvidia NVS 3100M, latest drivers 260.19.36
Software: latest pacman -Suy

On startup, right after the login, X (or Gnome?) crashes and I see the login screen again.
After I disable compiz, I am able to use Gnome desktop.

When I start compiz via fusion-icon, it crashes everything again.

Has anyone seen this?
Any clues?

==== Update =====
I solved this by re-installing the same nvidia driver I had. During install it detected that the original installation "has been altered".

Last edited by softtower (2011-02-16 22:09:49)

Daerun

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Registered: 2011-02-07

Posts: 97

Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Have you tried to start compiz without fusion icon? I experienced some issues with fusion-icon in Fedora at this helped.

Last edited by Daerun (2011-02-15 15:28:11)

softtower

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From: NYC

Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Yes, on startup Compiz was configured to start automatically by gconf without icon-fusion. I am surprised nobody else is having this issue. After all, nvidia + compiz + arch isn't that terribly rare.

softtower

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Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Got some more data.

When I start it like this:

compiz --indirect-rendering --replace --keep-desktop-hints --sm-disable &

It crashes X instantly and I get X login.

When I do this:

compiz --replace --keep-desktop-hints --sm-disable &

I get this output:

compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing
compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

softtower

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From: NYC

Registered: 2010-01-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

Anyone?
I can't believe the latest pacman update killed Compiz just for me.

Daerun

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

I have nvidia myself, and have no problems

I am no expert, but reading this:

compiz (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Makes me thing about the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf file. Have you check it, just in case?

Last edited by Daerun (2011-02-16 09:54:16)

hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

What was updated before it broke (pacman log)?
Errors in xorg log?
If you have an xorg.conf, try it without. You could also check through nvidia-settings.

P.S.: --indirect rendering should not be needed, I start compiz with "compiz ccp", GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is listed enabled in nvidia-settings for me, no problems with nvidia+compiz+gnome

Last edited by hokasch (2011-02-16 17:01:00)

softtower

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Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

That's a scary thought: what if I'm the only one with this problem... :-)
Let me answer your questions guys (and thank you for replying).

First of all, I don't have anything monitor-related in my xorg.conf.d directory. Here is what I have there:

t510 ~: ll /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
total 20K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1K Aug 24 06:45 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  377 Jun 21  2010 10-quirks.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  443 Nov 13 10:36 10-synaptics.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  267 Nov 19 03:48 10-synaptics.conf.pacnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  107 Sep  2 19:39 20-nouveau.conf

Second, I do pacman updates maybe once a month. So I had 600+ MB of downloads and something like a hundred packages, including xorg itself. However, I do know that the kernel and nvidia's proprietary driver are both latest and haven't changed.

If I delete xorg.conf, arch will try to look for noveau open-source driver and will fail because I do not have it installed: it doesn't manage power well to be used on a laptop.

Looking into Xorg.log I see this:

[   102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[   102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[   102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
[   102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[   102.032] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
[   102.582] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU NVS 3100M (GT218) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

I will try to reinstall the same nvidia driver I have to see what happens.

hokasch

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Re: [SOLVED] Compiz crashes Gnome after pacman update

If I delete xorg.conf, arch will try to look for noveau open-source driver and will fail because I do not have it installed

No, nouveau is blocked in /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau_blacklist.conf provided by nvidia package. You do however have 20-nouveau.conf in xorg.conf.d instead of 20-nvidia.conf that should be there with a proper nvidia install...
Somehting with your video drivers is screwed up.