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#1 2013-02-04 09:39:51

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[SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

SOLUTION @ POST #2

At some point within the past few weeks I've broken Bumblebee.  I am not sure if this happened after an update, or if I did something to break it unintentionally.  I will dump hardware specs, proof that daemon is running, installed packages, and errors below.  Based on the output of optirun, I assume it might have something to do with a misconfigured config file, since it tries to access nouveau instead of nvidia.

Hardware Specs:

# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 540M] (rev a1)

Daemon Confirmation:

# systemctl | grep bumblebee
bumblebeed.service          loaded active running   Bumblebee C Daemon

Installed packages:

# pacman -Q nvidia-bumblebee nvidia-utils-bumblebee lib32-nvidia-utils-bumblebee bbswitch bumblebee primus-git lib32-primus-git
nvidia-bumblebee 310.19-1
nvidia-utils-bumblebee 310.19-1
lib32-nvidia-utils-bumblebee 310.19-2
bbswitch 0.5-2
bumblebee 3.0.1-4
primus-git 20121217-1
lib32-primus-git 20121217-1

Primusrun error:

# primusrun glxgears
primus: fatal: failure contacting bumblebee daemon

Optirun error:

# optirun -vv glxgears -info
[43120.847658] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[43121.036876] [DEBUG]optirun version 3.0.1 starting...
[43121.036897] [DEBUG]Active configuration:
[43121.036903] [DEBUG] bumblebeed config file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[43121.036907] [DEBUG] X display: :8
[43121.036911] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: 
[43121.036915] [DEBUG] Socket path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
[43121.036919] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
[43121.143733] [INFO]Response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[43121.143753] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

[43121.143759] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[43121.143775] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled.
[43121.143781] [DEBUG]Killing all remaining processes.

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#2 2013-02-04 14:26:09

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

Which Driver is selected in /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf? It should be

Driver=nvidia

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#3 2013-02-05 04:49:38

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

nawitus wrote:

Which Driver is selected in /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf? It should be

Driver=nvidia

Strangely, the config file didn't specify a driver; it simply says, "Driver=".  I added in, "nvidia", saved, and rebooted.  Now I get a new error when running optirun.

# optirun -vv glxgears
[  608.997724] [DEBUG]Reading file: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
[  608.997950] [INFO]Configured driver: nvidia
[  608.997979] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[  608.997985] [DEBUG]Socket closed.
[  608.997994] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

So, I restarted the daemon and when I check it's status, it says, "loaded activating".  I'm not sure what to do at this point.

# systemctl | grep bumblebee
bumblebeed.service        loaded activating auto-restart Bumblebee C Daemon

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#4 2013-02-05 17:58:55

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

Did you try

systemctl start bumblebeed

?

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#5 2013-02-05 19:24:10

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

nawitus wrote:

Did you try

systemctl start bumblebeed

?

Yes.  It stays stuck in this, "loaded activating" state.  It doesn't matter if I restart the daemon either.

# systemctl start bumblebeed
# systemctl | grep bumblebee
bumblebeed.service        loaded activating auto-restart Bumblebee C Daemon

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#6 2013-02-06 03:06:00

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

What if I purge my system of all video based packages and then reinstall?  What types of problems would I run into by doing this?  Is it worth bothering with?  Most of the required packages are from the AUR, so there will be a few more steps involved if I go this route.


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#7 2013-02-07 20:28:33

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Re: [SOVLED] [Optimus / Bumblebee] "Failure contacting bumblebee daemon."

I am going to mark this as solved, since technically post #2 did fix the error message.


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